Mobile modem

[xoggoth]

As mentioned before I am having all sorts of problems with my GRPRS modem recently.

Cannot access secure sites like my bank, just gives not found in EI.
With Firefox I either get told tells me the page was interrupted or that there is no common encryption. If I upload anything to a website using FTP it turns into greek, but curiously, a php upload thing I put on the site works ok. Run virus/spyware scans, checked/reset various settings, nowt works.

Same laptop is fine when connected to broadband. Vodaphone tech. enquiries are looking into it but I am not hopeful.

It's rather an old card anyway, maybe time for a new one. Any suggestions?

 

[NoddY]

Consider the 3G/GPRS hybrid with Vodafone "Mobile Connect".

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobileconnect

The errors sound erroneous in that TCP/IP doesn't care which medium it travels over. It's possible the downstream path is timing out (upstream seems fine).

A more budget conscious decision might be not to bother with 3G and subscribe to public WiFi 802.11; if you can live planning your day to be in a certain hotspot to connect.

 

[darmstadt]

Consider the 3G/GPRS hybrid with Vodafone "Mobile Connect".

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobileconnect

The errors sound erroneous in that TCP/IP doesn't care which medium it travels over. It's possible the downstream path is timing out (upstream seems fine).

A more budget conscious decision might be not to bother with 3G and subscribe to public WiFi 802.11; if you can live planning your day to be in a certain hotspot to connect.

I got one of them and just received my bill for May, FFS, €770. In Belgium the rate was okay but over in Croatia I managed €199 in just one day replicating Notes. Tried in East Grinstead the other day and couldn't reach the Vodaphone network so had to use the hotel rip-off wireless which was only available in the lobby. Why is it so bloody expensive in the UK? Nearly every hotel in the USA has wireless or broadband for free and even here on the mainland it tends to be cheaper (Slovenia was only €5 for 24 hours.) This week I'm in Gatwick and its GBP15.00 for 24 hours. I would rather pay €5 for 60 minutes which I can use anytime, had that in Berlin and it was great. Rip-off Britain, costs me a bloody fortune every time I come here so I charge British companies a fortune to make up for it.