Author: Isaac Close Date: To: hampshire Subject: [Hampshire] [hants][OT] Vodafone usb broadband dongle problems.
hello there,
I have 2 mobile broadband dongles, one is three and the other vodafone.
Both are on Pay as You go.
The three dongle usually operates with no problems, coverage can be low at times, but generally its good and its also cheap.
The Vodafone option however has become problematic, I have not had the time to sit down and analyse this to any depth so far, but I wonder if anyone else has had similar problems or has any information that maybe useful.
It looks like vodafone users all go through a proxy of some sort, but lately this has been causing me (and another) problems.
For example, I get gateway error and timeout related http responses, yet using a 'normal' line, no such errors exist.
Now, the worst problem and its happening again today, is that I keep getting forced to sign in to ebay arbitrarily, but when I submit, no errors or such return, just a standard sign in page re-appears and thus i am locked out (i run a business on ebay and this is started to work my nerve).
This has occured on on several occasions, on two seperate laptops, two seperate (but identical) dongles, in two different areas, one machine running something called 'windows vista' and the other ubuntu 9.04.
I've spoken to ebay (on the phone), and they assured me of no downtime on their system, but more importantly i've filed a report with them and asked them to log my failed login attempts.
