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I bought the pay as you go dongle in june just for use when I go on holiday.
The first time I went away I could not get it to work at all on my Linux eee pc so I just put it down to the eee pc software.
I then went to Scotland where it kept disconnecting and I just thought it was the old laptop not having USB 2.0 and the non-3G network.
I have been away for a weekend and I took away a brand new XP laptop.
And the dongle was totally useless.
The first night it worked fine using the mobile connect software. I had 3 bars of 3G.
The following morning it would not connect and kept telling me that some other software was using it. (I had all my anti-virus off and firewalls off its also a new PC with very little software on it).
I finally managed to get it to connect by using start -> connect to -> vodafone mobile connect.
Once I did that I had 2-10 minutes before it would just randomly disconnect and I would have to reconnect again.
On Sunday it did the same I only had 2-10 minutes before it would disconnect. But this time when it disconnected it would do the XP device disconnected sound, then a second later the XP device reconnect sound and the vodafone software would load up and just say searching for network forever.
After a reboot I tried to connect using the “connect to” option and it just gave me lots of error messages.
Here they are below
I have tried: turning the computer on with the dongle connected, using the connect to option, disabling my anti-virus and firewall and reinstalling the software nothing stops it disconnecting after 2-10 minutes.
Can you give me a new working dongle or get the current one fixed?
:angry:
The first time I went away I could not get it to work at all on my Linux eee pc so I just put it down to the eee pc software.
I then went to Scotland where it kept disconnecting and I just thought it was the old laptop not having USB 2.0 and the non-3G network.
I have been away for a weekend and I took away a brand new XP laptop.
And the dongle was totally useless.
The first night it worked fine using the mobile connect software. I had 3 bars of 3G.
The following morning it would not connect and kept telling me that some other software was using it. (I had all my anti-virus off and firewalls off its also a new PC with very little software on it).
I finally managed to get it to connect by using start -> connect to -> vodafone mobile connect.
Once I did that I had 2-10 minutes before it would just randomly disconnect and I would have to reconnect again.
On Sunday it did the same I only had 2-10 minutes before it would disconnect. But this time when it disconnected it would do the XP device disconnected sound, then a second later the XP device reconnect sound and the vodafone software would load up and just say searching for network forever.
After a reboot I tried to connect using the “connect to” option and it just gave me lots of error messages.
Here they are below
I have tried: turning the computer on with the dongle connected, using the connect to option, disabling my anti-virus and firewall and reinstalling the software nothing stops it disconnecting after 2-10 minutes.
Can you give me a new working dongle or get the current one fixed?
:angry:
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Hi Micro,
Hmmm.... sounds likle really bad luck to me, but before I go off asking you to get the replacement dongle replaced
could you do me a massive favour and try the SIM in a handset and attempt to browse a few pages?
This will allow us to ascertain whether the SIM need replacing, or in fact, if it's the dongle again (which I very much doubt, but you never know)
As I say, just give this a try for me and post back your findings.
Cheers,
LeeH
eForum Team
Hmmm.... sounds likle really bad luck to me, but before I go off asking you to get the replacement dongle replaced
could you do me a massive favour and try the SIM in a handset and attempt to browse a few pages?This will allow us to ascertain whether the SIM need replacing, or in fact, if it's the dongle again (which I very much doubt, but you never know)
As I say, just give this a try for me and post back your findings.
Cheers,
LeeH
eForum Team
When I went to the shop i could not find my sim card as it had dropped out of the envelope. So the guy got me a new sim and did something to it.
I put it in my sim free phone and it said "Invalid SIM"
I just had a quick dig in the bottom of my bag and found the old sim card When i put it in my phone it said "Vodafone UK".
I have put the old sim back in the dongle and it looks to be working as i have managed to connect and read a few emails with out it disconnecting. But i will have a full test to see if it will disconnect tomorrow.
Fingers Crossed that it will now work
I put it in my sim free phone and it said "Invalid SIM"
I just had a quick dig in the bottom of my bag and found the old sim card When i put it in my phone it said "Vodafone UK".
I have put the old sim back in the dongle and it looks to be working as i have managed to connect and read a few emails with out it disconnecting. But i will have a full test to see if it will disconnect tomorrow.
Fingers Crossed that it will now work
