News
POWER OUTAGE AT AAPT EXCHANGE About 11am Wed 22nd. Feb. a water pipe burst, flooding part of the building at the Riverside Center in Eagle Street housing the AAPT telephone exchange and the 3rd Party room for for most major ISP's in the Brisbane CBD where they house equipment for peering and IP Transit. As a result of the flooding the power to that floor had to be cut off for safety causing a major Internet and telephone service outage. The Internet equipment went on to batteries which ran out about 1pm. Broadband services were restores about 5:30pm phone lines are still out of service.
OPENSOURCE ADDONS
If you have a database hosting package with eis.net, such as FileMaker, Interworx MySQL or BlueQuartz MySQL hosting, then we offer a range of Opensource productuctivity applications at no extra cost.
0198 NATIONAL ROAMING
National roaming access is now available for users of prepaid Block Hours and Casual Access Plans This means travelling customers can call eis.net for the cost of a local call!
SPAM FILTERING
With the huge increase in unsolicited emails (SPAM) over the last few months, eis.net have installed software on our main mail server as a trial, that checks multiple International SPAM blacklists for known spammers before accepting emails. it won't stop all SPAM but we have noticed a remarkable decrease already.
VIRUS UPDATES
There are a few nasty viruses out there now a days, mostly on Michrosoft Windows which is the most common system people have, and it is always good to keep your virus software up to date. Here are a few links to keep you abreast of the latest virus definitions.
- - Norton Anti-Virus Software
- - Vet Anti-Virus Software
- - Sophos Anti-Virus Software
- - McAfee Anti-Virus Software
- - AVG Anti-Virus Software Free for Windows
WEBMAIL CHANGES
Introducing the web-based email program called Openwebmail (a replacement for Neomail) which can be accessed via a browser http://mail.eis.net.au or for our Web Hosting clients type www.yourdomainname.com.au/webmail is proving to be a great success.
There are many benefits for using Openwebmail as we have detailed below:
- You are free to read emails from computers other than your own computer ie, work, internet cafes, on holidays, etc.
- Openwebmail gives you the option of checking and deleting your emails without actually downloading them into your mail program-this is beneficial, specifically where problems like computer viruses are concerned.
- If you are having trouble downloading your emails with your email program, log onto Openwebmail and check to see that you haven't got a particularly large email clogging your mailbox. This allows you to delete the problem email without trying to wait for it to download on your computer.