To improve the technical help we offer, we are entering each call into a database. At this time, we are simply monitoring the information, but we have several great ideas for using for that database. If the database were online (without the personal information - of course) imagine how useful it would be to search for problems and their solutions when you have a problem. The database is also a useful tool when you end up dealing with more than one Granite staff member before your problem is solved. The database is even used during planning of Internet Training Sessions.
The Pinawa Business Council is sponsoring an Ice Sculpture Contest during the Whiteshell Winter Festival. Entries are limited, so if your group is interested in participating call Cathy at 753-2277 early to avoid disappointment. Prizes include cash, gift certificates and lots of other great items courtesy of the Pinawa Business Council. Entries are free so put on your creative toque and come out to sculpt away!
Trial Offer (for currnet Granite subscribers only):
For a $50 setup fee, Granite will:
After the trial period the customer can:
Transend 67k Dialup Accounts
Gold All inclusive**
Gold Regular**
** Granite will maintain an 8 to1 ratio on the Gold modem pool, but because of the limitted number of modems some busy signals may occur. The Transcend is able to dial into the regular modem pool.
| Modem Configuration | Purchase Price | Lease Price |
| Transend 67 External | $840 | $80 per month |
| Transend 67 Internal | $520 | $50 per month |
| Alien | $50 | NA |
For leasing information, please contact the office.
For Sale - Starcraft Starmaster 6, 3-way fridge, propane stove, hard top, sleeps 6, awning included. Asking Price $1000.00 OBO. Call 1-204-475-0799
Wanted To Buy - School Bus suitable for conversion to camper. Must be safty certified. GM preferred. Call 1-204-474-0799.
Whiteshell Information Technologies High Quality Computer system sales and service. Over 17 years of information technology experience. Visit http://wit.mb.ca, e-mail parceyd@wit.mb.ca or call 753-2721.
Now available - classified advertising. We've been asked routinely for rates on advertising your site in the Granite Business Directory, or methods to place a simple ad on the internet. This is our newletter so it makes sense to put those ads here. Advertising rates for the first 2 months will be very reasonable - free! Starting April 1 the rate will be $5.00 per ad. The ad will remain on-line. The Granite Newsletter is published monthly, but previous months newsletters remain available for viewing. Hypertext links and e-mail links will not only be available, but encouraged. Load up a picture in your user area and we will link to the picture for ad purposes. To place an ad in the Granite Newsletter, send information to webmistress@granite.mb.ca. The ad must be submitted electronically. Ads via snail mail will be charged an extra $10.00 processing fee.
If you've got your business site ready for viewing and want a little more exposure, place a link along with your logo and Site Description in the Granite Business Directory for $10.00 per month or $100.00 per year. Granite offers a Site Marketing Program that includes submittal to 100 search engines and suggestions for meta tag inclusions on your page for only $75.00. The meta tags help push your site to the top of the search engines. If you're doing this yourself, remember to repeat the submittals at least once a year to keep your site fresh in the search engines.
Coming soon to the HTML Help Page will be a list of CGI scripts, along with the documentation for using them . These scripts will be available for use by Granite members only. We sincerely hope this will satisfy the needs of those designing their own web pages. If there is a script you need, feel free to contact us and we will see what we can do. There are scripts available on other sites for use as well. Some Granite members are already using other scripts. If you use one you like, we'd love to hear about it. Send us the URL for the script and we'll post it on the HTML help page for other members to use.
If you update your homepage with something you'd like to share, please e-mail the webmistress and we'll post the address here.
Network Manager’s Report
Problems
A major outage occurred on Saturday January 24, 1998. MTS had a major hardware
problem that ended up taking out a DS3 card, which ended up taking down 26 T1
circuits. Down time in Lac du Bonnet was about 2 hours but Pinawa was down until
7:00 AM Sunday January 25, 1998.
The first modem in Whitemouth failed on Wednesday January 28, 1998. It was replaced about 6:30 PM that evening.
Upgrades
No major hardware or software upgrades. A minor change to the mail system
prohibits the sending or receiving of messages over 2 Mb. It is recommended
that anyone needing to transfer a file over 1 Mb use FTP instead of email. Check
our FAQ page if you need help using FTP.
New Features
Granite is a reseller for WiLAN products.
WiLAN builds high speed wireless modems up to 3.0 Mb per second speeds (T1 x 2).
Granite currently uses 56 kb per second wireless modem technology.
February Upgrades/Changes
The modem pool in Lac du Bonnet has started to see busy signals. More equipment
has been ordered and Granite will be adding more lines and modems the second week
of February.
Granite is looking into ways of relieving the congestion on the Pinawa link ( link is shared by Agassiz School Division, Eastman Freenet, Granite (Whitemouth), and the School District of Whiteshell). This would increase the performance for all users of Pinawa link.
Network "FUN FACT"!
In January, Granite transferred about 20,500 email message which produced
267,000,000,000 bytes of data.
What's Coming
Our next Internet Training Session has not been scheduled
yet, but don't let that stop you from letting us know you are interested. We
keep a mailing list on hand so we can let you know when the next session will be.
E-mail webmistress@granite.mb.ca today.
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