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dethorpe · Jul 03, 2008, 06:14 PM // 18:14

Hi all,

I Was having a problem using GW on my windows XP laptop over a vodafone 3G connection (using USB modem) where it just hung at the connecting to arenanet screen.

I've now managed to get it working, so thought I'd share the solution here in case its useful to anyone else.

After a bit of digging i found vodafone use a product called Bytemobile that runs when you start the mobile connect client. This is some sort of web optimization tool. Other providers/hardware may do the same or similar.

Stopping this process fixed the problem, also had the side effect of getting my IM working (I use Pidgen to connect to a couple of services)

There are two programs started when you connect to the 3G network, bmop.exe & bmctl.exe, just stop these from taskmanager after you've connected to the 3G network and all seems to work.

I now have a batch file on the desktop to run that stops them (saves going into task manager). Just type the following into a batch file (e.g. "BMstop.bat"), then double click to run.

Code:

taskkill /im bmop.exe /im bmctl.exe /F

With these stopped all other internet access still works, but the compression/optimization done by bytemobile has stopped so data usage would be larger.

This may work with other providers/hardware just depends if they use the same or similar product to bytemobile.

If this helps you, them happy mobile playing.

Craig
(Tarnac Skimshaw, R/E)