Universal HSDPA usb sticks

[shadowschild]

Hello Anandtech,

I recently purchased a HSDPA usb stick off amazon, which accepts any SIM card. As a test, I put in my rogers sim from my LTE phone into a laptop.

The stick automatically installs the necessary drivers (qualcomm usb modem) & runs a connection application. It automatically went to Rogers wireless.

Unfortunately it failed to authenticate & I am looking for theories to try out.
Here is what I've done so far to troubleshoot

1) Disable the lan & wireless cards in Windows 7 control panel.
2) rebooted several times
3) clicked IPv6
4) double checked the APN settings from rogers website.

I believe the issue may be on my sim card, as it's rather old (before iphones). On my galaxy note 1 I get 4G/3G/Edge but it never says LTE.

 

[paperwastage]

which usb stick is this? model number/manufacturer etc

check with Rogers. some telecompanies blacklist/whitelist their SIMs (tied to a phone plan) to only work on phones (and not on HSDPA usb sticks).

 

[shadowschild]

Hello Paperwastage

here is the link to the amazon product
http://www.amazon.ca/HSDPA-7-2MBPS-W...=3g+usb+dongle

As for the blacklisting part, google search results are too focused on stolen sims.