Huawei ADSL modem - any way to get it for free?

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PaulZA

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# 144251 12-May-2014 18:45

Hi there, I was speaking to the Telecom live chat staff, about shipping out a VDSL modem, but they wanted $149.

We currently have the Technicolor modem, and I'm sick of it.

It always disconnects, at the worst possible time, speeds are slow, it's slow over wireless, and I have several 8.1 machines in the house, which I had to manually specify DNS settings for, but whenever I make a modification to the network settings, I always have to reenter the DNS settings, yes while it's a quick adjustment, it can be an annoyance if it has to be done repeatedly.

Since Telecom issued these modems, which that issue, surely they'd be able to send a modem which has the issue resolved free of charge?

Thanks

PeterReader

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# 1042561 12-May-2014 18:45

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plambrechtsen

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# 1042691 12-May-2014 21:59

Do you have VDSL, or ADSL?

If you have ADSL then the TG582N works fine with Windows 8.1.. If you have VDSL, send me an email "pl at telecom.co.nz" and I will see what I can do.

PaulZA

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# 1042723 13-May-2014 00:01

Thanks for the reply.

Email sent, sorry should've been clearer.

Yes we do have VDSL, and our modem is a TG589vn. Man I hate that thing.

funnyfela

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# 1043163 13-May-2014 18:25

Yeah not keen on our technicolour one either, hoping no one else here gets 8.1 and comes crying to me it doesn't work :/

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# 1043173 13-May-2014 18:50

One person supports this post

I just rung up about our Technicolor vdsl modem and the problems I was having with it and the multiple 8.1 machines in our house and they sent out a courier bag for the Technicolor to send back to them and sent me the Huawei one , its much better and a lot more versatile with with being able to control it with port forwarding etc.
Good on Telecom for resolving the problem in one call.

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