Vodafone Romania prepaid internet card

[raywright1]

Originally Posted by linguist

I've just come back from Romania. Beautiful country with incredible hiking in the mountains (Retezat, Fagaras, Bucegi).

those are all great destinations. glad you enjoyed it. i was at Balea Lac for the first time this year, 2034m high!

Originally Posted by linguist

She also gave me a 4-Euro DATA PLAN with 500 MB good for 30 days. The setup took about 40 minutes (there was some problem with their severs probably), but finally worked, and worked perfectly!
She said it wouldn't work as a modem but only on the device itself, but she was wrong. For the next 2 weeks I had perfect 3G (HSPA) signal across the country, except for remote areas where they only had GPRS (and not EDGE, strangely). I was online on my HTC Touch Pro and my laptop at all times.

i confirm that the speed was very fast.

just curious - what were the APN settings they told you to use?

how did you use your TP to reach the internet - tethered USB or tethered WiFi? i could not get tethered WiFi to work.

[linguist]

Originally Posted by raywright1

those are all great destinations. glad you enjoyed it. i was at Balea Lac for the first time this year, 2034m high!

Yeah, Lacul Balea is beautiful and the Transfagarasan road is incredible.

i confirm that the speed was very fast.
just curious - what were the APN settings they told you to use?

See here.
Note that there is a difference in the settings for prepaid and for contract subscribers. Contract subscribers use live.vodafone.com instead of live.pre.vodafone.com.

how did you use your TP to reach the internet - tethered USB or tethered WiFi? i could not get tethered WiFi to work.

I actually tethered the phone's 3G connection over bluetooth mainly. I never use WiFi, it's too power hungry.