Sprint is dumb

[proud gonzo]

I keep trying to call my parents and it says "Network busy. Please retry."



bastards.

[proud gonzo]

and apparently incoming calls don't work either because now i have a voicemail and it won't even let me listen to THAT. :mad:

[proud gonzo]

anyone else having cellphone problems??

[sanantoniosooner]

I was going to reply in this thread, but it looks like you got it covered.

[mdklatt]

Maybe Sprint is tied in with the OU email server. :mad:

[BajaOklahoma]

Paid any phone bills lately?

[proud gonzo]

i've been getting that same message for an hour. i'm getting mad.

[proud gonzo]

Paid any phone bills lately? no, but my dad has :P

[yermom]

the most problems i've had calling any of my friends was with the one that has Sprint

[yermom]

Maybe Sprint is tied in with the OU email server. :mad:

:O

technicians are working on the problem?

[mdklatt]

technicians are working on the problem?

Are they? I haven't seen any announcements about e-mail problems on the IT page, but I know I'm not the only one with slow and sometimes nonexistent service. I thought it was fixed yesterday, but it got worse again today.

[yermom]

it was legitimately down for a lot of users yesterday, not just slow

[mdklatt]

it was legitimately down for a lot of users yesterday, not just slow

It's been both again today. It appears to be working right now (no mail but at least I can connect).

[proud gonzo]

:mad:

[mdklatt]

:mad:

:les: LAND LINE!

[yermom]

it may have been unresponsive due to timeouts today, but it didn't actually go down

it should work from the webpage, i think even when pop/imap are timing out

[proud gonzo]

WE DON'T HAVE ONE!!!

[yermom]

i think that is what he is getting at ;)

[proud gonzo]

I know :mad:

my parents don't want to pay for a land line since they're already paying for cell phones for us AND we're rarely home.

[booomer]

Texas is dumb too.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BK8CFP_eiJA

[mdklatt]

When the next solar flare strikes I'm going to be one of the few Americans who can make it through the day without panicking. :cool:

[proud gonzo]

did somebody blow up a cellphone tower around here or something? now not only is the "network busy" i'm down to no bars of service alternating with no service at all.

mother****er.

[hurricane'bone]

I know :mad:

my parents don't want to pay for a land line since they're already paying for cell phones for us AND we're rarely home.


Just go to your neighbors, I'm sure they won't mind.

[mdklatt]

my parents don't want to pay for a land line since they're already paying for cell phones for us AND we're rarely home.

Nothing's stopping the two of you from getting one is there? $18 for basic service from Cox.

[proud gonzo]

my neighbors are semi-old, they probably aren't even awake

[proud gonzo]

Nothing's stopping the two of you from getting one is there? $18 for basic service from Cox.
I am not willing to pay them $9 a month AND have to buy a phone AND pay for whatever the heck setup fees they charge for a phone I will only use once in a blue moon when Sprint is being retarded.

i already give them enough money for the dern cable :mad:

[hurricane'bone]

my neighbors are semi-old, they probably aren't even awake


Even better, I'm sure one of them has a phone by a window, just bust out the glass and dial!

[yermom]

or find the box outside and jack a phone in ;)

[hurricane'bone]

or find the box outside and jack a phone in ;)


That sounds gwoss.

[yermom]

what? you've never jacked into a box before?

[hurricane'bone]

Not one with a phone in it!

[Mixer!]

http://img8.imagepile.net/img8b/609green_acres.jpg

[RacerX]

it may have been unresponsive due to timeouts today, but it didn't actually go down

it should work from the webpage, i think even when pop/imap are timing out

Spoken like tech.

It's not down, it's so slow it's useless. But it's not down.

[SicEmBaylor]

Skype

[SoonerBorn68]

anyone else having cellphone problems??

Not at the moment, but Sprint as a company and as a service, yes.
Stupid bastages are always getting our bill wrong & we experience loss of service. We live within a mile of a Sprint tower & still can't get a signal or go on roam about half the time.

I was having problems getting service at some of the places I go so I went to the Sprint store to see if they had a phone that had better range. The sales lady started in on her prepared speech on how Sprint had superior service and how I should be able to pick up a signal anywhere I go. I popped off that it was a nice theory and a good selling point but it wasn't true since I'm stuck with no signal most of the time I get called out to the Texas panhandle. I ended up getting a phone that I did some research on & so far so good, but I haven't been back to the panhandle since.

Sprint :succs:

[proud gonzo]

yeah, I like the time I was in a Sprint store looking at their map that shows everywhere they have coverate. There was a sort of "you are here" star on their map showing the coverage in Wichita and when I looked down at my phone it had no signal.

[SoonerInKCMO]

When the next solar flare strikes I'm going to be one of the few Americans who can make it through the day without panicking. :cool:

You can call me on my landline and we can laugh at the losers that "don't have any bars". :D

[yermom]

Spoken like tech.

It's not down, it's so slow it's useless. But it's not down.

:O

trust me, there is a difference :D

[handcrafted]

Change to Alltel. YWIA.

Oh yeah. And the OU email server sucks azz. It's down about half the time. One would think that there would be plenty of computer geeks to keep it running. However, it is a government operation. Plus they have to use OneNet, which is about 15 years behind the technology curve.

[mrowl]

You can call me on my cingular phone and we can laugh at the losers that buy sprint. :D

fixed.

[NormanPride]

I remember when I first moved in to the dorms in 2000 that my roommate and I had lots of fun with the FTP servers that OU had. They had set up so that you could not only view other peoples' webpage files on the server, you could download them as well. So we began downloading the entire server for shiggles. Didn't take them long to fix that one. :D

[SoonerBorn68]

Change to Alltel. YWIA.




I thought about it until I was working down by Wilburton & I had a signal & the other guy with Alltel didn't.

Cingular is actually better in overall coverage but they don't piggyback their signal to other carriers' towers. If you get away from their towers (like in Wilburton for example) there's no signal.

Unfortunately I've learned a bunch about cell carriers out here on the rigs. Every one of them have weak points. It just seems Sprint is weaker than most. :(