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Nickhyena

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Hi Guys,

I hope there is someone who can help here. I bought a vodacom data connect card (cash) a couple of weeks ago and am very pleased with the speed, connectivity etc, although R2 per MB is killing me cause I just can't help myself when surfing and always seem to be opening images, videos etc. So this morning I got a 128k virgin sim card. Its all set up and ready to go (and works to make phone calls etc). I put it in my data card to see if I could figure it out, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help, i'd very much appreciate it.

Cheers,

Nick
 
Nickhyena said:
Hi Guys,

I hope there is someone who can help here. I bought a vodacom data connect card (cash) a couple of weeks ago and am very pleased with the speed, connectivity etc, although R2 per MB is killing me cause I just can't help myself when surfing and always seem to be opening images, videos etc. So this morning I got a 128k virgin sim card. Its all set up and ready to go (and works to make phone calls etc). I put it in my data card to see if I could figure it out, but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help, i'd very much appreciate it.

Cheers,

Nick
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What APN are you using?

VM is "vdata"

Sean
 
Hi Sean,

thanks for your response. What is APN and where can I enter it. I was trying to get connected using the vodacom version 7 dashboard software, but I can't work out how to use it with the VM sim card. It works with VC sim card fine.

Cheers,

Nick
 
Nickhyena said:
Hi Sean,

thanks for your response. What is APN and where can I enter it. I was trying to get connected using the vodacom version 7 dashboard software, but I can't work out how to use it with the VM sim card. It works with VC sim card fine.

Cheers,

Nick
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I do not know any thing about the VC dashboard.

Try sending this to your modem in the modem intialisation string.

at+cgdcont=1,"ip","vdata","",0,0

Sean
 
I hope not, when I bought it I asked and they said its not network locked, and I called today and they confimed it.

Whats modem initialization string?
 
ok, i've done that, still not working. Any other ideas? It's really annoying knowing I could be surfing at 50c a MB instead of R2 a MB.

:-(
 
Nickhyena said:
ok, i've done that, still not working. Any other ideas? It's really annoying knowing I could be surfing at 50c a MB instead of R2 a MB.

:-(
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Is the card working now.

I have just had a similar problem with VM. I had to make a chargeable call to get the 2nd half of the settings.

It new SIM is now working on my 3G MTN card.

If you can not setup the initialisation string via the modem the try it via Hyper Terminal.

Sean
 
Dude phone your service provider. and if they cant help you, phone again and speak to someone else.

Also use opera to browse, it gives you the option of have no pics/cached pics or pics.
 
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