Virgin sim card

[Nickhyena]

Hi Guys,

I hope there is someone who can help here. I bought a vodacom data connect card (cash) a couple of weeks ago and am very pleased with the speed, connectivity etc, although R2 per MB is killing me cause I just can't help myself when surfing and always seem to be opening images, videos etc. So this morning I got a 128k virgin sim card. Its all set up and ready to go (and works to make phone calls etc). I put it in my data card to see if I could figure it out, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help, i'd very much appreciate it.

Cheers,

Nick

[sean12]

Hi Guys,

I hope there is someone who can help here. I bought a vodacom data connect card (cash) a couple of weeks ago and am very pleased with the speed, connectivity etc, although R2 per MB is killing me cause I just can't help myself when surfing and always seem to be opening images, videos etc. So this morning I got a 128k virgin sim card. Its all set up and ready to go (and works to make phone calls etc). I put it in my data card to see if I could figure it out, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help, i'd very much appreciate it.

Cheers,

Nick

What APN are you using?

VM is "vdata"

Sean

[Nickhyena]

Hi Sean,

thanks for your response. What is APN and where can I enter it. I was trying to get connected using the vodacom version 7 dashboard software, but I can't work out how to use it with the VM sim card. It works with VC sim card fine.

Cheers,

Nick

[sean12]

Hi Sean,

thanks for your response. What is APN and where can I enter it. I was trying to get connected using the vodacom version 7 dashboard software, but I can't work out how to use it with the VM sim card. It works with VC sim card fine.

Cheers,

Nick

I do not know any thing about the VC dashboard.

Try sending this to your modem in the modem intialisation string.

at+cgdcont=1,"ip","vdata","",0,0

Sean

[Skeptik]

Could your Voda card be one of the dreaded locked ones? Does it work OK with MtN??

[Nickhyena]

I hope not, when I bought it I asked and they said its not network locked, and I called today and they confimed it.

Whats modem initialization string?

[sean12]

Whats modem initialization string?

select START
select Control Panel
Select phone and Modem
Select your modem
Select Advanced

Place the string here.

Sean

[Nickhyena]

ok, i've done that, still not working. Any other ideas? It's really annoying knowing I could be surfing at 50c a MB instead of R2 a MB.

:-(

[sean12]

ok, i've done that, still not working. Any other ideas? It's really annoying knowing I could be surfing at 50c a MB instead of R2 a MB.

:-(

What errors are you getting???

Are you sure it is a 128k SIM??? if it is, did you have a 64k sim before and did thet do a sim swap

Sean

[Skeptik]

Err..do you need Virgin to send the settings to you for that particular data card. I don't have one so just a guess. You can set them manually.

Check out the following sticky.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=49484


In GPRS phones there is a menu on the device or software for changing:
APN, Username,Password etc..
Do you see this anywhere?

All about APNs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Point_Name

[sean12]

ok, i've done that, still not working. Any other ideas? It's really annoying knowing I could be surfing at 50c a MB instead of R2 a MB.

:-(

Is the card working now.

I have just had a similar problem with VM. I had to make a chargeable call to get the 2nd half of the settings.

It new SIM is now working on my 3G MTN card.

If you can not setup the initialisation string via the modem the try it via Hyper Terminal.

Sean

[sean12]

I have got the NEW VM SIM working.

I had to go via the hyper terminal to setup the modem.

Query your modem in the control panel/modem setup.

check what cdgcont is set to.

Sean

[Boodles]

Dude phone your service provider. and if they cant help you, phone again and speak to someone else.

Also use opera to browse, it gives you the option of have no pics/cached pics or pics.