New O2 Website

cupthehand

The o2.ie website is being upgraded on Monday 22nd of May. You will not be able to access email, web text or any other services during this time. The new website will be available on the 23rd of May.

The UK version o2 has been upgraded and as always the Irish one will follow along the same lines, preview....

http://www.o2.co.uk/

TerrorFirmer

Now if only Meteor would update their POS website....it's so useless, although I suppose in fairness it's not too bad on the eyes, but it's frequently not functioning correctly...:D

dermoto

The new version looks like something i would have made in 1st year in college. Not that the current one is great. still a bad design. Think web2.0 people.

Cabaal

dermoto wrote:

The new version looks like something i would have made in 1st year in college.

Agreed doesn't look very good at all, also agree meteor need to re-do their whole website...althyough I'm not holding out much hope as eircom's websites such and now they own Meteor

cormy

Agreed - that site is pretty disgusting.... for example: (shield your eyes)

http://www.o2.co.uk/games/

...but how do you know the Irish one will be as bad?

thund3rbird_

could this be co-inciding with a 3G launch as well??

was on to them a few weeks ago & asked about when they were starting 3G
guy would (could??) not say for def but hinted within a month or two

cupthehand

cormy wrote:

Agreed - that site is pretty disgusting.... for example: (shield your eyes)

http://www.o2.co.uk/games/

...but how do you know the Irish one will be as bad?

Well basically the sites were replicas of each other before so no reason to think they wont be the exact same again.

rogue-entity

Does anyone remember the old O2 sites, at the time when they all shared that same drab green layout. The Irish O2 portal along with the German and Dutch portals all upgraded theirs. The UK was the only one to keep what they had until now. The new layout is far far nicer then what they were using before, and IMO it is a nice layout. If the Irish portal got a similar makeover it would be nice.

Besides we could be unlucky and end up with a site like Vodafones, Eircons or meteors. (Could someone please tell those poor eircom webmasters how do design a decent site that does not break in firefox).

Thirdfox

rogue-entity wrote:

Besides we could be unlucky and end up with a site like Vodafones, Eircons or meteors. (Could someone please tell those poor eircom webmasters how do design a decent site that does not break in firefox).

Meteor site works perfectly with firefox, just to let you know

rogue-entity

Thirdfox wrote:

Meteor site works perfectly with firefox, just to let you know

I know, but eircons doesnt. I personally think that ISPs like eircon are getting "pursuaded" to push Internet Explorer and so they make sure there site is nice and IE friendly (screw the competition):rolleyes: Its a bit like how the makeitsecure site actualy doesnt provide good tips on keeping your computer secure, without pushing some commercial products that are bloated and ineffective.

dermoto

thund3rbird_ wrote:

could this be co-inciding with a 3G launch as well??

was on to them a few weeks ago & asked about when they were starting 3G
guy would (could??) not say for def but hinted within a month or two

I posted in another thread bout that. they will now sell 3g sim cards (USIM cards) to u at 150 euro a pop! and u have to be pay monthly. But maybe with the new site they'll launch their official 3g service. FYI, i have a nokia n80 with a standard GSM card and when in 3g areas (it say it onscreen) I get 3G transfer speeds (300K+ a sec) when sending MMS. I use Wireless LAN for the internet on my phone (How cool is that!) so i haven't used 3G yet for browsing.
I can imaging the price thou! current prices are 1K = 1cent. so downloading a song @ 300K a second would be 3 euro a second!!! totalling about 45 euro for a standard sized mp3! They really, REALLy have to revise their prices. On a related note, if your buying a new phone, Id recommend the N80, its the most advanced stylish peice of kit iver ever owned. And their are eircom WLAN hotspots everywhere, and some silly peoples unprotected ones!

Random

@dermoto
O2 will give you a 3G sim for free if you have a 3G handset and currently have a 2.5G card.

dermoto

ciaranfo wrote:

@dermoto
O2 will give you a 3G sim for free if you have a 3G handset and currently have a 2.5G card.

Really? I was in the o2 shop in waterford city near city square on thursday and they told me what i said earlier, 150 euro for the card. Maybe they were just idiots. Ill ring the help line and ask em, they shud have more info.

Random

You said "3G CARD" to them? They proberly think you mean the data card. Tell them you want a "3G SIM CARD".

Sam Vimes

ciaranfo wrote:

You said "3G CARD" to them? They proberly think you mean the data card. Tell them you want a "3G SIM CARD".

this is most likely. the data card is 150 and only for contract users

trudnai

Great, with the new O2 site everybody has to re-register him/herself, but during the registration procedure asks loads of questions and by the very end it says "sorry, MyO2 is temp. out of order, try again later" or something like that. I would have fire the IT staff if I were their boss -- sorry about that!

Mr-X

What do ya all think? very slow

fickeyminns

i just registered and logged in without any problem.

I did notice the home url has changed to www.o2online.ie so any bookmarks to the old site might not work depending on your browser settings and dns stuff.

Alun

Went through the whole registration process only to be greeted by "My O2 is not available, try again later" or some such crap.

nick23

Yep same here. Not too good are they?

cupthehand

Now there's slow and there's S L O W !!!! jesus this is terrible at least all my webtext contects are still there I didn't really expect them to be :rolleyes:

fickeyminns

contacts may still be there, but there looks as if theres a problem sending them. i sent a few messages half an hour ago but i know one of them at least hasnt gone to there person i sent it to

Random

They did say earlier it would be tomorrow before it's done. I guess we should give them a chance.

It is pretty bad form launching a new website that can't handle the load though

Just rang up CC there and they have a msg when you dial 1909 about the slowness ..

