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Story: A 3G data card for your Mac?

Posted by: James Clay (Thursday 19 August 2004, 1:32 PM)

I have found on the Vodafone Germany website their Mac OS X software for the German Vodafone 3G Datacard. This software is not available on the Vodafone UK site.

http://www.vodafone.de/business/support/37780.html

I successfully managed to install, connect and use a UK Vodafone Mobile Connect 3G Datacard in a G4 PowerBook using the Vodafone Germany software, from this website, I managed to use the card successfully to connect to the internet via GPRS (I don't actually live in a 3G area so couldn't test that side of things).

The software (which is based on the Nova Media UMTS software (which retails for 91 Euro) installed relatively easily, all the instructions are in English as is the accompanying installation PDF.

One problem, even though the volume was off, the card seems to play merry havoc with the speakers on the PowerBook causing static or interference through the speakers. This means that the card is pretty unusable in "quiet" situations. This problem is resolved if you use the external aerial that Vodafone provide.