{"id":953,"date":"2007-11-27T22:50:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/getting-vodafone-mobile-connect-and-windows-vista-to-play-nicely-together.htm"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:09:17","slug":"getting-vodafone-mobile-connect-and-windows-vista-to-play-nicely-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/getting-vodafone-mobile-connect-and-windows-vista-to-play-nicely-together.htm","title":{"rendered":"Getting Vodafone Mobile Connect and Windows Vista to play nicely together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?s=53639&#038;v=1257&#038;q=42109&#038;r=87738\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cshow.php?s=53639&#038;v=1257&#038;q=42109&#038;r=87738\" alt=\"Vodafone\" class=\"alternate\" \/><\/a>In order to be effective, I need to be online for a large part of my working day.  Right now I&#8217;m spending a big chunk of my week either travelling or at a client site where their policies prevents me from connecting my notebook PC to the LAN and the only access I have to the Internet is via a Wyse terminal to RDP onto servers (which don&#8217;t have any of the software installed that so many websites need &#8211; for example Flash\/Silverlight plugins, Java, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been given a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodafonebusinessshop.co.uk\/pcexpresscard.html\">Vodafone PC Express Card<\/a> (one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileconnected.co.uk\/vodafone-launch-72mbps-hsupa-usb-modem-and-expresscards\/\">the new 7.2Mbps HSUPA Option Etna cards<\/a>) but I&#8217;ve been struggling to get it working with Windows Vista.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.vodafone.com\/site\/bus\/public\/enuk\/support\/10_productsupport\/general\/microsoft\/vista\/10_datacards\/p_upgradevista.jsp\">Vodafone&#8217;s website indicates that Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) version 9.1 will work with Windows Vista<\/a> and that&#8217;s certainly the experience of a colleague with an older card but each time I installed the Vodafone Mobile Connect software, the wireless LAN connection failed to obtain an IP address, falling back to automatic private IP addressing (which Vista reports as local access only).<\/p>\n<p>The Option Express card is supplied with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.vodafone.com\/site\/bus\/public\/enuk\/p_software_tscs62.jsp\">Vodafone Mobile Connect 9.2.1.6545<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileconnected.co.uk\/9216545\/\">which is reported to resolve issues with previous VMC clients including application conflicts and failing LAN\/WLAN connections<\/a>.  I&#8217;d tried a custom installation without Vodafone&#8217;s WLAN components as Windows Vista is perfectly capable of managing my notebook&#8217;s built-in Intel PRO\/Wireless2200BG (Centrino) chipset and was just about to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileconnected.co.uk\/vmc_lite_v3\/\">Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite v3.0.3.112<\/a> instead when I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/exertrack.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/13\/solved-windows-vista-and-vodaphone-3g\/\">a comment on a blog post that suggested installing VMC without the optimisation software<\/a> &#8211; that seemed to resolve the issue and allowed me to use the WLAN connection with the VMC software installed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/vodafone-mobile-connect.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of Vodafone Mobile Connect v9.2.1.6545 with a working (but weak) 3G connection\"\/>I still couldn&#8217;t get a data connection; however that problem turned out to be a little more basic &#8211; swapping SIMs with my mobile handset confirmed that the new SIM that Vodafone had supplied with the data card was not activated (despite the shipping note stating that it was).  A quick call to Vodafone this morning resolved that particular issue and I now have a working 3G connection (seamlessly dropping back to GPRS as required).<br \/>\n<!-- Static Ad --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?s=57963&#038;v=1257&#038;q=46020&#038;r=87738\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cshow.php?s=57963&#038;v=1257&#038;q=46020&#038;r=87738\" alt=\"Vodafone USB Broadband\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to be effective, I need to be online for a large part of my working day. 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