Mr-X

Can't Login With Firefox

the1andonly1

Its annoying though, since they said yesterday that the site would be available from 10 this morning, that changed to 4, and now its up but doesnt work. If they'd said it wouldnt be live til tomorrow, fair enough, but all this change about when its live etc, is just p**sing me off

Random

I've just managed to login and I'm using firefox

dermoto

Commander Vimes wrote:

this is most likely. the data card is 150 and only for contract users

Thanks guys. I definitely said SIM card, and had my n80 in my hand and said "I just bought this 3G phone and i need a 3g sim card for it" but they obviously thought I was talking bout the datacard. Espically because they only showed me data costs, and i had to ask them were regular call prices the same as usual or something. Ill call in tomorro so and give it another try!

On the topic of the o2 website, its really, REALLY slow, apparently, my second name"O Sullivan" isn't a real name The space must cause problems. even a " ' " wont get thru. Also, my IEMI No on my phone is typed incorrectly. No, its just a sim free phone.

Once they fix the speed of the site ill take a look and start work on that texting program again.

dermoto

the1andonly1 wrote:

Its annoying though, since they said yesterday that the site would be available from 10 this morning, that changed to 4, and now its up but doesnt work. If they'd said it wouldnt be live til tomorrow, fair enough, but all this change about when its live etc, is just p**sing me off

What wouldve made more sense would have been to launch the site o2online.ie, seperatly, and once its up and running, put a redirect on o2.ie domain.

IDM

Bah. Can't login from uni ... get the error: Bad Gateway - The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

Everything else is working fine, though, so for once I don't think I can blame the school's network. This happening to anyone else ?

Random

Of course it wuold have dermoto ... if only

And to the other guy, I think most people are getting those errors.

the1andonly1

What wouldve made more sense would have been to launch the site o2online.ie, seperatly, and once its up and running, put a redirect on o2.ie domain.

Yeah, that would have made sense, but you know o2! Anyone able to log int yet?i'm using opera and ie and get a "bad gateway" error everytime

blobert

IDM wrote:

Bah. Can't login from uni ... get the error: Bad Gateway - The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

Everything else is working fine, though, so for once I don't think I can blame the school's network. This happening to anyone else ?

I'm getting the same message, using Digiweb Metro.

No joy using IE or Firefox

Grr

Mr-X

Same here

cast_iron

Well the site is now not even allowing me to register.

This is absolutely inexcusable. What did they expect to happen when they force everyone to re-register?
They dont have the excuse of "unforeseen issues", as the UK site had a similar upgrade recently enough! Their web site management has always been nothing short of a disgrace.

nick23

Tried to register about half an hour ago..... the page is still loading... not impressed

drdre

it looks ****.the website is crap.they need to make it better.
when i try to register i get this bloody message
SorryMy O2 is currently un-available. Please try again later.

drdre

do you have to register again.how do i access my old account.please help

eirebhoy

I've just sent a text to myself from the site but I haven't received it yet. I'll let you know when I do.

the1andonly1

finally managed to log in using internet explorer, but for some reason the site wont let me log in using opera, hopefully that'll get resolved soon. sites horribly slow though :mad:

drdre

eirebhoy wrote:

I've just sent a text to myself from the site but I haven't received it yet. I'll let you know when I do.

yes do tell us, it might be amillion years later:(

IDM

It's working from home, although it's dreadfully slow ...

Sent a text to myself & it came through fine.

Any clever people have a new shortcut URL for skipping the login page & going straight to webtexts ?

youcancallmeal

It ridiculous having to register again :rolleyes:

Táck

when i changed over to three, i could still log on and send texts from O2. now with this re-registering crap i cant. bastids!!!

woody

Well I have tried since yesterday to register and get all manner of sh1t and still can't login....

HelterSkelter

Holy ****, what a bunch of wingers, can't you do without sending silly web texts for one day?

Táck

Unfortunately for me, it looks like my web texting days are numbered. Damn upgrade

wheresthebeef

the new o2 site looks crap. its like something a child would design. The UK one is definitely nicer.

Vok

Yes, I miss my web texts. But not as much as my girlfriend misses her email.

She signed up to the O2 web site a few years ago with her company phone, but she changed jobs and now has a Vodafone account. However, she was still able to log in and get her mail on her O2 account.

Until yesterday when she tried logging in and was asked for her phone number - which now belongs to somebody else.

Now I accept that, by rights, she's not entitled to the service anymore now that she's no longer an O2 customer. But I'm pretty amazed by the fact that O2 gave no indication - to me at least - that this change was going to occur. If I'd known it was switching over, and this scenario was going to occurred, I would have been able to go in and at least back up her email contacts and send out a new Gmail address for her to her friends.

Aside from hijacking somebody else's phone number to register with, does anyone have any ideas on to get access to this now inaccessible mail?

I looked for a contact number for general web site queries but evidently they don't supply that anymore.

Cabaal

Vok wrote:

Aside from hijacking somebody else's phone number to register with, does anyone have any ideas on to get access to this now inaccessible mail?

I looked for a contact number for general web site queries but evidently they don't supply that anymore.

What I'd be more worried about if I was you if that potentially the person that knows own the number could login and read all your girlfriends e-mails...could be wrong but it could happy....potentially.

woody

HelterSkelter wrote:

Holy ****, what a bunch of wingers, can't you do without sending silly web texts for one day?

Tis not that I want to pay my phone bill and view a few items on it

Ardent

Vok wrote:

Aside from hijacking somebody else's phone number to register with, does anyone have any ideas on to get access to this now inaccessible mail?

Without an o2 phone, you can still use your old o2.ie email a/c, just not through the web interface. Set up mail.o2.ie as the mail server in an email client, like Thunderbird e.g., and use the username and password you used to login to the site with.