Comments on: Mobile broadband for macs

By: mbzrad101

mbzrad101 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:31:43 +0000

It seems that I am not alone in wasting a lot of time trying to get a ZTE 3 dongle to operate on a Mac. Quite unbelievable, I am demanding a refund and getting nowhere. Maybe I’ll tie it to a brick and chuck it through their window ! If nothing else I’ll feel better,.

By: ReggieRareBreed

ReggieRareBreed — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:48:02 +0000

Bought myself a MacBook Pro, works brill on Airport, but plug in my 3 ZTE112 Dongle and NOWT?
This dongle does work well on Windaz and Ubuntu, but I really need it to work on my Mac.
Would have thought that these Companies would realise this by now after reading through all you posts going back to 2009?
Depressing……
Keep the Peace. Reg

By: melanie

melanie — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:23:13 +0000

my 3 dongle installed on my laptop no problem it was just when it came to the 3 connect setup assistant that the macbook wont pick up my device. its just giving me options of two and thats hauwei modem and zte mf622 usb modem. Iv searched everywhere to see what mobile broadband I can use or how to get my 3 dongle connected but still no luck. Can anybody help me???

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:00:21 +0000

Use a Huawei E585 3 Modem on a Mac Book Pro through a wireless connection to the modem in a USB connection on to my upstairs laptop. Nothing wrong with the modem, just getting it to connect to the mac book. Stopped working 2 days ago, no reason, but I can’t get it to reconnect.

Pretty depressing. All i did was connect a VGA adaptor to the mac book.Surely not?

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:49:38 +0000

Bought a 3 dongle for my 2 year old MBP. Wish I’d read the comments on this site first.
I’ve spent hours trying to get the dongle to install but can’t get past a message that appears ‘adapter busy or unavailable’.
Tried taking it back (only had it 5 days) but the manager at carphone warehouse pointed to the bottom of the ‘contract’ where it says Three do not offer a 14 day change of mind or 14 day exchange. This in spite of the salesman at the time saying if there were problems with it could be exchanged within 14 days.
Any ideas anyone …

By: william

william — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:02:29 +0000

please help!!!!!!

its good to see people thats on the same boat as me
i bought my macbook pro last week from pc world and i was asuard that my 3 dongle would work on it . i was also tols at a three shop.
ive had my dongle a while now and its worked on my laptop no problem.

my 3 dongle e156g installed on my laptop no problem it was just when it came to the 3 connect setup assistant that the macbook wont pick up my device . its just giving me options of two and thats hauwei modem and zte mf622 usb modem.

the only reasson i got a dongle was so i didnt get into no contract with any other broadband such as bt because it requires a land line . im think that will be my only option to get internet on my macbook pro from looking at these comments….

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:28:57 +0000

I’m totally ignorant of “broadband modems” so pardon me if I ask some really dumb questions about them.
For remotely getting online with a Macbook Pro would I just need the dongle or would I need the dongle plus a plan.
I’ve found that in places like some airports even if they say they have a public connection I often have trouble getting online so I might want my own connection. In that case might I really want a satellite USB device instead or is that overkill?
And what brand works better with the Macs? (I know this is really a personal choice type of question, but I need all and any recommendations I can get.)

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:43:00 +0000

I just wish this term “mobile broadband” would go away. I’ve tried various dongles & they just don’t keep a connection or are unsuitable for streaming audio / video. Broadband It Is Not.

The most usable solution is tethering to your 3g phone via bluetooth & using it’s data plan. Most people never use all their data plan allowance, whatever that may be, in whatever time frame they have chosen. We’re talking “mobile” here, so that’s usually plenty for mobile laptop use.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:07:48 +0000

I wanted to let folks know that the new ’3connect’ app from three seems to have ironed out all my issues. After 8 months of dealing with kernal panics I found new software (Version 3.0.0.63) here: http://mymobile.three.co.uk:8080/mbb/Huawei/E156G/main.html

By: Rob Spencer

Rob Spencer — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:20:08 +0000

This is the panic log I receive when my macbook crashes (see below) and i get the ‘please restart’ messsage. I have a vodafone (Australia) usb modem. I have never had a problem with my macbook in the last 2.5 years. I’m worried that if it continues it will damage my hard drive. any suggestions apart from don’t use it?

Mac OS X Version 10.4.8 (Build 8N1150)
2010-04-25 08:54:41 +1000
2010-04-25 08:54:42.305 SystemUIServer[125] lang is:en
Apr 25 08:56:14 robert-spencers-computer kextd[143]: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext
Apr 25 08:56:25 robert-spencers-computer kextd[25]: cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/NMSmartplugSCSIDevice.kext
Apr 25 08:56:26 robert-spencers-computer kextd[154]: kld_load_from_memory() failed for module /System/Library/Extensions/iTunesPhoneDriver.kext/Contents/MacOS/iTunesPhoneDriver
Apr 25 08:56:26 robert-spencers-computer kextd[154]: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/iTunesPhoneDriver.kext
2010-04-25 08:56:30.209 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Could not find image named ‘edit’.
2010-04-25 08:56:30.214 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Could not find image named ‘SMS-GetSMS’.
2010-04-25 08:56:30.219 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Could not find image named ‘SMS-drafts’.
2010-04-25 08:56:30.223 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Could not find image named ‘SMS-NewSMS’.
2010-04-25 08:56:30.227 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Could not find image named ‘SMS-ForwardSMS’.
2010-04-25 08:56:35.388 NML2NDeviceObserver[128] Now removing driver volume ‘disk1′
2010-04-25 08:56:36.000 Vodafone Mobile Broadband[155] Now removing driver volume ‘disk1′
Disk disk1 unmounted
Disk disk1 unmounted
{type = mutable, count = 1, capacity = 4, pairs = (
1 : {contents = “IOProviderClass”} = {contents = “HuaweiDataCardECMData”}
)}
MyOpenUserClient was successful.

JNI dylib: connect() start! MyUserClientConnectByQMI was successful.

Debugger() was called!