[Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial
Hello everyone, Does anyone the list have any experience with the Vodafone pay-monthly dongle and the wvdial package? Before I sign up for one, was it straightforward to get working or are there any show stoppers? For what its worth, I want to use it for a remote monitoring station which will be based around a TP-Link TL-WR703N running the OpenWRT distro and some USB sensors. I am expecting data requirements to be moderately low and after a bit of searching I think Vodafone's £3 for 250MB per month contract with a £19 upfront fee for the dongle works out most cost effective. Of course, any advice on cheaper deals would be much appreciated. (I have looked at using prepaid 3G or GPRS via an old phone, but it appears all the best deals are time limited and the Vodafone contract wins out after the first few months.) Many thanks, Neil -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial
On 17/12/12 21:51, NeilS wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone the list have any experience with the Vodafone pay-monthly dongle and the wvdial package? Before I sign up for one, was it straightforward to get working or are there any show stoppers? For what its worth, I want to use it for a remote monitoring station which will be based around a TP-Link TL-WR703N running the OpenWRT distro and some USB sensors. I am expecting data requirements to be moderately low and after a bit of searching I think Vodafone's £3 for 250MB per month contract with a £19 upfront fee for the dongle works out most cost effective. Of course, any advice on cheaper deals would be much appreciated. (I have looked at using prepaid 3G or GPRS via an old phone, but it appears all the best deals are time limited and the Vodafone contract wins out after the first few months.) Many thanks, Neil I've had quite favourable experience using a Vodafone *pre-paid* dongle, bought from Amazon a long time back. Vodafone provide good support using their own GUI driver package, but I've also had it working using wvdial. iirc I just had to use wvdialconf to get the dongle recognised, then plugged in the appropriate user name (web) and password (web) and access point name. HTH Ian -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial
Haven't used wvdial (at least not directly). But I have used the same VF dongle on Debian Wheezy through netork manager. You'll probably need details about the device which aren't immediately obvious, but I found them using VF's Win7 utility. Good luck, Tim B. -- Hampshire Linux User Group Chairman -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Vodafone USB dongle and wvdial
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: > Haven't used wvdial (at least not directly). But I have used the same VF > dongle on Debian Wheezy through netork manager. You'll probably need > details > about the device which aren't immediately obvious, but I found them using > VF's > Win7 utility. I signed for the Vodafone contract - Will let you all know if I encounter any problems but I am expecting it to be plain sailing now. Thanks very much for the advice! Neil -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
