Unlock your ZTE 627 Mobile Broadband Dongle (the free one from MicroP) for FREE!

leosayer39 wrote: »

Is this true? It isn't a 'true' unlock

Ordered my 'free' dongle last weekend and it arrived today. I have not even opened the box yet

Then allow me to tell you what's inside it, as I opened it last night and had a play this morning with it. You get a nice black dongle about the same size as an old flash pendrive. There's a MicroSD slot that takes up to 4GB according to the docs, and the sim slots in just above the USB plug. The lid stays attached via a little tag, so no loosing that! There is the Terms and Conditions booklet (44 pages), a leaflet saying "Welcome", another saying "Thanks", the end-user warranty sheet, a card saying "Buy your top-up here and online", a USB extension cable that isn't particularly long, and the sim card on something credit-card shaped. All that bar the dongle comes in a little cardboard envelope the same size as a CD holder, and the lot comes in a cardboard box that's about 6 inches square and about 2cm thick. Installing it was simple, the drivers are built-in on a ROM drive that shows up as a CD drive. The dongle needs to be taken out and plugged in again when it's installed, so the drivers install properly, and after that the software will need updating. The new software has a threshold alarm you can enable, which is useful for the 1GB for £10 I just bought. Pings are absolutely dreadful mind, so no gaming with it. Which is a shame as that was why I bought the damn thing!

Turkey_Machine wrote: »

Then allow me to tell you what's inside it, as I opened it last night and had a play this morning with it. You get a nice black dongle about the same size as an old flash pendrive. There's a MicroSD slot that takes up to 4GB according to the docs, and the sim slots in just above the USB plug. The lid stays attached via a little tag, so no loosing that! There is the Terms and Conditions booklet (44 pages), a leaflet saying "Welcome", another saying "Thanks", the end-user warranty sheet, a card saying "Buy your top-up here and online", a USB extension cable that isn't particularly long, and the sim card on something credit-card shaped. All that bar the dongle comes in a little cardboard envelope the same size as a CD holder, and the lot comes in a cardboard box that's about 6 inches square and about 2cm thick. Installing it was simple, the drivers are built-in on a ROM drive that shows up as a CD drive. The dongle needs to be taken out and plugged in again when it's installed, so the drivers install properly, and after that the software will need updating. The new software has a threshold alarm you can enable, which is useful for the 1GB for £10 I just bought. Pings are absolutely dreadful mind, so no gaming with it. Which is a shame as that was why I bought the damn thing!

Thanks for all of that..I have exactly the same as you. What a funny coincidence!

Anyway, now that I have it I am looking for the best option for my very limited usage.
I don't mind leaving it locked to three for the time being but I do want the longest access for my money.
Someone, earlier in this thread, said it is best to get a PAYG sim from three and use that one, instead of the one that comes with the dongle, and then use an 'add on' to get the longest possible time for my available credit.

Is this still the best option?
Do I just buy a three payg sim?
Put it into any unlocked phone?....
(by this I mean not necessarily an unlocked 3G phone. How about an unlocked standard 2G(?) phone?)
Top it up using a voucher, bought in a shop, in that unlocked phone?
Pick an 'add on'?
Put the newly topped up sim into the dongle and Bobs your uncle?

Have I understood it correctly? Is that right?????

leosayer39 wrote: »

Thanks for all of that..I have exactly the same as you. What a funny coincidence!

Anyway, now that I have it I am looking for the best option for my very limited usage.
I don't mind leaving it locked to three for the time being but I do want the longest access for my money.
Someone, earlier in this thread, said it is best to get a PAYG sim from three and use that one, instead of the one that comes with the dongle, and then use an 'add on' to get the longest possible time for my available credit.

Is this still the best option?
Do I just buy a three payg sim?
Put it into any unlocked phone?....
(by this I mean not necessarily an unlocked 3G phone. How about an unlocked standard 2G(?) phone?)
Top it up using a voucher, bought in a shop, in that unlocked phone?
Pick an 'add on'?
Put the newly topped up sim into the dongle and Bobs your uncle?

Have I understood it correctly? Is that right?????

I have done exactly as above apart from the fact that my unlocked phone was a 3G one, so I don't know if it will work with a 2G one.
All is working well and at the moment I am using up the 150MB of data allowance that you get from Three with every £10 top up. When that runs out I will buy a one day (50p) add on on days that I want to use it. ( only very occasionally)

espresso wrote: »

Once unlocked, a Voda SIM should work. Did you enter the Vodafone details correctly into the connection manager:

e.g.
APN: internet
Username: web
Password: web
Primary DNS: 158.043.240.004
SMTP gateway (for email): smtp.vodafone.net

Has your Voda SIM been used for data before, sometimes data needs to be enabled by the network operator before it can be used.

These details are not correct for PAYG, on Voda PAYG the APN is "pp.internet", the "internet" APN is only for contract.