Meteor Modem huawei 173 €9

Solaris10

Meteor.ie Refurbished E173 Broadband Stick €9

plus €20 cashback from http://www.fatcheese.ie



https://store.meteor.ie/broadband

kdouglas

Thanks for that, always handy to have one of these lying about

toby2111

Anyone use one of these around Blackrock area in Louth?Have an o2 dongle but its kinda hit and miss.Might give meteor a go to see how it compares.

Kevin!

do these come locked does anyone know?

danjo-xx

Kevin! wrote: »

do these come locked does anyone know?

think you can be sure of that.

dave oc

Will the fatcheese offer mean you get €11 back if you buy one of the refurb modems? There was a similar thing at Christmas with Three and bethrifty.ie, I got that one and my cash back offer is still 'awaiting approval'

Eoinite

I missed out on the 3 offer so will definitely go for this one. As kdouglas says it's handy to have around especially if it gives you free wifi in certain areas.

Haven't had any problems getting cashback with fatcheese so far and I've now been paid over €100 from them. This offer was on their newsletter yesterday.

paddyp

Cheers, just ordered one.

red_fox

Nice one. I just joined fatcheese for this, I see that they have referrals, and one of the options is that the person referred gets €1 extra on their first transaction worth over €1 and the person referring gets nothing.

http://www.fatcheese.ie/?referrer=30016367&method=give

I don't get anthing out of this, I dislike referral spam but this seems ok to me. If this is not ok then please remove with my apologies.

5500

Is that €9 one PAYG or contract?

Fresh Pots

eireal wrote: »

Is that €9 one PAYG or contract?

PAYG

dabbler2004

Does anyone know if this can be easily unlocked online?

Ghost Train

dabbler2004 wrote: »

Does anyone know if this can be easily unlocked online?

think there was a free way to do it, posted in the 3 thread a month or two back

edit: here it is
worked for me
http://www.ruchirablog.com/guide-unlock-huawei-hsdpa-modem-free/

danjo-xx

Dave6195 wrote: »

Will the fatcheese offer mean you get €11 back if you buy one of the refurb modems? There was a similar thing at Christmas with Three and bethrifty.ie, I got that one and my cash back offer is still 'awaiting approval'

Me dongle is on the way and me €20 pending, my first bit of business with the great Fatcheese.:)

thanks again op.

bazwaldo

If I get one of these and unlock it, can I stick my vodafone PAYG sim card from my phone into it and paying the 99c per day get broadband? Or is it a separate sim card for broadband use?

Do-more

bazwaldo wrote: »

If I get one of these and unlock it, can I stick my vodafone PAYG sim card from my phone into it and paying the 99c per day get broadband? Or is it a separate sim card for broadband use?

Well I do that with my 3 phone sim without any problem, but I don't know whether Voda allows it,

Ghost Train

I'm still waiting on bethrifty.ie cash-back from november/december, vodafone & 3Mobile

Seriously slow system

paddyp

Got mine today, works grand on windows xp but not working on windows 7 - com port shows up eventually but no virtual cd. Does anyone know if the firmware from the e173u-1 will go into this e173u-2?

kc66

I have Meteor Bill pay lite with 250mb data add on. If I get this do I just put my sim into it and use my 250mb?

paddyp

Updated the firmware, no difference, rebooted to ubuntu and of course it all works perfectly. God bless ubuntu it is also the only operating system that plays well with my hp bluetooth module.

danjo-xx

kc66 wrote: »

I have Meteor Bill pay lite with 250mb data add on. If I get this do I just put my sim into it and use my 250mb?

this can only be used on PAYG, (Pay As You Go.)

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iPhone.

Got one delivered today, thanks OP.

Unlocked it and seems to work fine with the O2 sim from my phone

Handy as a backup as I don't need a frequent use one.

suppafly

been looking to get one of these things for a while. What the fatcheese reward money it makes it a great deal as your getting it for free basically and and €10. How long do fatcheese normally take to award the cashback?

Solaris10

got mine, unlocked it , supports voice call too, i have tested with vodafone sim.....

Fresh Pots

Solaris10 wrote: »

got mine, unlocked it , supports voice call too, i have tested with vodafone sim.....

How do you unlock it?

bazwaldo

TheTechGuy wrote: »

How do you unlock it?

Theres a link on an earlier post.

Solaris10, was the vodafone sim you tried a phone sim?

Fresh Pots

bazwaldo wrote: »

Theres a link on an earlier post.

Solaris10, was the vodafone sim you tried a phone sim?

Thanks, should have read the thread first!

Solaris10

i used mobile sim,

Yggr of Asgard

I wonder if fatcheese is actualy going to get 20€ from meteor for this or if they just are going to deny the cashback on this.

Even if Meteor is pumping up it's book by getting loads of active mobile broadband paygo customers selling something for 9€ (with no shipping cost) and than paying 20€ as cashback seams too good to be true.

Never the less, as refurbished E173 (which does HSDPA 7.2MBps never the less) to get the food in the door for the free Wifi on Meteor is just a too good bargain to pass on.

