12/25/2020 Vodafone Mobile Broadband Download Mac Os X
The current release of the Vodafone Mobile Broadband for Mac app, which you can download from this website, supports the following: OS X 10.10 Yosemite OS X 10.11 El Capitan macOS 10.12 Sierra macOS 10.13 High Sierra. The following Vodafone Mobile Broadband USB Sticks are supported on OS X: K4201 K4201-Z K4203. K4203-Z K4305 K4606.
My family and I usually spend some time in Europe during the summer; there are several great conferences to attend, and of course we take the opportunity to visit our parents and relatives. My unlocked Captivate, with a Vodafone Italy prepaid voice+data plan, solved my smartphone connectivity problems. However, I also rely on a USB 3G modem to connect with my MacBook Pro when I’m away from wifi networks. Specifically, I use a Vodafone Italy “internet key” and a nice prepaid plan (5 euros per month, and 1 euro each day I actually use the key, for up to 300MB of traffic per day, which is perfect for email and work).
After upgrading to OS X Lion, I remembered that the “internet key” (a Vodafone-branded Huawei UMTS modem) used to require a PowerPC-era driver. This is bad news: OS X Lion drops support for Rosetta, the PowerPC emulator that allowed users of previous OS X releases to run software and drivers written for older-generation Macs. Thus, no Rosetta, no PowerPC drivers, hence no internet key ?
Well, it turns out that Vodafone is rewriting drivers and software for modern, Intel-based macs! You can get a preview version here; hat tip to Macfixit, a South African web site where I first found a reference to the aforelinked Vodafone page. [Update: the Vodafone preview page now also comes up first if you do a Google search for “vodafone mobile broadband lion preview”].
Incidentally, getting the software obviously poses a chicken-and-egg problem. I solved it by downloading it using my Captivate. Here, though, I had to work around a small hurdle: the default Captivate / Android browser would not download the .zip file with the driver, saying that it was “not meant for my platform” (or something like that). So, I tried using the Dolphin browser instead, and it worked: the file was downloaded, and I simply copied it to my Mac via USB, and installed it. Success!
Everything works like a charm so far. Looking forward to more travel blogging…
In theory all mobile broadband providers should work with an Apple mac computer. The actual mobile dongle itself is an uncomplicated piece of hardware that simply acts as a mobile modem.
The only area I can see users getting into trouble with mobile broadband is with the software installation. As with all things not all broadband providers are created equal, and some are much better at providing Apple mac support than others.
Please leave a comment on this page if you have had a tough (or brilliant) experience from a particular broadband provider.
In the UK, you can receive mobile broadband of the traditional mobile providers or from the traditional broadband companies that are trying to get into the mobile broadband space. Lastly, you can also buy mobile broadband dongles from a range of high street retailers. Links to all of these are below.
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