My Tech Adventures

Hello Again! Some pictures of the BT Home Hub (version 1): And some pictures of BT Home Hub v1.5: And they also come in Black!!! The Home Hub v1 and Home Hub v1.5 are adsl wireless routers that were provided by UK ISP BT to their customers made by Thomson/Inventel (aka Technicolor/Alcatel) quite some time ago. The specifications are listed here  under the Hardware section. You can still find them 'dumped' here in Pakistan ... some packaged nicely in their boxes as shown above ... and more importantly, mostly in good working condition. I remember getting them both several years ago (when I didn't know anything about unlocking) and the disappointment when I realized that they were locked to BT*.  At that time, these were the most featured devices available here locally not to mention great looking as well. Sadly, had to be stored away. Unlike me however, other people didn't give up and when PsiDOC came along, a whole co...

Updated: Turns out Zong is no better with "missing" balance issues! Back to Telenor who now have 4G as well (dealing with the original issue with Telenor by using the Spam Filter)! Hello! A couple of days ago, I received a call from Zong's customer support number 310 asking for my home address to deliver their 4G LTE SIM free of cost as I am a valuable customer (according) to them. I had ported over to Zong from Telenor few months ago (due to Telenor's failure to stop in an agreeable manner, despite my repeated requests and help from the regulator PTA, their barrage of promotional messages and illegal promotional robo-calls) but hadn't selected the 4G capable SIM. So, I was quite happy to accept this offer and to my surprise, it was delivered the very next day as promised via TCS at no cost. Here are some pictures (with my details blanked out of course): Selected Micro-SIM as per my mobile phone! With my 'old' SIM in the phone, I ha...