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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Breaking News: 2nd Landline provider !

I have been dreaming to have a 2nd landline provider available locally so that I can switch from STC. It's been rumoured since some time that they are coming.

The rumour mill is now on high pitch and I wish my wishes will be fulfilled soon!

The reason why I want to try something other than STC: I feel their land line billing is not quite transparent. When things don't work the way it should irrespective of whatever we do, we tend to do some trial and error experiment. Trying a different provider is likewise.

I heard initially the offer is for WiMax for 2024/- per year  with charges as under with an extra year as promotion! That makes the monthly WiMax bill to somewhat a reasonable SR 85/- SR 119/- (I wish it to come down to SR 30/- someday!)

 

 

Service  Charges

Speed

CPE / Activation Charge    

3 Months

6 Months

12 Months

512 Kbps

420

565

1,105

2,085

1 Mbps

420

650

1,225

2,305

2 Mbps

420

700

1,325

2,420


Now to see for yourself, please check here. Related info here and here.



Saturday, March 14, 2009

DSL prices slashed


This might be no news for those watching the prices and seeing the advt. Still, I came across many among my circle who are not aware of the new reduced price from STC. This post thus is for them as well as for myself, for it is so tedious at times to browse the STC site to get the information you look for. 

The following is from this page in the STC site.

Description of service:
Prospects for a comprehensive DSL service allows the customer access to the service of the prospects for DSL, Internet service and collectively, through one bill, so as to integrate the prospects for DSL service salaries and wages Internet service invoice Phone customer, with the full support of after-sale services.

Benefits:
• We offer you the prospects for DSL service and the Internet in an integrated manner, it cost the trouble yourself thinking in the search for the participation of Internet service with you the prospects for a comprehensive DSL.
• You are dealing with only one hand and a (telephone).
One bill, there is no need now to pay bills for more than one point, it will be one bill, phone bill combining all the wages required.
• Integrated support for after-sales maintenance when there is no problem for you, you can contact the Centre for Customer Care 907 offers you all the support officer you want, and if required by the maintenance technician to visit your site.


Wages

Founded: 300 riyals (paid for once).
Monthly Subscription:

Monthly Charges

Installation Fees Once at Installation

Connection

SR 99

SR 300

Up to 128 Kbps

SR 149

Up to 256 Kbps

SR 199

Up to 512 Kbps

SR 211

Up to 1 Mbps

SR 222

Up to 2 Mbps

SR 244

Up to 4 Mbps

SR 555

DSL Max

(Up to 20 Mbps)




Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Sending mail while connected via mobily connect

Setting up an email account in outlook (or any email client) for an STC DSL connection or Mobily Wimax is straight forward. But with mobily connect, it is not so obvious.

I googled a lot to find out the smtp settings for mobily connect, but seems the tunnel is long as I haven't seen the light yet!

But the googling took me to this page where a workaround is describe and it works like a charm. The stunnel.conf I used is different than the one described in the page. I used the following:

client=yes
[smtp]
accept = 25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465


Please note to keep the
client=yes
line at the very beginning of the .conf file.

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Surviving in Riyadh since 1993! Love to see smiling faces around and beyond! Contributing my tiny share around!