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HTC Hero Mobile Internet Settings for Vodafone Ireland

Adrian — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:43:41 +0000

After porting over to Vodafone recently I’ve had a bit of trouble trying to get internet access up and running. I’m using a HTC Hero and since Vodafone don’t sell that model they couldn’t push the settings out to the handset. Luckily their internal support desk was able to get me up and running in no time.

I’m using their Mobile Internet Addon which gives you 500MB for €9.99. I think there’s a different APN if you’re on one of their packages that give’s you a couple of Gb/month. These settings might work in those cases.

You’ll probably need to restart the mobile network after entering these settings. You do that by unticking and then reticking the Mobile network menu option in the Wireless controls menu.

The bold settings are the ones I actually entered. The rest are just the defaults.

Name: Vodafone Live
APN: live.vodafone.com
Proxy:
Port:
Username: vodafone
Password: vodafone
Server:
MMSC:
MMS Port:
MMS Protocol: WAP 2.0
MMS: 272
MNC: 01
APN Type:

Meteor WebSMS

Adrian — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:01:46 +0000

As a Java5/JUnit4/Maven2 learning exercise I’ve written a simple little SMS command line utility called Meteor WebSMS. It allows you to bypass Meteor’s website and send the free web SMS messages they offer from your command line (you have to be a Meteor customer of course).

The API is completely separate from the the command line tool so it’s available if you want to use it in your own Java programs. Javadocs are here.

Since this is a learning exercise full source code and Maven pom.xml are included in the distribution. The URL is http://www.17od.com/meteor-websms.

Jajah Troubles

Adrian — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:39:29 +0000

I decided to give jajah a go the other day, partly because I just wanted to see what it was like and partly because it was cheaper than my normal mobile tarrif. I’d used it once before for setting up a call between two landlines and it all went very smoothly. This time however I was setting up a call between two mobiles.

On the first attempt it took about a minute before I got the callback from jajah. When it connected the other party the line was really bad so I had to hangup an try again. On the second attempt it still took about a minute to get connected but the quality was fine.

Soon afterwards I tried to make another call to a different mobile. This time I never got the callback. After waiting about 5 minutes I tried to setup the call again. After trying this about three times I gave up. A couple of minutes later I finally got the callback from jahjah. It connected the other party but also connected the party I made a call to originally. So the three of us were connected and none of us had anything to say. It reminded me of that Garda prank a while back.

Anyway, needless to say I’m not very impressed. I’ll probably still use jajah again (if for no other reason than because by account with them still has a couple of euro left) but only as a backup. The rates they offer are really attractive but the hassle of setting up a call, waiting for a callback is a bit of a pain in the arse, especially when it takes about five minutes to get that callback.

What kind of experience have others had?