Dropping of GPRS connection
In my earlier post, I said that the setup I was using (GPRS via a Nokia mobile and Vodaphone Italy) was working satisfactorily. Obviously I spoke too soon!
When we were in Italy last week, I tried using the laptop to access our e-mails as I had done in November last year. I used the same hardware with the same settings. There was plenthy of credit (more than 30 euros) on the phone (it's a PAYG account) and I could make and receive voice calls OK. All seemed to go fine, there was a good signal and the laptop and mobile showed the GPRS connection being made but almost as soon as it connected, the connection was dropped. On some occaions, it even gave a data transfer rate so it did seem to make a proper connection and when it dropped it, it seemed to do so in an orderly fashion. It kept doing this and I was unable to ever make it work. The connection failed too quickly to determine whether it was the network, the phone (although I don't think it was) or the laptop that was breaking the connection.
Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening?
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