Re: modem settings for bigpond

2011-05-06 Thread Rob Davies
Afternoon, Non Standard not really, I would not treat this as gospel?? Bigponds home page provides the settings for DNS and Preferred ADSL Encapsulation Method PPPoE??or A etc... You will run into issues with your primary LAN, with netmask as such 239.255.255.250? DNS Primary is correct and

Re: modem settings for bigpond

2011-05-06 Thread James / Hans Kunz
hello Rob thanks for your opinion i started with using the manufacturers (dynalink new zealand) settings but no go at all i tried all sorts of settings before i approached wamug most successful was the wa specific dns number, upnp i just left as is, i have a look at it when i'm at the modem

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Carlo Was curious on this part, and meant to ask. Did you have Applecare with any (or one of) your computers? Kind regards Daniel On 5/5/11 5:43 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stephen, I too would recommend a Time Capsule, and have in fact done so to at least four satisfied

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread Morgan Manypeney
WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au On 6 May 2011, at 21:10, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Carlo Was curious on this part, and meant to ask. Did you have Applecare with any (or one of) your computers? Kind regards Daniel On 5/5/11 5:43 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stephen, I too would

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread cm
Hi Daniel, That was the surprising part. I was seeking to pay for the repair and the the Time Capsule was for quite some time not covered by any warranty, yet the replacement and the data transfer was done for free. I do not have AppleCare on any of my current products though I bought my

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread Daniel Kerr
Interesting. You might have gotten lucky or if the laptop for your daughter was in your name with AppleCare (and was still running) then that may have covered the Tine Capsule. (if all within the same time period). I have a feeling I read that Airports etc are actually covered under the

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread cm
No. AppleCare was definitely expired. The MacBook was purchased in 2006 an the Time Capsule replacement was earlier this year. One possibility is that they confused it with the Time Capsule that I bought more recently but I did clearly tell the Genius Bar guy that I had purchase the Time

Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-06 Thread Daniel Kerr
Arr well, just one of life mysteries,..lol ;) Was just curious really. It's always interesting because it makes you wonder why one person's item will get replaced yet someone else with the exact same model doesn't. If it's consistent then it's easy to follow. It's where it isn't that makes it

iPads for Schools

2011-05-06 Thread Glenn Nicholas
I'm wondering if anyone has information that would help a primary school decide whether to equip students with a laptop or an iPad. Personally I think an iPad would not be as useful, but would love to know of any research/resources on this topic. Glenn Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group