Surprisingly, I was able to buy the device this morning with minimal fuss. I mean, the transaction did take an hour and a half (closing on house was easier), but to T-mobile's credit they did keep all the discounts on my account and other goodies.
I was promised the device was "Plug n' Play" and would be ready to use in 15 minutes.
We got on the road, and I decided to plug the sucker in. The install process was fine, and a reboot later I was to connect to the internet while cruising up route 95.
It was a big no-go. I got some error about the connection being in use.
I called my buddies at T-mo tech support. They were kind enough to fix that error. But now I get error 633: the modem (or other connecting device) is already in use or not configured properly.
Two hours of fiddling later, the connection still doesn't work and work that I could have done on my laptop unconnected remains incomplete.
Ugh.
T-mobile tells me I need to give them 24 hours to let the service get fully in sync with my account and then I should call them back.
Argh. What a pain.
I love my Verizon EVDO USB card. Can't live without it, and the bandwidth is surprisingly good.
ReplyDeleteI use my blackberry curve in modem mode (shh...don't tell US Cellular) on the train all of the time. Works great and I don't have to carry about another peripheral.
ReplyDeleteI use my rooted G1. Worked great when we drove to Miami this past summer... I was able to surf the net at well 3g speeds... well really only Edge since many areas still don't have T-Mobile 3G yet. One of these days I have to try out Lauren's new Samsung Jack with AT&T... she has a corpate plan and it actually includes 'legal' tethering.
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