On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 02:37:17 PM zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:52:30 Piers Rowan said,
Have you tested it in a typical device - phone/tablet?
No, I do not have anything (I can find) to test it on, I do have another USB 3G modem I cannot at the moment find it. I do not (and never will have) a mobile phone.
The typical price for a 3G Wifi device is $49. New Android phones that can act as a Wifi AP start at $119 on Kogan and you could get one on ebay for less. If you use an Android phone as a Wifi AP then you can do lots of diagnostics on the phone that can't really be done on a dedicated 3G Wifi device. When I have to provide temporary 3G Internet access for a client (usually when they stop paying for the "unused" phone line) I install an Android phone in their office. Then when something goes wrong I can talk them through diagnosing it on the phone.
Looking at the data comming back it looks like the connection reachs the Bendigo Telco servers and these are sending back a SIGHUP (a hangup signal). My current theory is the optus network must be sending an incorrect id to the Bendigo servers, which means a faulty sim. The problem is of course they do not support Linux and are blaming that, and I cannot try it on windows as the dongle is no longer switched to the mode windows requires it in (Note 1). For various reasons including I am not sure how to do it, I do not want to switch it back.
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