Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hardwick
Gianluca Sforna wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Dan Williams wrote: We can hack something together with F11 perhaps, and on F12 it's even easier. You can try to enter your providers' MCC/MNC (a 6-digit number for the US, 5 digits for everywhere else) in the connection editor in the

Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs

2009-09-23 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > We can hack something together with F11 perhaps, and on F12 it's even > easier.  You can try to enter your providers' MCC/MNC (a 6-digit number > for the US, 5 digits for everywhere else) in the connection editor in > the "Network" entry and N

Re: Avoiding 3G roaming costs

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:14 +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi, > I recently bought from a Huawei based USB dongle and it seems > NetworkManager works pretty well with it; however I later discovered I > dried out my account's credit (it's a prepaid contract) by attempting > the connection in a plac

Avoiding 3G roaming costs

2009-08-27 Thread Gianluca Sforna
Hi, I recently bought from a Huawei based USB dongle and it seems NetworkManager works pretty well with it; however I later discovered I dried out my account's credit (it's a prepaid contract) by attempting the connection in a place not covered by the network (so the roaming tariff applied). I thi