3 Mobile Huawei E160G Reviews

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For the first 4 months 3 Mobile Huawei E160G worked a charm. After that it started behaving wierd. The dialer application would say "connected" but if the connection is idle for about half a minute continously it will secretly disconnect but the dialer still displays connected. I won't be able to ping. It has got nothing to do with the software I have installed as the same problem developed concurrently on Vista and Fedora (which they don't support) and my browsing and usage pattern completely vary on both OS's. But the customer care just wouldn't understand all this and I would have to go through an immense ordeal to even get across the frontal parrots (one of them told me I dont need a connection to be able to ping and if i can't ping there's something wrong with the laptop) to speak to a technical person. And the so called technical team also can't do anything. It is a non-integrated bunch of software/hardware/network combo from various vendors and they leave it to your hands to establish which one is having a problem, by repetitively directing you to do silly things one by one, like try with another laptop, go to a different location and try it (i did that and there was no connection in the place i went!), try on a PC etc. Finally they told me it looks like a problem with the modem and they will take the modem and return it in 3 days. I asked if I could be given a replacement for those 3 days and the answer was what I expected ofcourse. By then I had found a workaround myself. If I keep a ping -t www.xxabcd.com running on the background the connection is never idle and the clever modem doesn't disconnect. So unwilling to be disconnected altogether for 3 days, I lived with the problem. One fine day the modem apparently downloaded some updates and the skin of the application changed. And the above problem had seemed to have gone. But after a month a different version of the problem. This time, it still shows connected but even ping wouldn't work. And the guilty application/modem tries to reconnect after a while (visible because it opens the 3 homepage everytime it connects). So now it basically keeps dropping and reconnecting every 5 minutes. Beware guys don't go for this unless you have a strong cause and see if you can go for a pay-as-you-go or short contracts.

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My 3 Mobile Huawei E160G is incredibly slow, it's performance equal to 56k modem. The drivers won't update, drops connection all the time. tried it in several locations, no difference.

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There's a problem using this 3 Mobile Huawei E160G on some mac operating systems. It often requires you to switch the computer off altogether. I think I've found a solution though. If you don't use the 3connect application, but dial up from the telephone icon at the top of the screen, it seems to work fine. This means you can't see what kind of signal you have, which is not ideal.

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This 3 Mobile Huawei E160G unit works well when the signal is good. XP users should have no problems installing - just plug and go! Just because it is sold as a broadband device doesn't mean users should expect cable performance - I get about 7.5kB/s average in a marginal area, peaks of 100kB/s or better. Good enough!
3 will tell you what coverage you have in your area - mine is marginal but still capable of 115 kB/s peak. The device does what it can! Using XP Pro installation was completely aut ...

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Its a gadget! Its small and you don't need a degree to use it.
It won't be as fast as a cable connection but it will get you online when your not at home and if you love ebay thats all you need.
You have to appreciate what its doing.
Its no good for gamers.
Brilliant for light internet use.

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Can use on the go. Small and it's price is reasonable
For me, it's good to people who live in place with full 3g coverage
Well recommend 3 Mobile Huawei E160G.

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I've had three mobile broadband for about 10 months, I started with the e220 which I had no problems with on xp, vista, osx or linux. The speed is usually as fast as BT home broadband. My parents got the e160 dongle and that refused to work on vista, so I swapped modems and on xp, osx and linux (my main os) it's fine and again usually very quick. I think at £15 per month a lot cheaper than a land line.

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good looking and small. very easy to use.

sometimes the connection do drop but making it in upright position can help boosting the signal a bit!

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Not a very good product, and 3 mobile service is even worse. mine is on ebay now as it was quite rubbish.
slow speeds like dialup days and had driver issues with the device also.
Drivers on vista were a nightmare to install. The device was not recognised alot as its has a double stage install in the drivers. it sees it as a removable CD then installs the device as a modem, vista didnt get passed this point quite alot. upgraded drivers etc.
when i got it also the texts from 3 were comming out ...

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Nothing good so far about this, got a contract for 12months and after 2 days of trying to get it working im still only able to access the web infrequently, and not able to play online games, supposedly broadband speed but ive only reached a 56k dial up speed at best. Really disappointed with this and i'm still in search for the solution to make it stay connected or download like a broadband connection.

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It's slim and looks trendy I keep getting loss of signal, it's too slow and I can't get speeds to go above 512kbps which is poor when I'm paying between 10 and 25 pounds a month. Not recommended. I think they are rubbish on Pay As You Go.

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So to summarise: If you want to part with £60 odd, to be able to surf the web for a few days, and then spend the following week trying to give them more money, only to be met with customer service that could only possibly be of any use if you were born in bangladesh, then yeah, get your cash out and trot on down to your local 3 mobile dealer. With hindsight however, I really am not that desperate, to get something that I can go to the library, or macdonalds, or many pubs around the nat ...

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I purchased the modem on a 18 months contract for £7.50 a month i was happy with the idea of having internet on the move but i am having problems with the signal the bars go from 2-4 and my internet is very very slow its unbelievably how slow it is I have to wait like 5 mins just to view my emails can anyone tell me how to go about getting better signal and also what the micro sd slot is for.

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Stumbled on you guys by chance! I have just taken out an 18 month contract at £7.50 per month with 5GB free allowance with this little beauty. Got wind of this offer (limited to one month) via a fantastic site called MONEYSAVINGEXPERT.COM.I'll let you know if there are any problems in due course. James.

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I got the 3 Mobile Huawei Modern about 7-8 months ago. I mainly used it on Apple but it works on Vista too. I am on a PAYG and I pay about £15 a month. It loads fast and the connection is good. I know some people have a problem with connection on the 3 Network but it has worked out okay for me. I think it all depends on what you use the internet for. If you just want to email and surf without heavy video downloads then this modern is great. The best thing is that your not locked in ...

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10days ago I didn't expect to have broadband or any net access at home until the hotspots got better for FON in 18months or so....then I took a chance paid a one off £50 .....bought a top up, in an instant I was no longer isolated. I have M.E chronic fatigue and am house/bedbound an awful lot. I'm lucky my home is in a 3mobile hotspot. They really should let people know about this more clearly.I can budget as it is PAYG, I can get net access in a minute from my bed at any time. It is the ...

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Overall my 3 Mobile Huawei E160G has worked very well so far. No major complaints apart from problem registering for my3 account using mac os (apparently 3 are addressing this). Does seem to eat up my laptops battery quicker than normal.