Cannot connect on PAYG Mobile Broadband

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm using a DELL D620 notebook which has an integrated SIM slot. I'm running Windows 7. I've fitted DELL's 5540 mini PCI-e WWAN card, and inserted my o2 PAYG mobile broadband sim. I've put £2 on the SIM, giving me 200MB for up to 24 hours, just so I can test this thing out. I've got DELL's Mobile Broadband Manager software installed, the SIM is recognised, I can, and have, recieved SMS messages on my laptop through the sim, as this is how I received confirmation of my topup. However -- I cannot connect via mobile broadband! Every time I hit the "connect" button, it tries to connect for a while, before stopping without giving a reason why it failed to connect.

If I try and connect via Windows rather than through the DELL software, it says "Connection failed", and if I view the troubleshooter, it tells me that "The mobile broadband network connection operation (context activation) failed with error code 0". What does this mean?

Any ideas on how I can get this thing working?

[Anonymous]

Have you configured the software to connect to O2?

[Anonymous]

It configured itself from the sim. APN, username and password are all there.

[Anonymous]

Did it put the correct APN in?  Sometimes it can pull the wrong ones.

[Anonymous]

APN is mobile.o2.co.uk

[Anonymous]

Having a quick search around it seems people are using the below on the same card:

APN: wap.o2.co.uk
Username: o2wap
Password: password

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
APN is mobile.o2.co.uk

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I think that is for pay monthly only

Also try:

APN : payandgo.o2.co.uk
Username : payandgo
Password : password

[Anonymous]

Just tried those settings, no joy.

[Anonymous]

Just tried both o2wap settings and payandgo settings, no luck with either.

[Anonymous]

Strange, do you have a mobile you can try the sim in?  Seems very likely the data is somehow not active as one of those APN's should work.