Sidelong
Active Member
Hi V3G,
Just gone through your excellent FAQ again and in keeping with the request to "post sooner rather than later" here is a summary of what trouble I am having at the moment. Hopefully this thread will also include the resolution at the end of the day.
I have also noticed other forumites appear to have the same issue (if it has been resolved and I have missed it - apologies!)
I have an option card and I have upgraded to the latest firmware. I am NOT using the dash software (used it to set up the connections and now leave it off).
PROBLEMS:
1) connections do not disconnect. Have to do a hard reboot (or a VERY slow soft restart ... eg 15minutes). This is an issue because you cannot try disconnecting and reconnecting to improve speeds. (NOTE: This seems to have got worse over time. After I did the SIM swap to the 64k, this was much better - Friday last week. Since then it has deteriorated to not doing it at all. This puzzles me ... what could change over time ??
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2) sending large emails is an issue ... last night my total upload was over 17MB trying to send a 3MB email. With the new firmware managed to ZIP and split and send 4 150kB emails. (This may not be a card issue, perhaps smtp is ailing at the moment, but I don't know if this is new because I haven't needed to send large mail before.)
CONFIG:
Win XP Pro SP2, using Outlook XP for mail. Acer Travelmate 2.66GHz, 512MB
GPRS ONLY - I have no 3G out here
I have contacted 155 (2 days ago) and they have logged the fault. To date they are blaming intermittent GPRS issues for the mail. I have not logged the disconnect issue yet - will do so now.
Thanks in advance.
Just gone through your excellent FAQ again and in keeping with the request to "post sooner rather than later" here is a summary of what trouble I am having at the moment. Hopefully this thread will also include the resolution at the end of the day.
I have also noticed other forumites appear to have the same issue (if it has been resolved and I have missed it - apologies!)
I have an option card and I have upgraded to the latest firmware. I am NOT using the dash software (used it to set up the connections and now leave it off).
PROBLEMS:
1) connections do not disconnect. Have to do a hard reboot (or a VERY slow soft restart ... eg 15minutes). This is an issue because you cannot try disconnecting and reconnecting to improve speeds. (NOTE: This seems to have got worse over time. After I did the SIM swap to the 64k, this was much better - Friday last week. Since then it has deteriorated to not doing it at all. This puzzles me ... what could change over time ??
)2) sending large emails is an issue ... last night my total upload was over 17MB trying to send a 3MB email. With the new firmware managed to ZIP and split and send 4 150kB emails. (This may not be a card issue, perhaps smtp is ailing at the moment, but I don't know if this is new because I haven't needed to send large mail before.)
CONFIG:
Win XP Pro SP2, using Outlook XP for mail. Acer Travelmate 2.66GHz, 512MB
GPRS ONLY - I have no 3G out here
I have contacted 155 (2 days ago) and they have logged the fault. To date they are blaming intermittent GPRS issues for the mail. I have not logged the disconnect issue yet - will do so now.
Thanks in advance.
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