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. On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:06:31 Keith Bainbridge said,
I used this for a couple of years on my laptop:
I am almost 100 percent sure its not a configuration issue. I have checked my config with three on line sources, one of which was specfic to Optus (both Virgin and Bendigo Telco use Optus) and everything checks out ____including___ the APN. 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. Note 1: When one get it it looks like a USB hardisk, Windows copies the installation software from the dongle. when this is exicuted it switch's the dongle into operational mode. In this it has 3 serial ports a hardisk and a ram disk.
On another issue, is the modem locked?
No Lindsay