telecom t-stick seen as new network every time

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Dingbatt

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#75304 16-Jan-2011 11:55

I am on holiday and using my telecom t-stick with my windows 7 HP laptop. Every time I connect the t-stick to the internet, windows sees it as a new network, gives it a new name, i.e. "Telecom network" and an ever increasing number. Can I stop it doing this as it also brings up a prompt for the level of network security every time?

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#427603 16-Jan-2011 12:17

I had exactly the same issue however it just seemed to stop one day, possibly after it had remembered every different network name!

I assume you just have a cheap ZTE stick?

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#427620 16-Jan-2011 13:22

I just have windows set to set every new network I connect to as Public, and it doesn't come up any more. Windows knows my home network and work network, so everything else I connect to is fine as public.

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#427636 16-Jan-2011 13:59

The reason for this IIRC is that the ZTE stick creates a new dialup connection every time you connect, therefor Windows identifies it as a new network.

There is an icon on your task-bar (at least there was in Vista) but it's name excepts me, where you can turn this off.

Other ways around this include creating a new manual Dial Up Connection. You will need to leave the Telecom Connection Manager running however, but don't use it to connect.

Dialing # is *99#
No Password.

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#427829 17-Jan-2011 00:21

The problem is also present with Mac OS X - its something I think that ZTE carried over from the Mac OS X world where after disconnect it should delete the connection but it appears that it isn't.

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#428224 17-Jan-2011 21:35

It's a stupid and annoying feature, among other things it means you can't customize which services get bound to the network connection, and you can't use it to share the connection as a wifi hotspot. (Or maybe you can if you manually create a network connection, I didn't know you could do that).

In Windows 7 there's a "don't ask me again" checkbox on the network location dialog to get rid of this prompt when it creates a new network connection.

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#428228 17-Jan-2011 21:41

trig42: I just have windows set to set every new network I connect to as Public, and it doesn't come up any more. Windows knows my home network and work network, so everything else I connect to is fine as public.

Does this feature exist in Vista? I get this with my MF626 as well.

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#428231 17-Jan-2011 21:52

quickymart:
trig42: I just have windows set to set every new network I connect to as Public, and it doesn't come up any more. Windows knows my home network and work network, so everything else I connect to is fine as public.

Does this feature exist in Vista? I get this with my MF626 as well.

nzbnw's suggestion above works perfectly under Vista, (will try Win 7 next time I reboot my laptop), shun the Telecom Connection Manager completely, and just use the stick as a dial up modem calling *99#, works perfectly from what I can tell. Certainly solves my issues.

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#429143 20-Jan-2011 11:48

i had the same issue,
i picked up a 3g wireless router (netgear) and plugged the stick into that . im rural so i put the router with stick in the best location for signal and its been good to go ever since

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#429368 20-Jan-2011 22:05

i just set as "public network" and "dont ask me again". then its fine