Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Broadband’
Changing IP on every request, 3 mobile broadband
Just had a really frustrating day with my 3 mobile broadband Internet connection. It seems on each HTTP request my IP address is changing. As with most mobile broadband connections you are on a giant subnet, the IP address that changes is the IP from the web server to the 3 proxy server, not from the proxy server to my router. My IP address is 94.197.147.xxx with the xxx part being a random 3 numbers for each request.
This causes a lot of problems. For normal web browsing its fine but for any websites that need a login this can be problematic. Your IP address is always a good unique piece of information that is hashed into a session key, so any site that does this will not recognise you from one request to the next. For example eBay was logging me out all the time and I could get nothing done.
Read the rest of this entry »SOLVED: Top Up T-mobile PAYG mobile broadband with Linux or router
Pay as you go mobile broadband data is normally the same price as the contract options with T-mobile and O2. However, a non Windows or Mac user (or if dongle is connected to a router) can easily top up online.
T-mobile is a little more difficult than O2. You get a swipe card to top up with but you still need to select the usage you wish to use to deduct from your credit (daily, weekly or monthly). This is easy with the connection manager software that comes with the dongles but all the software does is take you here www.t-zones.co.uk/apps/ebdc/en/purchase-redirect.
Read the rest of this entry »Mobile Broadband APN, Username and Password
If you are struggling to use your mobile broadband with a router and don’t know the settings, please find the information below useful.
Contract
| Provider | APN | Username | Password |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three | 3internet | username | password |
| o2 | mobile.o2.co.uk | o2web | password |
| Vodafone | internet | web | web |
| Orange | orangeinternet | orange | orange |
| T-mobile | general.t-mobile.uk | user | pass |
Pay as you go
| Provider | APN | Username | Password |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three | 3internet | username | password |
| o2 | m-bb.o2.co.uk | payandgo | payandgo |
| Vodafone | pp.vodafone.co.uk | wap | wap |
| Orange | consumerbroadband | Multimedia | Orange |
| T-mobile | general.t-mobile.uk | t-mobile | tm |
SOLVED: O2 Pay & Go Mobile Broadband on Ubuntu Karmic
I don’t know about other distro’s but the mobile broadband data in Ubuntu is inaccurate for O2 Pay and Go broadband. In Jaunty I could just use the Network Manager to correct the APN to m-bb.o2.co.uk. However, after upgrading to Karmic Beta, Network Manager seems to have a bug and does not save any edited connection data. This bug may be fixed in the final release but for now there is an easy solution to this problem.
Read the rest of this entry »