Open Sprint Mobile Broadband and click Go to verify that you can connect.
•Sprint Mobile Broadband displays “Insert your Device”.
After reinstalling Sprint Mobile Broadband and verifying that the drivers are installed properly in Device Manager, Sprint Mobile Broadband continues to display “Insert your Device”. Try one of the following:
Go to
Go to Windows Device Manager. Expand (+) Modems and
•Make sure you have install privileges on your machine
If your laptop/desktop was issued to you by your company’s IT department, make sure you have admin rights to installed SW/HW on your machine. You may have to be added to the Admin Group or Power Users group on your machine. If this your personal computer, sign in as Administrator.
•The installation of Windows is not up-to-date.
Browse to Windows Update using an alternate Internet connection to ensure that all of the latest Service Packs and updates are installed.
•Another application is conflicting with Sprint Mobile Broadband.
Ensure that applications such as ActiveSync, HotSync, WinFax and/or other connection managers are not running in the System Tray (i.e., the icons located by the clock on the Windows taskbar) while using the Sprint Mobile Broadband.
If the steps above do not resolve the issue, please contact Sprint Customer Service at
2.I receive an error when I try to connect to the Internet.
Although there are a variety of error messages that you may encounter, most of them can be resolved by following the steps below:
Error message example:
•There is not sufficient signal strength to connect.