Dear Vodafone
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growler_southI know your mobile connect software is all part of maintaining your brand identity- it looks flash, it's nicely tabbed and has pretty icons of flashing cell towers. Well done.
Having used it for a week or two, I also now know that it's slow, annoying, auto-launches only sometimes, and doesn't play nice with other internet connections. I also know that it's just a pretty front-end for a bog standard Windows dial-up connection.
In future, I would appreciate it if there were two options during setup:
1-Install Vodafone Mobile Connect software to manage my connections
or
2-Create a dial-up connection only- I will use Windows to manage my connections.
I'm currently using Windows to manage my connection and it's completely transparent. It connects when I want internet and disconnects when I'm done- and does so within fractions of a second. No splash screens, no notification icons or message bubbles, no arbitrary usage limits, no data 'optimisation', no popup windows to interrupt my surfing.
It's a far more enjoyable experience, and my annoyance with Vodafone's software has been replaced with enjoyment of Vodafone's connection speed.
Kind regards,
Growler
Having used it for a week or two, I also now know that it's slow, annoying, auto-launches only sometimes, and doesn't play nice with other internet connections. I also know that it's just a pretty front-end for a bog standard Windows dial-up connection.
In future, I would appreciate it if there were two options during setup:
1-Install Vodafone Mobile Connect software to manage my connections
or
2-Create a dial-up connection only- I will use Windows to manage my connections.
I'm currently using Windows to manage my connection and it's completely transparent. It connects when I want internet and disconnects when I'm done- and does so within fractions of a second. No splash screens, no notification icons or message bubbles, no arbitrary usage limits, no data 'optimisation', no popup windows to interrupt my surfing.
It's a far more enjoyable experience, and my annoyance with Vodafone's software has been replaced with enjoyment of Vodafone's connection speed.
Kind regards,
Growler
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Date: 2008-07-01 05:46 am (UTC)BTW, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en) is a freebie that's sometimes handy to have around for that sort of thing. Or running Linux.
Strangely enough, you can also download (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en) perfectly functional pre-populated virtual machines for testing old versions of Internet Exploiter. Weird, eh?