Has 3 stopped the 5 pound access on my laptop?

I have been subscribing to the £5 internet add on and using it mainly on my
mobile, but occasionally on my laptop using a Skypephone S2. It seems that
today when I tried using it to access the net from my laptop, it no longer
works. Can anyone confirm that this is no longer available?

Thanks

 

I'm posting this from my laptop via a SIM (my wife's) with the £5
add-on. It seems to work okay. My SIM has a £10 add on which I've
been using a lot the past few weeks, and it's been quite good too.

Dennis Ferguson

 

Thanks for that Dennis.

Every time I start a session via bluetooth or usb, the connection now fails.

Nothing has changed here, and the SIM has a current £5 mobile internet add
on that is valid and works fine from the phone directly. But as soon as I
try to connect from the Laptop or Pocket PC the connection fails.

Dont know whats going on.

 

Yes I am in North Derbyshire too.

 

When was your last £5 addon added to your account?
I am suspecting that any new £5 mobile internet addons added after 1st May
2009, will only work on the phone and wont allow access on a laptop via USB
or bluetooth.
Pity if thats the case, as I mainly use it on the phone, but just check a
couple of things on the laptop occasionally. If that is what they have done
I wont bother using their mobile addon at all......

Comments anyone?

 

Does anyone else have anything to add to this thread? I am suprised it
hasn't attracted more interest....
I am wanting to know if your 3 mobile internet add on (£5) is still working
via the USB or Bluetooth (to a laptop or PDA device)

 

On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:19:37 +0100, John wrote in

Whilst I now normally use my new 3 dongle, I have just tried Bluetooth via
my mobile phone and can confirm it still works ok. What I have noticed
recently is smtp access has changed. I run my own smtp server on my
laptop, but 3 seem to be blocking port 25 unless connecting through their
own smtp server.

 

That doesn't sound right. The add-on for my wife's SIM (the one I
posted from) was purchased on the 7th.

You might try tethering with the SIM in another phone, just on the off
chance that your S2 is doing something to give away the fact that you're
tethered (maybe that's what happens when a phone is designed for
a carrier rather than for users...).

Dennis Ferguson

 

I have 2 mobile three (UK) mobiles (s2 and INQ1)
both have internet add-on active on the PAYG and contract.

They both still work for me whilst connected to the desktop and or laptop.

Maybe directly insatall the connection software (mobile-modem) onto your
desktop or laptop as opposed to leaving to the phone to install when you
use it.

Hope this helps.

 

mine was working fine in my netbook with embedded sim today ......

 

My 3 handset (PAYG, SkypePhone) has been having difficulty since the
upgrade starting a data session, the "fix" is to power cycle the phone,
but if I leave it too long, the connection appears to freeze and I have
to turn it off and back on again.

And, sometimes it hangs on a socket call so I have to take the battery
out. This happened three times yesterday morning.

I'm in the Basingstoke area.

 

I've been power cycling my phone too, seems to help for about 5 minutes,
then back to random lost of download.

Definitely a problem with Three, Virgin internet on T Mobile 3G network is
fine

I've found another Virgin Sim with some credit on to send this,
now to watch how much it debits per day, if more than the 30p they claim
i'll have to call Virgin Mobile CS ):-(

Steve Terry

 

Did you find out what Virgin were up to?