Novatel V5 dashboard

wizard

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I have beta tested the V5 dashboard software now for a week and am happy to say 90% of all my drop connections and abnormal dashboard closing are a thing of the past

1) I have update the card’s firmware and have experience that the card do NOT run as hot as it used to before the update, this help the drop connections a fear bit as I find the drop connections only start and persist when the card are warm.

2) V5 dashboard, I have a number of problems with the V4 as the software just decided to close down after about 2~ hours of use, this I have found are a problem with a memory leak in the software. This are fixed with V5 and find that the software remains stable and open

A small problem I found with the IE and the DUN, that after you open IE it takes about 30sec before you can open a site and the response are bit slow, this are fixed by uncheck the “automatically detect setting ON the DUN connection settings.

One problem I detected with V5 are that after no traffic on the card for about 8~10 min the connect are dropped, can connect immediately without any problem, I have look at all the normal settings but could not find where you can turn this off, Is not a DUN setting or Power settings, will need to look a bit further to resolve this, But at the moment it’s not a problem as when I use the DUN it remains on and stable.

Well I’m much more please with the firmware and V5 and I have no need to reconnect constantly and reload the web pages

Also please bear in mind I use the dashboard as what you would use any other program, open it , connect and stay online, I’m using MS Terminal server, VPN and ASP Apps and It works beautifully.

I believe from V3G that V5 dashboard will soon be released and hopefully have a number of more satisfied users on this forum using 3G.
 
I think I'm having the same "memory leaks" you talk about. With the external antenna and 64k sim card I have much more stable connections than before. however after an hour or 2 my computer still shows that it is connected (on the dash and on the bottom right of the screen) but all links to the internet are gone. There is nothing I can do that will show I'm disconnected. Applications on my laptop freeze, it won't shut down and I have to do a hard shut down.

How can I fix this? If this keeps on much longer I fear the hard shutdowns are going to damage something.
 
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