Sierra Wireless?

[riekertv]

Hi all,

I've bought an unlocked Sierra Aircard 860, and it works fine with vodacom. I put a virgin mobile sim in, and although it picks up the network, and shows full edge signal, as soon as i try to connect it gives me an error and then shows that there is no sim detected. Seeing as vm is 1/4 of other network's price, i'd really like to get this set up.

Any help?!

Thanks

 

[ginggs]

I've bought an unlocked Sierra Aircard 860, and it works fine with vodacom. I put a virgin mobile sim in, and although it picks up the network, and shows full edge signal, as soon as i try to connect it gives me an error and then shows that there is no sim detected. Seeing as vm is 1/4 of other network's price, i'd really like to get this set up.

You might need to get your SIM replaced.

 

[Academic]

Aircard 850 I suppose?

The 860 is for USA and the 850 for Europe.

I had the same issues with my 850. Updating Watcher and the firmware did help but it is not 100% perfect - evrey now and agaian I have to restart the modem.

 

[riekertv]

Sim replace

Thanks for the reply,

I spent some time on mybroadband last night, and read about the 64k issue. (I guess i should have done that before posting...)

I was told by someone at Virgin that i have to get a new simcard (128k).

Hopefully this will sort out the issues.

The card is an unlocked sierra card, bought from ebay, and works fine with all SA networks, have seen it connect with MTN, Voda, and Virgin. Cost-wise i guess it's no contest which network to use.