Three mobile network appears to be blocking hummy.tv

EEPhil said:
There's something wrong with the configuration. If you add /forum you get a 404 error. If you then change https to http it seems to work. The set up appears to be a dog's breakfast!
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I get the same, with https and /forum on wifi I get a 404 error. Changing to http I can see all the forums on wifi. Switch to Three mobile broadband and I get the error I posted at the start of this thread, which I think confirms this is not a DNS issue otherwise it would have worked going to a direct IP address.
 
I tried registering for a Three account again. Registering email address works fine, then Three ask for the mobile number(s) to associate with the account. Give that, and then they try to send a text so you can confirm the number is correct and link it to the account. This is an iPad, they don't receive texts because Apple don't allow it. This makes it impossible to register this Three SIM for an account unless I happen to have another device I can put the SIM in (which I don't, it's a data SIM).
 
Years ago I had a Three dongle with what might have been a data sim. It installed a program on a PC which managed the connection and allowed text messaging. Is there a Three app for i-devices that can do the same?
 
EEPhil said:
Years ago I had a Three dongle with what might have been a data sim. It installed a program on a PC which managed the connection and allowed text messaging. Is there a Three app for i-devices that can do the same?
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I'm not aware of an app. However I do get messages about the rate when I'm roaming so clearly there is a way for Three to get messages to a data SIM in an iPad, so why can't they do that?
 
HugeMaximum said:
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The answer given there is to talk to Three's customer services team. Whenever I do that they won't do anything for me until I change to a current product, which would cause me to lose my free EU roaming on this data SIM. I'm sure that's the point, and I'm not accepting that. If they had a current product with free EU roaming on a data SIM I might do it, or there was a competing product that offers it I might switch. But I've looked several times and never found one, the networks all seem to think data SIMs will generate vast amounts of data and they can't allow that on a data SIM, but surely that's what the monthly usage cap is for?
 
EEPhil said:
I had a Three dongle with what might have been a data sim. It installed a program on a PC which managed the connection and allowed text messaging.
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I did too, in a Huawei WiFi hotspot device. I'm not sure I'm right about there not being any non-data mobile connection to a SIM on a data-only plan, but it stands to reason that SMS is in the "calls" payload rather than the data payload, because of its history... unless the move to 3/4G has altered that...

Owen Smith said:
This makes it impossible to register this Three SIM for an account unless I happen to have another device I can put the SIM in (which I don't, it's a data SIM).
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Physical SIM (not eSIM)?
Owen Smith said:
they won't do anything for me until I change to a current product, which would cause me to lose my free EU roaming on this data SIM.
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Then perhaps it is worth sourcing a cheap dumb phone (perhaps even second hand, or borrowed) to stick the SIM in just to receive a text (if that is possible), since you are essentially trying to game it.
 
Black Hole said:
Then perhaps it is worth sourcing a cheap dumb phone (perhaps even second hand, or borrowed) to stick the SIM in just to receive a text (if that is possible), since you are essentially trying to game it.
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It's a physical SIM but I've had bad experiences in the past putting data SIMs in phones and vice versa. The networks don't like it, Apple doesn't like it, and on one occasion it caused the SIM to be blacklisted and not work in anything (it wasn't fried as I could see it's address book on a dumb phone). Yet again they're worried about unlimited data and/or free roaming phone SIMs being put in tablets or data devices. The upshot is I'm not willing to risk it with this SIM since I can't get another data SIM with free EU roaming.
 
Owen Smith said:
It's a physical SIM but I've had bad experiences in the past putting data SIMs in phones and vice versa. The networks don't like it, Apple doesn't like it, and on one occasion it caused the SIM to be blacklisted and not work in anything (it wasn't fried as I could see it's address book on a dumb phone). Yet again they're worried about unlimited data and/or free roaming phone SIMs being put in tablets or data devices. The upshot is I'm not willing to risk it with this SIM since I can't get another data SIM with free EU roaming.
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Not sure if this video helps...
 
HugeMaximum said:
Not sure if this video helps...
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It doesn't. That allows an iPad to be linked to an iPhone, it does not remove the need for an iPhone.

My satnav can connect to my (Android) phone by Bluetooth, and pick up an Internet connection and/or act as a hands-free for voice calls, and a previous model of satnav was able to manage SMS massaging, so you would think it should be straightforward to write an iPad app able to connect to a phone by Bluetooth for messaging (I would love that), but no – it doesn't exist therefore it's a fair bet Apple won't allow it.
 
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