From 3GB to 10GB: 3 has one more go at me!

culabula

The changeover happened at midnight tonight and here's exactly what happened -a close shave indeed.

I had the datamodem's SIM in a 6630 to monitor proceedings on Planet3 from 23:50.

at 00:01 all voice and SMS facilities were withdrawn (working earlier today).
at 00:10 the allocation was updated to 10 gigs.

In tandem with this, it was apparent that the speed on the phone was no longer quite so sluggish -the 'feel' was such that it appeared the update had cleaned out and blown away certain cobwebs.

And so I returned the SIM to the datamodem and there I lost whatever hair remains to me. It would no longer connect. Try as I might, it just didn't want to know. This appeared to bear out the legend on the website 'HSDPA networks' -and there isn't one on 3UK (I'm in bed in Belfast, trivia fans).

The word 'bullocks' except with an O instead of the U was uttered repeatedly.

Panicked, I stuck it in the N95 where it worked again instantly! I surfed Planet 3 and a few other sites -once again the speed bump was obvious but that doesn't really compensate for going back to the BT modem route (one of the advantages of the datamodem is that it needs no charging but also does not noticeably draw on power from the MacBook).

Returned it to the datamodem and tried again this time willing it to life. No go! not once, nor twice. On the third attempt it suddenly woke up and began authenticating, the blue light came on and -am back in business! This e-pistle comes to you from it right now.

So -once again the 3 blurb is confusing and not to be listened to. It DOES roam on 3's 3G networks and is NOT confined to HSDPA only.Those whacky funsters over at 3 Ireland, eh?

Hurray! (rolls over and goes to sleep, relieved).

Irish Wolf

culabula wrote:

(I'm in bed in Belfast, trivia fans).

I always admired your level of detail cula - but just a little too much information this time ..

Glad things are working out up north..

culabula

Irish Wolf wrote:

I always admired your level of detail cula - but just a little too much information this time ..

Just be thankful I didn't upload a pic...:p

Irish Wolf

culabula wrote:

Just be thankful I didn't upload a pic...:p

Speaking of which I was thinking about uploading a few pics to flickr using the modem - but methinks it might just take almost forever... actually I might give it a bash tomorrow if I get a few minutes...

I can see 10Gb disappearing very quickly doing that on a regular basis...

Yggr of Asgard

culabula, thanks for updating us about the change from 3 GB to 10 GB, I'm now looking forward to mine and my trip over to the UK and Sweden to see if I can also get on the normal "3" network where there is no "HSDPA".

However knowing 3 have you checked that what you surfed has gone down from you allowance and is not being billed as roaming :rolleyes:

culabula

dublin-texas wrote:

culabula, thanks for updating us about the change from 3 GB to 10 GB, I'm now looking forward to mine and my trip over to the UK and Sweden to see if I can also get on the normal "3" network where there is no "HSDPA".

However knowing 3 have you checked that what you surfed has gone down from you allowance and is not being billed as roaming :rolleyes:

But of course -though, really, they would have to advertise this in the first place and in the second it would be in clear breach of '3 Like Home' and a very silly retrograde step were they to attempt this.

culabula

Actually 3 speak with slightly forked tongue: SMS-MT is still possible after all on the 10GB tariff.