Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Problems with Reliance USB Modem - ZTE MG880

Got a Reliance USB modem today. I had earlier returned a reliance wireless phone connection as they were charging me heftily and I felt cheated every time I had to waste time to get my bills / plan adjusted.

Anyways I finalised on reliance USB modem as the alternate choices - Tata Sky and Airtel seemed to have lesser coverage than reliance.

I installed the software for the ZTE MG880, following the instructions but was getting error messages. Realising that the problem might be because I was having Vista, I tried online to get solutions but none worked. Even the reliance web site did not give any clue on what to do. Finally I came across an online post giving the location of a driver

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/669437-reliance-usb-modem-mg880-problem.html

The driver is available at http://www.rcom.co.in/Communications/rcom/Netconnect/RCZip/ZTE%20USB%20Modem.zip

Its a big file - 86 MB. I downloaded the driver and it works fine.

Dont understand why the same was not given in the CD along with the MG880 or lack of support in the reliance website. Anyways thanks to thunderstrom now the connection is okay. Will update on the connection in the next few days.