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Have downloaded the….http://www.mobileconnected.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/software/VMCLite_E220_3_0_3_112_standard.exe…..update, but connection NO faster. REALLY upset, as speed was fine with previous laptop, which also ran Vista.

Anyone got any ideas?
I could put up with the speed between pages, but it tok 2 and a half HOURS to download one song, and YouTube is totally unusable.

PLEASE can someone help?

Thanks
Jo
(Total ‘puter novice!lol)

What colour’s the light on the modem? If it’s green then you’re in GPRS coverage and it’s going to crawl… it needs to be light blue for broadband.

It’s green…I know I only hav ‘2g’ coverage, but, like I say, it was still REALLY fast with my original computer, so I can’t understand why it is s slow with my current one. I could CRY!

Tried to downlad the Dashboard thingy-me from here, too. It said it would take over 10 hors, then, after about 2 it said is couldn’t do it, for some reason?
I would really appreciaate any help with this….

This is not directly helpful with regards the issues here, but I have had no end of problems with Voda’s USB E220 3G modem. Tried it on two ASUS laptops with Win XP/SP2 and it flat out did not work on one, and was flaky (charitable description really) on the other. At over £50/month for dead air it was just unacceptable.

Eventually a nice - and knowledgeable…he knew what TCP/IP actually was for example - gave me a 70-odd MByte app that was heaps better than the VMCLite software. I also had to disable the device in Windows so it was not being recognised as a Driver so Windows did not try and autostart the onboard VMC app when you plugged it in (downside, it was then tied to one USB port and if you plugged it into another you had to find the device at the VMC hardware level again. A total pain when you are using it with a laptop and using the device to demonstrate software).

When I bought a new computer with Vista the bigger VMC app worked so long as I installed it in ‘XP Emulation’ mode. It still seemed tied to the USB port, but I got used to that.

So, make the call to Voda support and demand to be put through the second level help desk and thence an expert in the USB modem. They will do it if you harrass then hard enough. Ask for the mainstream VMC application and instructions on how to enable it and you should be OK.

Finally, I saw that Voda has recently reduced the tariff to around £30/month (both in response to 3 offering a better rate with the same hardware and because they have the new 7 Mbps USB 3G modem at about £50/month). If are paying the original £50/month rate and you go into a store and ask nicely - and perhaps suggest you’ll defect to 3 - they just might bring you down to the lower rate, even if you are still in your £50 contract period. Worked for me, so good luck to you…

i have the Voda’s USB E220 3G modem then the light is light bule all the time, still dont get boradband speed. i get about 5-10 kps downloading if i ping a website in cmd it avrage 1500 ms, if im lucky i might get maybe 1-2 hrs good speed per day,tbh for the money i pay it not good… , downloading updates trying to now 3.65kps… going to be here all day. ive tryed, on my pc and laptop but dosent seem to make any diffrence, is any one having the same problem? like geting 1 hr or to good internet per day ?

I have the Huawei E220 USB Modem on 3`s network, It was working fine with vista, even after vista`s release of SP1 RC1 it was still working no problem, then I defragged my HD and BOOM, gone, “Fail to create RasEntry” was all I could get from it, so I made an XP partition and donwloaded all the new firmare and dashboard doftware for it, installed it and killed the modem even in XP, I was devistated, what was I going to tell 3, they could check the IMEI number and realise the firmware was different and charge me £100 for a new modem, so I flashed it with the Vodafone Firmware, still no luck, back to the one I had originally downloaded, STILL no luck, changed the dashboard, flashed, dashboard, flash, DEAD, couldn`t get it to work at all, then remembered I had backup up the original dashboard software and installed that along with the new one and POP it came back to life, I don`t understand what happened but all I can see is that the firmware update was working the whole time, but the dashboard was the wrong one.

To cut a long story short I discovered that my E220 modem was faulty ( at least that what Vodafone said ) and after two days of pestering them I got one month subs credited to me and a new E220 for €49 ( basically free ).

Woohoo , new dashboard , 3G+ signal most of the time and speeds that make it worthwhile using at last.

Alas my happiness was short lived. Now its stops every two hours and to get it going again I have to close VMCLite, unplug the modem, close windows down (restart will not do it) and then when Vista is ready plug it back in again. Cannot find any reason why this should happen.

Any ideas anyone?

New mobile connect V3 upgrade available as well as firmware upgrade higher than version 11.117.09.00.00 Thought you guys should know.

