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Old 12-07-2008, 06:13 PM
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hello all, a freind of mine has just got the 3g mobile broadband for his lap top with the dongle and cant get it to work, it says you just plug it in your laptop and off ya go but cant any signal , anybody got this

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Old 12-07-2008, 06:44 PM
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is the sim card in?
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Which one?
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sim card in and its the Huawei E169G usb modem cost Ł10.00 a month, just checked coverage for my area and should be ok, been out in car with laptop and dongle in but still no coverage
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Is the SIM in the right way round?
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its took mine 24hrs to go online!
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Originally Posted by SassyRS
its took mine 24hrs to go online!
right so could be that then, and yes sim is in the correct way..
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Has he rang up his provider to activate it?!

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yeh also you have to call the 3 call centre and activate the sim, then wait upto 24hrs!

when it works (which it will) for Ł10 a month its brilliant IMO!
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Originally Posted by SassyRS
yeh also you have to call the 3 call centre and activate the sim, then wait upto 24hrs!

when it works (which it will) for Ł10 a month its brilliant IMO!
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Yeh it seems hit and miss if you have to activate it, depends on the company I think.

T-Mobile whom I am with didn't require me to ring up to Activate it, but I think Orange do. Not sure about the others though.

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3 dont. Plug in and go.
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