HOT E1820

Mach III

Mach III

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Need to know if all E1820's heat up while connected.
(without external factors)
After 10 minutes of it plugged in, mine is hot hot..
Is this normal?
 
bdt said:
May well be, mine's been at the 'ouch, that is HOT' level ..which is a fair bit past 'ok, that's kinda warm'.
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The reason I'm asking is because the Cell C technician said the heat could be causing it to switch from hspa+ to wcdma... But if yours is hot too, and you are not experiencing this then.. That means there is nothing wrong with my stick!

so.... do you experience switching between hspa+ and wcdma, and or disconnects...

please say no! :(
 
HSPA+ and WCDMA is pretty much the same. From what I've had a technician explain and HSPA+ is used when your demand increases and WCDMA when you just browsing a site.

Mine used to run pretty hot plugged into my PC but now runs cool while connected to my router .
 
MightyMuffinMan said:
HSPA+ and WCDMA is pretty much the same. From what I've had a technician explain and HSPA+ is used when your demand increases and WCDMA when you just browsing a site.

Mine used to run pretty hot plugged into my PC but now runs cool while connected to my router .
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I am planning on purchasing a router as soon as they have the specific one that I want in stock. So by what you are saying, Our modem shouldn't get as hot once in the router?
 
MightyMuffinMan said:
HSPA+ and WCDMA is pretty much the same. From what I've had a technician explain and HSPA+ is used when your demand increases and WCDMA when you just browsing a site.

Mine used to run pretty hot plugged into my PC but now runs cool while connected to my router .
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But when on WCDMA, The xbox live disconnects
 
Mach III said:
The reason I'm asking is because the Cell C technician said the heat could be causing it to switch from hspa+ to wcdma... But if yours is hot too, and you are not experiencing this then.. That means there is nothing wrong with my stick!

so.... do you experience switching between hspa+ and wcdma, and or disconnects...

please say no! :(
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I'm trialling being Joe Normal with this whole thing so I *haven't* been excessively/obsessively (ok, except for download speeds; so far I think I've seen a file come in at ~900KB (yes kids, that's kiloBYTES)/sec)) checking which connection type I'm on - frankly, I don't (want to) care, I want it to just WORK (dammit!) :rolleyes: ..and, in the main, that's just what it does.

So, to clearly confirm that for you: no, I've had no correlation between (excessive) heat and disconnects ..frankly, my experience has been exceptional in NOT getting disconnected/the modem locking up or any of that kark. And I'm LOVING it. :cool:
 
I'm pretty much in the same boat as bdt. Just f'ing work... Speed above 30KB/s or so is a bonus. I've seen it download at 12000bps ie. 1.5MB/s before. And yes it get's hot.
 
Do you have to come here and brag?? hahaha... Mine has been disconnecting since day one... My download speeds got to 625KBps... It's just the disconnecting is the problem when playing xbox live... And on warcraft 3 i dropped 4lvls for disconnecting, that is about 58matches!
 
Ok, so I'm guessing it's another one of: "i have confirmed with my supervisor and with the suppliers, that...indeed... the e1820 is not compatible with the i5 processor....sorry"... (cell c technician)
 
Mach III said:
Ok, so I'm guessing it's another one of: "i have confirmed with my supervisor and with the suppliers, that...indeed... the e1820 is not compatible with the i5 processor....sorry"... (cell c technician)
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I have heard of an issue with some i5 and i7 based MacBook Pros, maybe they are just confused.
 
Yip, I did a google search after the 'weird' phone call, and I found the i5/i7 macbook thread...
 
bdt said:
Burning (ha!) question: with the Core iX MBPs, is the compatibility problem in OSX (alone) or (also) when running Windows? (..or should I just confirm that for myself...?)
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I think it's just they don't have macbook drivers..
 
Mach III said:
Ok, so I'm guessing it's another one of: "i have confirmed with my supervisor and with the suppliers, that...indeed... the e1820 is not compatible with the i5 processor....sorry"... (cell c technician)
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*cough*bullshit*cough* ..I have just, with a MINIMUM of fuss (and no restarts):
  • jacked my stick into a Logitech powered USB hub (it's on the desk, it's just easier than finding a place anywhere on the box)
  • run through Win7/64, 4GB RAM on an Intel DH55HC board (with i5 750 CPU) stick detection and app installation
  • pulled down an OSS OCR app off code.google (that THEN wanted a KARKload download (it depends on Visual C++ Express, which call down SQL Server nonsense; it costs ~200meg worth of bytes)
  • installed shit left, right and centre, RUN same
  • ...and nothing but what >I< wanted to do has happened. The whole time.
So, this M$FT kark I installed demands a restart ..*shrug*, it's part of the PC experience. I figure I'll just pull a commercial OCR app when I come back - just in case the OSS one doesn't work. :cool: ("bother" said Pooh! - the OSS one flopped, I have to pull the other one too ..oh well.) FYI, funky download pattern here.
 
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