Cell C and Built-in 3g Modem

[mandana]

Hi All

I'd like to buy a Cell C prepaid sim and use it for data in my laptop.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 520 with a F5521gw internal card. Vodacom works perfectly using the VBM v 10.2 software.

Will a Cell C sim work with this type of modem and which Cell C software needs to used installed because they all seem to be stick type dependent.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advanced.

 

[sajunky]

Question is not whether SIM will work, but if modem supports UMTS 900MHz (frequency Cell C use). It depends where you bought laptop from: locally from official sources or imported. Check your laptop specification.
Regarding VBM, it is probably the biggest obstacle. You have to either uninstall VMB completely or go to the options menu and change two options:
- do not load on start up.
- unload from system tray when exit
Then you can use VMB for Vodacom and other dialer for any other. MDMA is nice.

 

[mandana]

Thanks for the response sa junky


From the Website



UMTS/3G operates in the following frequency ranges:

Uplink (Mobile Broadband Module to base-station)
800: 830 - 840 MHz
850: 824 - 849 MHz
900: 880 - 915 MHz
1900: 1850 - 1910 MHz
2100: 1920 - 1980 MHz
Downlink (Base-station to Mobile Broadband Module)
800: 875 - 885 MHz
850: 869 - 894 MHz
900: 925 - 960 MHz
1900: 1930 - 1990 MHz
2100: 2110 - 2170 MHz
GSM/GPRS/EDGE data at 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 1900 MHz
GSM Power Class:
MCS1-4 (GMSK): GSM850/900: Class 4/2W/33dBm GSM1800/1900: Class 1/1W/30dBm
MCS5-9 (8-PSK): GSM850/900: Class E2/0.5W/27dBm GSM1800/1900: Class E2/0.4W/26dBm
UMTS Power Class: Class 3 (24dBm)

So the modem does support Cell C's frequency. The Laptop was purchased locally and I will look into MDMA.

Thanks again

 

[sajunky]

Yip, it should be fine. Just remember how to deal with Vodafone bloatware.

 

[Reelix]

Yip, it should be fine. Just remember how to deal with Vodafone bloatware.

The day MDMA comes with modem drivers will be a good day indeed - Having to install bloatware packages for the sole purpose of drivers is frustrating >_>

 

[chrisc]

Linux has an app that connects 3G devices, then you don't need the Windows software

 

[sajunky]

Linux has an app that connects 3G devices, then you don't need the Windows software

Windows users don't need any application software too. Just go to Network connections and create new connection manually.

 

[sajunky]

The day MDMA comes with modem drivers will be a good day indeed - Having to install bloatware packages for the sole purpose of drivers is frustrating >_>

Possible, they would need to pay royality fees to ginggs.
I prefer a small application as is. No installators.
There are drivers-only packages for specific modem manufacturer. Besides when you plug in modem first time, autorun feature install modem drivers without asking, then when asked for installing software application, you can say no.
I don't know how it is in the case of laptop built modem, it must be some preinstalled stuff.