OZL#ONE LAN Party – 3 months to go!

St Austell’s new resident LAN Party organiser, SanOzzelLAN is due to open the doors to it’s first LAN Party in July and I can’t wait!

It’s no secret that I am SanOzzelLAN’s Team Leader, and that I am also sponsoring OZL#ONE, a 24 hour PC gaming event through DieselTekk and am offering a couple of prizes, my Optimise I.T. service and a Free PC Clean & Tidy as prizes for a couple of the events.

However, what is not so well known as that we [myself and my co-founder, Tez] are working really hard to make OZL#ONE the local show-stopper we have longed for in St Austell for so long.

Tickets are on sale now, at just £21 per gamer, and with discounts from our sponsor Tengo! on food purchases throughout the duration of the event, cheap taxi fair’s to and from the venue from Gary’s Taxi’s and a couple of tickets to White River Cinema up for grabs as well as the [likely] BBQ you are getting great value for your money!

We are also working on a bunch of other, big-name, sponsors for the event, such as ThermalTake, Razer, AMD/ATI, Nvidia, Corsair and Crucial so the potential for great prizes is pretty darn good.

Additionally, if you find yourself in need of any new games for the event, Gameseek.co.uk, SanOzzelLAN.co.uk’s chief affiliate offer great prices and offer SanOzzelLAN a 4% commission on your every purchase, which all helps towards building a better event!

We have a bunch of mini-games planned to, more information will be provided on these in our growing forum, where you too can become part of an enthusiastic community, where like-minded folk will welcome you with open arms!

So what are you waiting for?  Get on over to SanOzzelLAN.co.uk!

By the way, just one more thing before I wrap this one up… if you are a steadfast supporter of DieselTekk, even if you cannot get to OZL#ONE, please join up to the SanOzzelLAN forum anyway, because your membership will help us grow, and your contribution will always be welcomed.

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The Trouble With BT… again! - UPDATED

I’ve discussed previously how bad service from BT seems to be in my opinion, and that is just one more entry in the catalogue of problems British Telecom has caused me in the past, not to mention the problems faced by others throughout the UK.

One of my customers who runs a takeaway business in town came to me with a problem he was having with his new broadband equipment; a BT Business Broadband Router.

He was trying to get it set up so that he could access the internet from his premises but had thus far been unsuccessful.  He called me in and I set to work.

I estimated over the phone that the work would take just 15 minutes or so, but I was grossly mistaken.

Setting up this particular piece of kit needed to be done by following a set up tutorial on the provided CD while inputting required information at various points, including the serial number of the router and ‘first-time login’ details.

The tutorial would not progress past the question “Is the Broadband light on the router showing steady green?”.  I to wouldn’t progress because I could not answer YES to the question, there was no steady green light, instead it flashed every time I reached that point in the set up routine.  Until that point it would show steady green quite happily.

I tried answering YES several times despite the issue, but after that point the set up routine looked for the internet connection and could not find it.

During troubleshooting I checked that all the connections were correct, that micro-filters were placed on all phone sockets and reset the router several times.  I ran the setup a few times.  Checked the connection via CMD (ipconfig /all, /release, /renew etc) and still the same result. 

I determined that the router hardware was most likely faulty and that my client should contact BT for further help.

At the end of the job, which took a little over an hour – 4 times longer than anticipated – I felt rather disappointed for both myself and my client.  It is on these occasions that I hate what I do, because I am left wondering if my inability to resolve the issue was truly down to faulty hardware, or my own incapability.  Hopefully my client will come back to me and let me know if he was able to resolve the issue with a replacement router from British Telecom, or if they could get him up and running over the phone.

UPDATE – 25th Febraury 2009

After speaking tonight with my customer it is now known that the BT Business Broadband Router was faulty, which was revealed after BT sent out a new replacement and the customer was online within just a few minutes.

DieselTekk Services – Optimise IT

Since I was smacked with the redundancy stick last Friday I have had to take a look at how I am going to keep my family with food in their stomachs.

So, after years of learning and gaining experience I am now offering my knowledge and time to people in my local area in need of help with their computer systems.

Yesterday I walked around dropping 100 leaflets through the doors of homes in my immediate area, in a day or two I will do 100 more.  The leaflets are double sided, one side promoting this website, and telling a little of what I do and can offer, the other side is a service promotion “Optimise IT”.

About Optimise IT

These days everybody is feeling the pinch financially, but nevertheless computers still cause users trouble, thus creating a thought in the owners minds that it’s time to replace their slow PC with something new.  However many people just do not realise that the slow down is normal, and all that is required is a little technical know-how and time to gain back a bit of that speed, thus ensuring their computer can carry on for a bit longer before needing to be replaced.

Optimise IT is a service that provides just that; a computer that is optimised for the user, that performs better, performs faster than before.

Get in touch to make an appointment

So, if you are interested in this service and live in the St Austell area please give me a call on 07846548210 or email me.

Appointments can be made for morning, afternoon or evenings, the work will take place in your own home (so you can see exactly what is being done, and ask any questions you like) and you will not be overcharged!

Currently I am only offering my service in St Austell, Cornwall (UK) so please, if you live outside of this area just watch this space… more towns will be served as soon as possible!