[stevec5000]

Does Whisher work at all? What is it supposed to do? I can't find a good description of it anywhere. It seems the only part that works is the forum and everyone is complaining about it. Was the software ever checked before it was released?

[Mother]

Hi,

Whisher does work, otherwise, we would not have the registered WiFis we have on our maps, or thousands of registered users. Maybe you haven't checked out the Features tab on the top navigation bar, which shows you all the features in the Whisher client, or the main home, where you have three buttons that give an overview of the concept behind Whisher.

The software is checked before release of course, but we cannot guarantee that it will work on every single computer out there. We are also working on Vista compatibility, but that's due to Microsoft having broken a -lot- of stuff with the new driver model.

If you have particular issues or problems, let me know, otherwise you seem like you want to post criticism for it's sake (three posts in less than five hours?).

Regards,

Mike

[stevec5000]

I watched a lady named Kristina De Nike from Jiwire describe Whisher on DL TV and I replayed it 3 times and I'm still not sure what it does and there's nothing on your website to clear it up any.
Is this a chat client or wi-fi sharing or both or something else?
I think all your blips on the map showing registered users must be fakes!
Anyway, it's pretty annoying that nothing works so far. I think I'm going to uninstall the thing and wait until you get a version that works and maybe try again in the future if you ever do get a version that works that is.
This forum is pretty worthless too, just like the Whisher program.
Are you the only person who ever tries to answer any questions on here Mike?
Are you the only person in the company who runs it from your Mom's basement answering emails at 2:44AM? You must really be overworked. You better get some sleep.

[stedewa]

stevec5000,
I've found your language quite a little aggressive. It's life of Mike to answer you during night, it's not yours, there are no clock in a start-up company, people are simply hard working!

I think that page:
http://www.whisher.com/feature.php
resumes well the functionalities of Whisher.
So it is certainly not only a Wifi connectivity software, it's much more, ever if the first fonctionnality is the one that I want to take the advantages. Only that, I can use Wefi.... but the second advantage : "Wifi sharing" is an other advantage I want and hope than people will understand the nice opportunity to share and like that if a lot of people understand that,... everybody are using Whisher will connect fast and easily through the world on other opened Wifi APs in a security way.


Mother,
But I'm pretty to share a part of the feeling of stevec5000. I think that registred AP on the map are the ones were registered with first version of Whisher just after your buzz in January/February. As I can see on my region (near Lausanne, Switzerland), or Paris, Lyon there are not so much new registered AP. And all AP have the same rating... strange...

I whisher you all the success you need to success with your start-up company!

[stevec5000]

The features.php page is just a picture of a chat client and anyone can put spots on a map but what good is that if it doesn't work?

[Mother]

Originally Posted by stevec5000

I watched a lady named Kristina De Nike from Jiwire describe Whisher on DL TV and I replayed it 3 times and I'm still not sure what it does and there's nothing on your website to clear it up any.
Is this a chat client or wi-fi sharing or both or something else?

I think the content on the site clarifies what Whisher is pretty good, if only the reader is willing to try even just a tiny little bit - if you're expecting to get information downloaded into your brain in Matrix cartridge-style, well, Whisher is not a service that can be described in three words (which of course makes our jobs to make people understand it harder). I think the features page combined with the screenshot gives plenty of hints at what Whisher is - honestly, I fail to see how you don't understand it. From your agressive attitude, I would believe that you do -not- want to understand it.

I think all your blips on the map showing registered users must be fakes!

Without any arguments, you could claim data provided by any company on the planet is false. I can't really make you trust us that they are real, so feel free to believe whatever makes you sleep at night. I know I sleep OK knowing the data we have is real (when I'm not up at nearly 3AM answering angry posts).

Anyway, it's pretty annoying that nothing works so far. I think I'm going to uninstall the thing and wait until you get a version that works and maybe try again in the future if you ever do get a version that works that is.

Can you -please- define "nothing"? It's a pretty broad term. Without creating an account, you won't be able to use any of the features, so I fail to see how you can calibrate the software and state that "nothing" works. If you created an account, connected, and logged in, so that you could see the rest of the nothingness that didn't work, well, something -did- work for that to happen.

