Imagine - Major wimax service upgrade

zom

I just had to click on very suspicious website which opened suddenly instead my normal homepage:

https://wprovisioning.imagine.ie/message/display

Nothing else could open and I don't even had a chance to search if that's virus or other internet scum. Nice. Congratulations to Imagine for First Class Customer Service...

daffy_duc

Thats actually pretty cool...
Would you rather they didn't communicate this to you at all?

watty

Yawn...

The ONLY thing that would make a major service upgrade on the 3.6GHz "Imagine Wimax" would be to fit external directional aerials on EVERY customer. No indoor aerials or mobile dongles at all. Zero.

Anything else is delusion.

Humorously trying to access https://wprovisioning.imagine.ie/message/display while NOT on Imagine Wimax gives:

Message

You are trying to access this page but you seem to have your cookies turned off.
You will need to enable your cookies in your "internet options".
Once this is done you will be able to see this important message.

Kind regards
WiMax Qaulity Control.

via https://wprovisioning.imagine.ie/message/no-cpe-in-session

They can't spell Quality
The redirect URL programming suggests a Programmer somewhere can tell if you using the "Imagine WiMax" CPE (Customer Premises Equipment, i.e. their Network) or Not. Yet gives an erroneous error message.

There may be some small upgrade that has a temporary effect till they add more customers.

If you can get get or have "real" Broadband (including other ISPs properly rolled out Wimax), get it, not "Imagine WiMax". If you need Mobility, go for 3G/HSPA from Meteor/eMobile/eircom, 3 Ireland, O2 or Vodafone.

zom

I never said that Imagine/Clearwire is better than cable internet connection. I just complain about poor Customer Service which best example is blocking internet with suspicious www asking for clicking like some suspicious links. Have seen some virus/trojan/malware www's looking quite similar...

watty

I understand.

I was only making a general point, not one aimed at you. The fact of what you get if you use a different connection would make the user more suspicous!

Very stupid!

dermy

Ok so i switch on the laptop this evening and I get this message.

I find this very alarming because to the best of my knowledge I have nothing to do with Imagine WiMax whatsoever. I am (was) BT, but I subequently received a letter to say Vodafone had taken over and that now I was a customer of theirs.

Whatever. What I know for sure is that am not and Imagine customer, and I have a hardline broadband connection.

So can anybody explain to me why I'm seeing this message???

jor el

You're going to have to ask Vodafone or Imagine that one. Strangers on the Internet aren't going to have access to your Internet connection to see what's going on.

omahaid

dermy wrote: »

Ok so i switch on the laptop this evening and I get this message.

I find this very alarming because to the best of my knowledge I have nothing to do with Imagine WiMax whatsoever. I am (was) BT, but I subequently received a letter to say Vodafone had taken over and that now I was a customer of theirs.

Whatever. What I know for sure is that am not and Imagine customer, and I have a hardline broadband connection.

So can anybody explain to me why I'm seeing this message???

Is it possible that your wifi router was off and your laptop connected to a neighbours unsecured wimax router? My neighbour has wimax and it doesn't seem to be secured (never tried connecting but the security doesn't appear to be on).

As an aside, I'd be very suspicious if I was with BT and suddenly recieved a letter/email saying Vodafone have taken over. That doesn't seem right

watty

BT still does Buisness/Wholesale but no retail.

Perlico taken over by Vodafone
All BT/IOL/Esat retail was transferred to Vodafone ages ago.

IBB, Clearwire Ireland taken over by Imagine (Gaelic Telecom).

Smart and TalkTalk Ireland taken by Digiweb.

Ice, CrossCountry and Amocom taken by Ripplecom.

Global Crossing taken by STT (ultimately Singapore Government)

Eircom taken by STT
Most Eircom masts taken by ThreeFold

eMobile is just Meteor, owned by Eircom, bought because earlier owners of eircom asset stripped sold eircell to Vodafone

Chorus and NTL taken over by UPC. Who is more than 20x bigger than eircom. UPC probably bigger than all the labels behind RIAA and IRMA, no wonder They didn't give into "three strikes".

O2 is Telefonica of Spain
Three losing millions here and is Chinese/Hong Kong "Hutchinson Whampoa"

Meteor/eMobile, O2 Mobile, Vodafone Mobile, Imagine WiMax and Three are technically not Broadband.
Tesco and AnPost use O2 Mobile infrastructure

I haven't been paying attention lately, so there may have been more stuff.

Note that Wikipedia is seriously out of date in this area.