Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

[Slawek Drabot]

Hard locking the DNS config to OpenDNS has worked like a charm. So far some dozen connections without fail.

Thanks!

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com>
> Subject: Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762
> To: "Slawek Drabot" <sdrabot at yahoo.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:28 AM
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 02:09 -0800,
> Slawek Drabot wrote:
> > That explains annoyance 1.
> > 
> > Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to
> circumvent annoyance 2?
> 
> I have seen this happen with both optus and vodafone. 
> Last time I used
> 3 they didn't seem to have this problem, neither does
> telstra.  Maybe it
> is just a problem with the huawei modems - dunno
> 
> If using network manager to control your connection there
> is an option
> under the IPv4 tab to specify the DNS servers you want to
> use.  I use
> opendns for my 3g modem - 208.67.222.222 and
> 208.67.220.220.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
>