Other users like stedewa have been critic, and rightly so as they have problems, but they have also provided us with plenty of information to allow us to diagnose the problems - in your case, you don't seem to want to even try, looking like you are just after trashing Whisher.

This forum is pretty worthless too, just like the Whisher program.

On what grounds is this forum worthless? On that you didn't get an answer in less than four hours? Based on your long and extensive experience on these forums? Your baseless disqualifications are starting to wear thin to be honest.

Are you the only person who ever tries to answer any questions on here Mike?

So that you put things in perspective, we are a small team of three people running the company, with a team of developers that build our software and systems. So yeah, we have 66% of our executive staff committed to answering the forums - is that a problem? Our CEO is also active on the forums, something I have rarely seen in -any- company.

Are you the only person in the company who runs it from your Mom's basement answering emails at 2:44AM? You must really be overworked. You better get some sleep.

You obviously have no idea of what a startup is, or quite likely, what work is. I will give you one last chance to:

a) Provide constructive criticism based on actual factual data.
b) Tell me what is wrong with your Whisher client install, further than "nothing works". Please see the plenty other threads on this forums where people have provided this kind of interaction.

Otherwise, I will be forced to ban you, and your posts will attest to the reasons if anyone cares to look. A personal attack like you have posted would get you banned from most forums I know of (and moderate), so I urge you to reconsider your attitude.

Best regards,

Mike

[Mother]

Originally Posted by stedewa

stevec5000,
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Mother,
But I'm pretty to share a part of the feeling of stevec5000. I think that registred AP on the map are the ones were registered with first version of Whisher just after your buzz in January/February. As I can see on my region (near Lausanne, Switzerland), or Paris, Lyon there are not so much new registered AP. And all AP have the same rating... strange...

I whisher you all the success you need to success with your start-up company!

Thanks for your kind support - the explanation is exactly what you say, buzz. Since our launch, we have fully concentrated on getting the client up to speed and in line with user feedback, and accept that we would not get growth curves like those seen in other startups promising a lot on weekly press releases but eventually failing to deliver on them.

It's true that since we don't have hundreds of thousands of users and registered WiFis, the ratings on them are going to be mostly empty, but some do change (click Spain from the country list on the map, and go through the list on the right). In any case, we're committed to providing our users with factual data, not something made up.

Best regards,

Mike

[AlGeorge]

Unfortunately, I must agree with the OP. This program is extremely unstable. Here is what I have found and would be happy if support would make some constructive suggestions.

1..minor point during installation could not copy or paste password from my password generator as the edit fields have those functions disabled.
2..After 1st install and manual instantiation, the program crashed after my first password input.
3..After a WinXP (Edition 2) reboot, there were 15 instantiations of Whisher, which eventually crashed the PC again, with 'Whisher encountered a problem' (standard Win API error dlg). I rt clicked the bunch of whisher in the task bar and 'close group' which 'seemed' to work. Then every time I tried to bring another program up, whisher appeared. Whisher even took over Windows task manager hotkeys and brought up instantiation of itself rather than Task manager on Ctrl-Alt-Del.
4..Uninstalled it, then uninstalled 2hotspot which I thought may have been interfering even though it was disabled. Reboot, re-install whisher. Same crazy performance with it taking over everything.
5..Eventually I ignored the invasive nature of the program and got logged in, but did it show any wifi icons? zilch, even though my own hotspot was operating with 3 nodes using it.

I had disabled antivirus which incidentally it killed of its own accord on the first running of the program. And its ability to kill other programs is just plain scarey.

What in the world is going on? I have not had any other program behave in this errant fashion in the past, and my PC has never exhibited any defective behaviour until use of your program.
Have uninstalled it, but will appreciate any suggestion, and report if it does work as meant.
I am not using an internal wifi card, but a Dlink DSL-G604T, which is an external router/adsl modem/wifi.
Cheers,
Alistair.

[AlGeorge]

How remiss; I forgot to add it is Version 3.0.2.21 of Whisher.

[AlGeorge]

On my notebook it installed ok. Its apparent there is something on my main PC which the software/drivers dont like. The notebook uses a usb wifi connection.