How many M1122 are there in NZ

[Craig Whitmore]

Hi there

Does anyone know in NZ how many M1122's where ever sold in NZ..
Over the last couple of years I had at least 500+ emails like the below one.

"I have an m1122 router that appears to be down - we had a power cut and I'm
thinking that the power has damaged it when it came back on (the router
power switch on the routher was left on during the blackout).

The red dsl light is now permanently on which I understand signals a fault -
there's no connection. Is the router physically damaged or can it be reset
somehow?"

Yes I know it's easy to fix these (upload the latest firmware with the
upgrader program and the problem goes away), but I wonder how much money
people have paid others (like Altair Systems and Datacom Engineering which
fix them now and others in the past to fix this exact problem which can be
fixed with newer software).

Paying $55+ for someone to look at a modem with a known fault to just put
newer software on it? What do you think?

I (personally) think Nokia should make customers aware of this problem and
publicly put the software on their website so people can fix their own
M1122's


Thanks
Craig

[Chris Smith]

Hi Craig,

I have a Nokia M1122 which I run in PPTP half-bridge mode and have had
no problems what so ever with it. Still running the firmware that came
with it when we got it.

I run m0n0wall (freebsd based firewall/router) behind it connecting with
PPTP. The systems have survived many powercuts and there is no surge
protection enabled on them.

Regards,
Chris.

[Keith & Deby]

A huge Hear Hear to that!!!
6 or 7 yrs ago I had a big dust up with Nokia on that and similar issues,
before I started to get crappy with them, Consumer Guarantees Act etc etc..
I asked 'friendly questions of the techies, what sort of pay they gave, what
formal qualifications , ever worked on a Cisco. They paid crap, no
qualifications never seen a Cisco... I don't knock the Techies but I do
knock Nokia...From memory I think it was Data Com (top of Khyber pass in
Auckland) who where the 'agents' ...from the info I gleaned it seems as if
Nokia had 'dumped' these on the NZ market, along with the 500 series with a
next to nothing service budget, using Telecom as a marketing medium.
The agents couldn't get any good info out of Nokia, It seems NZ and maybe 1
other country are the only ones who had the m1122 and 500.
The 500 had bad over heating probs due to case design, in the States I
believe it was also available under diff model # and case.
I was also asked if they could use my research figures on over heating (well
outside advertised operating temps) or further investigations...they did
after some prodding admit knowledge of overheating.
Someware here I still have copies of the emails over several months
pertaining to the above, and another old member of this list can certainly
verify much of the above



Have a Nice Day
Steptoe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Whitmore" <***@orcon.net.nz>
To: <***@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: How many M1122 are there in NZ

Post by Craig Whitmore
Hi there
Does anyone know in NZ how many M1122's where ever sold in NZ..
Over the last couple of years I had at least 500+ emails like the below one.
"I have an m1122 router that appears to be down - we had a power cut and I'm
thinking that the power has damaged it when it came back on (the router
power switch on the routher was left on during the blackout).
The red dsl light is now permanently on which I understand signals a fault -
there's no connection. Is the router physically damaged or can it be reset
somehow?"
Yes I know it's easy to fix these (upload the latest firmware with the
upgrader program and the problem goes away), but I wonder how much money
people have paid others (like Altair Systems and Datacom Engineering which
fix them now and others in the past to fix this exact problem which can be
fixed with newer software).
Paying $55+ for someone to look at a modem with a known fault to just put
newer software on it? What do you think?
I (personally) think Nokia should make customers aware of this problem and
publicly put the software on their website so people can fix their own
M1122's
Thanks
Craig
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