T mobile dongle and connection issue's

[Colbaker]

Hi All,

A friend has given me his new laptop as he cannot get the new T mobile dongle to work, I have installed it (which he had not) and in the third party software it connects, When opening internet explorer it keeps saying i have a connection problem, I have tried disabling windows firewall with no luck, The strange thing is i can ping google website through a command prompt?

It's installed on windows 7, please help

 

[Colbaker]

Its a Huawei E1630 Dongle and at the moment it is connected via GPRS, There is also no setting to change it to 2g or 3g, The one thing i am looking into is my friend has not told me if it is a pay as you go sim and more importantly if he has actually put any money on it, if he had not then would it still connect?