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From: CJB on 29 Apr 2010 09:10
Am in a bar in Central London with my Three dongle in my Acer
notebook. BUT I cannot even send emails - the connection keeps timing
out, disconnecting / reconnecting, refusing to browse or to send input
such as emails, etc. This is worse than when I started with Three
before Xmas. Improved network? Rubbish (or words to that effect) ...
CJB.
From: Steve Terry on 29 Apr 2010 18:48
"CJB" <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Am in a bar in Central London with my Three dongle in my Acer
> notebook. BUT I cannot even send emails - the connection keeps timing
> out, disconnecting / reconnecting, refusing to browse or to send input
> such as emails, etc. This is worse than when I started with Three
> before Xmas. Improved network? Rubbish (or words to that effect) ...
> CJB.
>
>
Which email supplier, what settings/ports?

No problem here with googlemail and yahoomail using ssl ports

Steve Terry
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From: Ian Smith on 2 May 2010 03:14
Cross-posting to uk.telecom removed

On 29/04/2010 14:10, CJB wrote:
> Am in a bar in Central London with my Three dongle in my Acer
> notebook. BUT I cannot even send emails - the connection keeps timing
> out, disconnecting / reconnecting, refusing to browse or to send input
> such as emails, etc. This is worse than when I started with Three
> before Xmas. Improved network? Rubbish (or words to that effect) ...
> CJB.

I've just come back from a short break in Wales, where coverage is
usually poor but I've had 100% mobile broadband in both places I
stayed, but neither of us are in a position to make sweeping
generalisations about coverage.

regards, Ian
From: CJB on 4 May 2010 20:01
On May 2, 8:14 am, Ian Smith <news0807REMOVEC...(a)orrery.e4ward.com>
wrote:
> Cross-posting to uk.telecom removed
>
> On 29/04/2010 14:10, CJB wrote:
>
> > Am in a bar in Central London with my Three dongle in my Acer
> > notebook. BUT I cannot even send emails - the connection keeps timing
> > out, disconnecting / reconnecting, refusing to browse or to send input
> > such as emails, etc. This is worse than when I started with Three
> > before Xmas. Improved network? Rubbish (or words to that effect) ...
> > CJB.
>
> I've just come back from a short break in Wales, where coverage is
> usually poor but I've had 100% mobile broadband in both places I
> stayed, but neither of us are in a position to make sweeping
> generalisations about coverage.
>
> regards, Ian

Bad weekend for Three broadband with dongle. I think they upgraded the
dongle s/w and whilst it works fine with XP the rumoured to be on the
way snafu with Win 7 seems to have come about. Apparently the s/w on
the dongle uses out-of-date dlls (recycled?) and the connection with
Win 7 is very intermitent. On my laptop with XP the connections are
usually fine, first time start up, connection stable, quite fast,
never dropping out. But with Win 7 on my Acer netbook the connection
takes a long time to actually connect after many failed attempts -
even though I get 5 bars of signal, and then during a browsing session
there are repeated disconnects and reconnects. The situation is so
dire with Win 7 that I am on the point of telling Three they can go
screw their service and I'll get mobile broadband from another
network. CJB.
From: Theo Markettos on 5 May 2010 09:48
In uk.telecom.mobile CJB <chrisjbrady(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Bad weekend for Three broadband with dongle. I think they upgraded the
> dongle s/w and whilst it works fine with XP the rumoured to be on the
> way snafu with Win 7 seems to have come about. Apparently the s/w on
> the dongle uses out-of-date dlls (recycled?) and the connection with
> Win 7 is very intermitent.

I was having similar problems (MF627 dongle, Linux) with Three over the
weekend... with many connections only lasting a few minutes then dropping.
I put that down to the dongle (which is quite flaky and tends to drop where
other hardware stays up, and frequently needs powercycling) but maybe there
were network problems too.

Theo
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