Regards

hi i just wanted to know why a modem would make a noise when connected to the internet

my vodafone mobile connect lite modem keeps disconnecting ifself sporadically. If you click back on the conect button an error message comes up.
I find that if I open the Task Manager window and close the application manually, unplug the modem them reconnct again, it usually restarts OK and reconnects.
Bloody frustrating. James Bond doesn’t have this trouble.
Any suggestions? (with the modem, not the vodka martinis)

Hi
does anyone know how to know the exact amount of download remained (not view usage) cause it will restart from the begining whenever u format ur laptop or even uninstall & reinstall the program

Jason, I got that behaviour when the Usage settings in VMC Lite were set too low - it’s like an auto-disconnect to stop you exceeding your monthly usage. Go into ‘View Usage’ and set the figure to be higher. (I think 50Mb is the default the software sets it to, 5Gb would be more like it dpending on your subscription)

Hi,

Have a work laptop that I would like to use the E272 with but I don’t have admin rights to let it install the software.

Does anyone have any suggestions to work around this?

Cheers

G

Ali, I have the same problem. Have no idea why, but it started after I installed other Huawei (but not Vodafone) modem…

But I still try to uderstand how to get this “disconnecting” off.

For all my comrades in Vodafone retail I thank you for this site. It is of great value for installing/fixing 3g data devices and we all wish our parent company would learn from the clear and consise approach to our modems shown here.

Hi Ronald,

Is the laptop xp/vista?
If xp, ask work IT to give you power user rights.

I recently Purchased the Dongle thingy from Vodafone what bliss. here was me thinking that 14.4k modems were dead. and my brilliant dongle with its 3.6mb speed cant even connect me fast enough to reach 56k speeds.

I downloaded a picture about 500×500 it took 4 minutes. when i connect to Google even with the google image that takes that long i can make a cup of tea come back and its still loading the page.

i pay £15 per month for 3gig im lucky after a month if ive even reached 1gig with the ammount of time it takes to load a page.

yet after about 2am when all you dongle folk are in bed fast asleep i can actually reach quite fast speeds. So my theory is i’ll wait until your all in bed tucked up fast asleep and i might be able to actually download something lol

Take a look at http://www.business.vodafone.com for the latest software updates and faq’s

B1 3AS Problems with Vodafone.

OK OK OK ……..I’ve ended up here out of pure frustration.

Over the last week or so my previously reliable Vodafone E270 has started to run believably slow, 1-2-3 kbps at times and as we use it for work its drove me crackers, so I attached it to my laptop and took it to the front of the factory - and guess what ………………….., back up to full speed and stable - ish, I have looked at all the comments in this forum, and considering that this thing has been running fine for months I think the software upgrade etc. are irrelevant.

Then it set me off thinking the Sony Ericsson 960i that was fault ridden (so I believed) that I have already returned to Vodafone, may just of kept freezing over because the reception has become so desperate in this area !?!!??!?!?? B1 3AS - Birmingham Jewellery Quarter.

Hang on - my reception is dropping again, let me just go upstairs on to the factory roof……………….., ahhhhh that’s better.

I am no expert, but I am an engineer - and this really just looks like Vodafone has bitten off more than it can chew - and there system is becoming saturated, when I signed up for the Broadband Modem - it was on the basis that I could try it here and see if the reception (3G) was OK for us, at the time it was - but now it isn’t - be warned.

And if you think that I’m going to be fobbed off - think again there are other posts on the net from people in exactly the same post code having the same problems, Vodafone have said that there is not a problem in this area, well there is ……..whoops - nearly toppled off the roof trying to hey higher to improve the reception.

Come on Vodafone - I pay a lot for this service, as I was one of the first in, COME CLEAN - before I kill myself either clambering over the building with laptop in one hand or simply by me throwing myself over the edge in desperation.

Sammy

hii… i have installed E220 on my Laptop with Vista Ultimate.. it works.. but why it’s work so slowly..
under 30 kb/s.. how can i get it more FAST?? Should i download the firmware?? any ideas about this??
please send me the solution in here or on my email:
aversandro_27@yahoo.com
THANKS….

all the way from kenya.
would like to unlock my usb modem
all you guys are talking about has to do with your local service providers.
can sme 1 assist me with a universal software for doing this.

cheers

Ha,ha, I am too trying to hang off my balcony to get some signal! Moved in and was fine for two weeks, then after the two weeks when you can no longer return it.. it doesn’t work, cuts out all the time, no connection, sometimes completely no signal!

How can they make you pay for something for another 18 months when it doesn’t work?! I don’t have enough time to wait for one email to send for ten minutes!!

Oops we’ve disconnected again, surprise! I will soon launch this thing off the balcony!!!

HI…..

I have got colour turquoise solid color and i have got blue solid colour but my internet is too slow in signal i have like 2 colors in there but my internet is too slow and my voda is HUAWEI E220 and my signal level is too low and my loading of internet is too slow too can you help me the signal is too strong ???? please!!!!