Seán writes:
Travelling to Paris this morning via Dublin Airport. Seems strange that payphones (top) would’ve been rebranded but not wireless SSIDs (above). Been like this since I last passed through in November…
Anyone?
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Have a pint in departures. You deserve it.
Members of Eir’s marketing team are commiting seppuku in shame at this systematic failure.
Ouch.
That broke my geek-o-meter !
only paid to do this bit boss. Old habits die hard.
This is Commission of Inquiry territory.
Someone has to answer for this.
SHAME ON THEM
To eir is human, to forgive divine.
Yes! Oh yes!
*applauds*
+1 :0)
Éired on the side of caution
It’s a disgrace, Ro.
In the airport in November (coming or going impossible to tell) and off again to Paris in early February. You’ve done well for yourself Sean. However you seem anxious, troubled. let it go Sean. Enjoy your success. Stop standing by the payphones with your troubled anxious face.
Sean has a sad, lonely life :(
This is a cry for help
Unless they are using WPA2 Enterprise where SSIDs are centrally administered this would mean having to send out a technician to update every single one, which would be expensive and time consuming. Changing branding inserts not so expensive. Another possibility is they simply don’t want to break users wireless configs though I’d be surprised if they were so caring. At the end of the day though it could just be “out of sight out of mind” but in any case they’ll probably do have a migration strategy in place though so I’m sure it won’t be bothering you in due course.
There’s also an update required to the eircom wifi app which hunts for eircom wifi and connects automatically (for eir/com customers). That would probably need to come first to search for eir and eircom and then they can start the long drawn out process of renaming all the payphone wifis.
I can’t imagine it’s very high on the priority list.
What he said.
eir payphones owned and managed by eir
eircom SSID owned and managed by DAA
Would love to understand you Seàn but been finding it hard to keep up.
How is there so many people who care about WIFI spots?
4G and unlimited data, why do you need them?
“And when Sean looked down upon the non-rebranded SSID’s he wept,for there were no more things other than those to complain about…”
Yawn. “eir” is merely a trading name of Eircom Ltd.
Didn’t realise SSIDs were more closely tied to legal than branding identity …
That’s a terrible photo to demonstrate the phone rebranding, by the way.