Foxtel

[red_hotxr6]

has any one had a problem with there foxtel today i cant change channels

[Outbackjack]

I read somewhere tat foxtel are suffering from huge technical difficulties today.... That could be affecting you.

[Jeeepers]

Originally Posted by red_hotxr6

has any one had a problem with there foxtel today i cant change channels

Yeah, we had issues too. Couldn't select certain channels. Drove the misses mad... I hate the thing so it never bothered me.

[thefargo]

same here, in sunny southern south aust; yesterday and today.

[cArSiK]

same here. Its been on and off for afew days now.

[Smoke Pursuit]

yeh same, no channel 9 at one stage and it wouldnt bring up any info about the programs.

[red_hotxr6]

Geez it is so nice of them to inform there customers as to what is going on, even if it something on the news.i rung today and i couldnt even get through.You think some intelligent person there would leave some sort of message to inform us. :

[Professor Farnsworth]

i was awake at 5am for some reason, (still awake that is) and the box locked up.. no amount of turning it on off/leaving it unplugged for a few mins etc would bring it back. It kept doing start-up checks etc, all lights staying on, all sorts of weird things. It only started working again about 2pm. I'm in melb's north. Good thing the price isn't going up for the 400th time, oh wait yes it is.

[Ralliart]

yeah my dad told me about it this morning i was going fix but was 2 tired since i was working all last night.

[red_hotxr6]

Off course its going up again, there are now a million ads on the thing and now the bosses need to up grade there mercedes benz.

[Jeeepers]

Originally Posted by red_hotxr6

there are now a million ads on the thing and now

That's the criminal part of it. Why should we pay to view advertisements. I want it disconnected, but she won't have it. :

[red_hotxr6]

Maybe they havent paid their sattellite bill, all 15 million of it>>>How unproffesional.

[russellw]

Powered off and restarted it's fine (you'll have to do this from the actual wall outlet) - it's a botched firmware upgrade.

Cheers
Russ

[Professor Farnsworth]

Originally Posted by russellw

Powered off and restarted it's fine (you'll have to do this from the actual wall outlet) - it's a botched firmware upgrade.

Cheers
Russ

nah that didn't work for mine.. it was out for hours.

[Outbackjack]

I bet foxtell will give all its customers a discount on this months rent to compensate for the inconvenience!!

[red_hotxr6]

Excellent, it worked, thanks very much

[kyro_02]

So I paid $5.95 for a movie that i got to watch HALF of, from 3am to 5AM where my foxtel cable went dead, i tried resetting it 10 times... failed, striaght to sleep... god now i gotta pay again :( :(

ps: the movie - Inside Man

[xr8chick]

yeah, mum rang this morning when it stopped at 5:48 this morning when i got up for school. the guy said it was out all across australia. ours is up and working now.

[AC]

We lost the program guide for a few hours. Nothing unusal.

[JTFG]

yes ours also stuffed up but works fine now, but as mentioned turning the box off then on works

[Ralliart]

does anyone know how long it was off for?

[xr8chick]

Hey tip for when the program guide goes off and you can't see anything on it.

go to 'sports selector' and let it load, then click on the foxtel button[to go back to the previous channel.], i came to it one day, so everytime it stuffs up do that. =]

[Jason[98.EL]]

yup i had this problem yesterday here in geelong

i called foxtell and had it running in 5 mins

they told me to pull the smart card out press the back and select butons then once it goes through its system check ... ie green like back on box or asks for the card /card not preasant

you then fit the card again and it all worked fine for me

jason

[FRDGAL]

Mine was out for about an hour and then all was back to normal but other than that, no problems.

[AdzT3-146]

Mine was down from about 6 this morning till about 5 pm

[EA2BA]

When I got home, ours didnt work, had to uplug the power at the wall to reset it.

I read they had a problem at 6am that didnt get fully resolved to 12.30pm.

[ronwest]

I powered ours off and on and all was fine.

That didn't work for my wife's workmate.

She called Foxtel and was told to press "Back" button three times and then press "Foxtel".

That worked for her...

[Laminge]

My neighbors went down early this morning, so I ran the cable to the back door neighbors dish and worked fine.

[Aussie Falcon]

Mine was locked up this morning as well.

http://australianit.news.com.au/arti...E15306,00.html

Foxtel back after software glitch

DECEMBER 01, 2006
FOXTEL services have finally been restored across Australia after a
technical glitch saw them disrupted for up to six and a half hours.

Thousands of subscribers to the pay-TV network had their services frozen
from 6am today.

Some digital set-top boxes on cable and satellite services across the
country were fixed on to one channel.

Foxtel spokeswoman Rebecca Melkman said its satellite service had been
restored by 9am but the cable service was not completely restored until
12.30pm.

Ms Melkman said she did not know how many subscribers were affected after
the glitch caused by a problem with some software.

More than one million people subscribe to Foxtel's digital pay-TV service.

AAP

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by red_hotxr6

Off course its going up again, there are now a million ads on the thing and now the bosses need to up grade there mercedes benz.

Lol, the bosses are telstra and news ltd execs arent they? I dont know if they can upgrade their mercs any more than they already have!!

Go easy on poor old foxtel tho - for all the years its been around, its only just started making money (1 or 2 years of profit now?).

RE: problems... didnt have any dramas with mine at all?? Cable connection in SA....