Saturday, 27 February 2010

New Pay Monthly Tarriffs from O2

26th February saw O2 review their pay monthly tarriff offerings.

On an 18 month standard contract the some of the tarriffs on offer are:

£15.00 per month - 50 inclusive minutes and unlimited Texts
£20.00 per month - 100 minutes and unlimited Texts
£30.00 per month - 300 minutes and unlimited Texts + Free Bolt-on

On an 24 month standard contract the some of the tarriffs on offer are:

£10.00 per month - 50 inclusive minutes and unlimited Texts
£15.00 per month - 100 minutes and unlimited Texts
£25.00 per month - 300 minutes and unlimited Texts + Free Bolt-on

The plans offering 300 minutes or more and offer a free bolt on, this can be:

Unlimited 02 to 02 calls
Unlimited landline calls
Unlimited web

For mobile users that are currently on pay-as-you-go the £10 per month offering could be a usefull alternative, with the 50 free minutes, unlimited texts and you can choose a free phone such as the LG POP, Sony Ericsson Naite and Nokia 6303 and others.

Click For more on the latest tarriffs from O2

Friday, 19 February 2010

Cheap Network Storage with the WD My Book



I received a report of some problems with an old server at one of the offices I look after.

The server was Linux based and old used as a shared file store, and also a DHCP server.

After looking around at possible solutions. I decided to pull the service and its 80GB drive, configure the wireless router as the DHCP server and look for an alternative storage solution. As per usual costs had to be kept to a minimum.

The item I went for was a Western Digital 1TB My Book World Edition. A simple NAS and media server. I was surprised at the size of the unit which was little bigger than a standard external drive.

Set up was simple, connect the drive to the router, insert the CD and setup through the menu system. The drive allows me to have log on private storage for each employee, a public folder and easy to set up file folders all on the hefty 1TB drive.

Within a couple of hours all the old server data was put onto the world book and all the shares set up and back in operation. Looks tidy, takes up far less room, and even allows me to add more storage via a USB port on the back.

The cost for this unit was just under £100+VAT and fully recommended.

More info on the Western Digital My Book