(1) I bought a PAYG mobile broadband dongle for my PowerBook the other day. The guy at 3 Mobile told me all the drivers were on the dongle itself, but turned out to be Windows only. So I went to their support site and finally found the right driver and program after a couple of attempts.
(2) The supplied program is terrible, every time you want to connect you need to enter your admin password and even then it failed every time. I therefore used the OS X Internet Connect to get online.
(3) Added to this, if you want to use the My3 portal to add top-up money and check usage, they send you a text message with a password. Unfortunately, if you have a Mac you can't receive this so you need a 3 Mobile Phone to put your SIM card in to get the password before you can use My3 - I put the SIM in my Virgin phone, didn't work! Wasn't going to get a new phone just for the password!
(4) While I was able to connect in 3G areas, in 2G areas authorization always failed.
(5) Took the dongle back after 4 days and got a refund, but they couldn't refund the £10 I spent on airtime to test the bl**ding thing.
Anyone else had the misfortune? Or actually got the software to work?
(2) The supplied program is terrible, every time you want to connect you need to enter your admin password and even then it failed every time. I therefore used the OS X Internet Connect to get online.
(3) Added to this, if you want to use the My3 portal to add top-up money and check usage, they send you a text message with a password. Unfortunately, if you have a Mac you can't receive this so you need a 3 Mobile Phone to put your SIM card in to get the password before you can use My3 - I put the SIM in my Virgin phone, didn't work! Wasn't going to get a new phone just for the password!
(4) While I was able to connect in 3G areas, in 2G areas authorization always failed.
(5) Took the dongle back after 4 days and got a refund, but they couldn't refund the £10 I spent on airtime to test the bl**ding thing.
Anyone else had the misfortune? Or actually got the software to work?