Specifically designed for Windows 2000 and XPĢ. System requirements for Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G broadband data cardġ. Monitor approximately how much data you transfer, and how long you connect. Send and receive SMS text messages through your computerĤ. Find the address of the nearest Vodafone Wireless LocalArea Network (WLAN) location, also known as a hotspot, and make a connection* - for example, use WLAN in a hotel or an airport loungeģ. Make mobile data connections over the Vodafone network - for example, to browse the internet or pick up your emailĢ. Once you have installed the Vodafone Mobile Connect software (using the CD enclosed in this pack), you'll be able to:ġ. The Vodafone Mobile Broadband software makes it easy to connect online so you can access your email, web browser and company network. Always Best Connected (ABC) feature updates Easy to use interface for common tasks, and access to software and configuration settings through advanced view.ħ. Support for Windows 7 Mobile Broadband API and compatible devicesĦ. Compatibility and integration with Vista and Window 7:ĥ. Access to a variety of Vodafone value added services (depending on your service contract)Ĥ. Overall I am happy with the new drivers – it’s certainly a better way to integrate with Windows, and the connection seems to be much more reliable.Vodafone Mobile Broadband (formerly Vodafone Mobile Connect) includes everything you need to open a mobile network or WLAN Wireless Local Area Network connections from your laptop or notebook.ģ. This new feature for Windows 7 allows applications to access your GPS data through a standard API, for example Google Chrome can use this to position you on Google maps! I have not got this to work so far but I am hoping that’s because I have no GPS signal indoors. One *very *exciting feature that I just stumbled upon when researching this article is the Windows 7 Sensor compatible GPS Location driver that gets installed. For instance, when I am connected, it ALWAYS seems to display UMTS as the connection type, even though I know I am on HSDPA. There is not as much status information available as when using Wireless Manager. I can’t find a way to do this with the new setup Using Wireless Manager it was possible to force the connection to only use HSDPA etc. There are only a couple of negatives I have discovered so far: Here you can enter the APN and username/password if required by your ISP. Note: This is completely different than if you select properties in the Network Connections windows. To do this you need to go to the networks list and right click, show properties. There is only one trick you may need for setting the APN. You can set it to automatically connect when there is no other connection available, which is quite handy and works quite well. One obvious change is that it shows up in the networks list accessed via the system tray like so: It integrates with Windows differently to a dialup modem. I am not sure if this device type was available in Vista, but I have certainly never seen it before. The upshot of this is that, after installing these drivers you don’t need any third party software to get online! The new driver actually gets the broadband card to show up as… (drum roll). This is what made it particularly tricky to setup. The previous driver installs your broadband card as an old school modem (with COM ports et al). This driver is radically different from the previous one. Either way, all the drivers are much newer :) Some devices are dated and version 1.0.0.52. The drivers are also HCL certified by Microsoft. The crucial thing about the new driver is the change in version from 4.4.50.6.0 (dated ) to. It comes as a Setup.exe, including both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers.Īfter installing the new driver (no need to uninstall the previous one), you will have the following new devices in device manager:į3507g Mobile Broadband Driver (Network Adapters)į3507g Mobile Broadband Device Management (COM3) The new filename is 7uw706ww.zip (direct download link), and comes in at 40MB (10 MB smaller than the last driver). Just to make things extra confusing (and harder to find) they removed the actual card model number from the description. The driver is now listed under Vodafone and AT&T Wireless WAN (HSPA) Driver. You would never know from glancing at the downloads page because it doesn’t list versions numbers or publish dates. It’s become clear from comments on my previous article, that Lenovo have released a new Windows 7 driver for the Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband card. Update: Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband on Windows 7 with Lenovo Thinkpad 14 October, 2009
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