[wellylug] Vodafone USB Huawei "3G" Modem configured for Windows (!) & Macs

Peter Lambrechtsen plambrechtsen at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 06:28:43 NZST 2009


Are you using umtsmon to dial? There are plenty of at commands and I  
would suggest you install umtsmon which does it all on Linux.



On 23/06/2009, at 6:56 PM, marchetti <marchetti at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> I use mine with an Eee PC901 (Xandros-based OS) and An Acer
> 4315 (Fedora 10).
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> Even with maximum signal strength, and several cell sites,
> the modem never switches from slow GPRS to faster 3G. That
> said, it does work faster with a better signal and more cell
> sites... I use a Blackberry on Vodafone's network, and it is
> very selective when it switches to 3G...
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> I have no idea presently how the modem might work on a
> Windows OS PC, and do not want really to find out, as I
> heartily dislike most things to do with Microsoft.
>
> Is anyone aware of a fix to improve the internet access
> speed, when operating the modem with Linux, or is the
> problem really Vodafone's network??
>
> Ken
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