Samba 75 USB EDGE modem

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Hobbit

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I am renting a house on the West Coast for six months with no telephone line but there is HSDPA Vodacom coverage. I am considering buying a Samba 75 modem and using data bundles to connect to the Internet. Anyone have experience with these modems? Are they an OK buy? I am not a heavy user just email and light browsing.
 
These Samba modems only support GPRS and Edge. wich will give you anything from 5kb per sec to a max of propably around 80kb per sec. If your area has EDGE / 3g Towers in you area..

Cellphone internet is kinda unpredictable, therfor its kinda intermittent.
Signal drops every couple of hours, and sometimes no signal or internet access for hours. Depends on the network aswell
 
Hi,

The SAMBA 75 has been tested and approved for use by all 3 mobile network operators.

WireFree
 
I am trying to get the Samba75 configured and have got as far as getting the "Registering your device on the network" message but then I get "Error 734: PPP link control protocol terminated" and the connection shuts down. Have done the usual stuff to fix this (clicked the allow unsecured password on and the negotiate multilink for single link connections off... have also tried clicking the enable LCP extensions off) but no joy. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Hobbit said:
I am trying to get the Samba75 configured and have got as far as getting the "Registering your device on the network" message but then I get "Error 734: PPP link control protocol terminated" and the connection shuts down. Have done the usual stuff to fix this (clicked the allow unsecured password on and the negotiate multilink for single link connections off... have also tried clicking the enable LCP extensions off) but no joy. Anyone have any ideas?
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Have you tested your SIM for data connectivity, i.e. is it enabled for data?
 
Ha... suddenly it works... perhaps I was just impatient with data and gprs being enabled... but it did take more than 4 days... thanks V3g if you did anything in the background...
 
Hobbit said:
Ha... suddenly it works... perhaps I was just impatient with data and gprs being enabled... but it did take more than 4 days... thanks V3g if you did anything in the background...
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No nothing from my side (outside positive Karma!).

Your activation probably got stuck somewhere, either in someones head (more likely) or in the system (less likely).
 
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