So I buy and even if I don't get cashback I still made a good bargain, so thanks OP.

Charlie Haughy

Can anyone tell me where to enter the code on fatcheese which you get from meteor in the confirmation order email ?

Fresh Pots

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where to enter the code on fatcheese which you get from meteor in the confirmation order email ?

You don't need to enter any code. You just need to click the get cashback button to bring you to the meteor website, then fatcheese knows you've bought from them and will credit your account with the €20. It may take a few minutes to appear.

Charlie Haughy

Oh right, because when I used the fatcheese site to order those €10 meteor phones a few weeks ago, I had to enter the code in the fatcheese site after ordering, but I cant seem to find that section now.

Yggr of Asgard

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Oh right, because when I used the fatcheese site to order those €10 meteor phones a few weeks ago, I had to enter the code in the fatcheese site after ordering, but I cant seem to find that section now.

Wait a coupel of hours, meteor should show up in the "Summary" page of fatcheese and you might get a verify transaction link (that happen to me too before).

If the meteor purchase does not show up in either "Summary" or "Statement" in a few days make sure that you can see your click in "My Clicks" and than submit a claim.

I have noticed that shopping at several retailers like House of Fraser, Debenhams usualy does not show up so I have several Claims pending.

toby2111

Using mine now,its no worse than my O2 dongle.In fact at the moment its actually a little quicker.Hopefully it stays that way,thanks OP!

danjo-xx

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danjo-xx

Ghost Train wrote: »

think there was a free way to do it, posted in the 3 thread a month or two back

edit: here it is
worked for me
http://www.ruchirablog.com/guide-unlock-huawei-hsdpa-modem-free/

Only the E172 is listed there

ecomac

@danjo-xx PM me if you are interested in unlocking this dongle

danjo-xx

ecomac wrote: »

@danjo-xx PM me if you are interested in unlocking this dongle

I got your pm, thanks, but no thanks.

Amalgam

DC-Unlocker unlock all the Meteor dongle models for €4 each.

http://www.dc-unlocker.com/

Here's their prices.

http://www.dc-unlocker.com/buy/user_prices

Never had a problem with them, quick and straightforward.

Huawei are slow to pull their finger out with Windows 7 (particularly 64bit). I've had trouble with anything below or at the E180.. No issues with the Huawei E182, works fine.

Any of the dongles work fine with the latest Mint\Ubuntu (Linux) etc..

Ghost Train

danjo-xx wrote: »

Only the E172 is listed there

I've only tried it with an E1550, not with the one in this thread

paddyp

Ghost Train wrote: »

I've only tried it with an E1550, not with the one in this thread

Don't worry it works fine witn this model. To the other poster in general don't pay much attention to compatibility lists on blog posts you can't expect them to maintain accurate or exhaustive lists.

Ghost Train

Guessed that, cheers for confirming

bazwaldo

Unlocked using http://www.bb5.at/huawei.php?imei=XXXXXXXXXX replacing the X's with my modems IMEI and the s/w linked in an earlier post.

My desktop didn't have the drivers for the modem but my laptop installed them fine using Windows Update and both running Win7 x86. I did install Meteors s/w which comes on the device in case that had the drivers.

Tested my PAYG vodafone sim and it worked. Hopefully my credit hasn't been wiped out. You wouldn't know with them.

And now my SIM won't work in my phone...... Yikes!

[EDIT] - Fixed - Putting the SIM in the right way round helped!

Kat1170

How does PAYG work. If I top up by say €10 do I have a certain time limit to use it or can I take as long as I like/need.

Cheers Joe

bazwaldo

Kat1170 wrote: »

How does PAYG work. If I top up by say €10 do I have a certain time limit to use it or can I take as long as I like/need.

Cheers Joe

Going by an earlier post, with Meteor you can pay daily, weekly or monthly and the data limits arent bad. I just used my vodafone phone sim so I am expecting to pay 99c for todays data use. The data limit using vodaphone PAYG is crap, something like 50mb.

Tinie

Is there a browser or firefox extension for example that allows you to view webpages in mobile formats? This would be handy as it would let you view far more pages and not use up data as quick.

Thanks

paddyp

@tinie You can install opera mini and use that use microemu to run the jar from opera.com http://microemu.org/

Alternatively use firefox addons useragent switcher to spoof a phone user agent and xhtml mobile profile to view the xhtml

m4rkiz

anyone checked if there is any free usage limit with this sim (there was free 1GB with three offer back in january)?

breathn

Ordered yesterday. Arrived today. Thanks OP.

paddyp

m4rkiz wrote: »

anyone checked if there is any free usage limit with this sim (there was free 1GB with three offer back in january)?

Theres none.

breathn

Unlocked for free using the guide and windows unlocking tool from earlier in the thread, with the codegen url.

My Meteor reception is so bad I got 1 bar of GPRS that would refuse to connect.

But an modern modem for €10 that I got unlocked for free. BARGAIN

Thanks OP!!!!