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Anders Wallenquist
Asked: 2011-08-07 06:11:18 +0800 CST

How can I force a USB modem to only connect via EDGE and not 3G?

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How do I get Network-admin to restrict connection to GSM (Edge) instead of flipping between 3G and Edge and lose connection. Usually it works out-of-the box, but at my current location there are a lot of radio shadows, so the recommendation from my ISP is that I should lock to Edge - which can be done using their own driver in Windows.

How can I do this in Ubuntu

Ubuntu 11.04 Modem: Huawei E220 ISP: Telia mobilt bredband kontant

11.04

1 Answers

  1. click on network applet > Edit connections.. > Mobile Broadband

    select your mobile broadband connection and click Edit

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    you will see dialog box as below,

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    change Type: to 2G (GPRS/EDGE)

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    click Save. now whenever you try to connect to internet it'll use only EDGE even if 3G network is available.

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