AirCard 800 Series Installation Manual - 4: Configuring Your Account
4: Configuring Your Account
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Profiles contain account information used by the AirCard
modem to establish connections. At least one profile must be
set up on the AirCard modem before you can use it. The
profile(s) may have been stored on the AirCard modem before
you purchased it. Otherwise, your service provider should
give you all the information you need to set up the profile(s)
you require.
Depending on your service provider, some or all of this infor
mation must be entered into your profile:
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User Name
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Password
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APN (Access Point Name)
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IP (Internet Protocol) Address (if the address is not
automatically assigned by the network)
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Use of IP header compression
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DNS (Domain Name Server) address or addresses
Your service provider may give you only one APN in which
case you require only one profile. Some service providers
assign separate APNs for separate purposes. For example,
some service providers supply one APN to use for Internet
browsing and a different APN to use with a VPN. In this case
you must set up multiple profiles. The AirCard modem allows
for up to sixteen profiles.
Most service providers have one or two standard profiles that
all or most of their subscribers are expected to use. Most of
these standard profiles have been pre-defined in Watcher,
allowing you to select a standard profile, rather than creating it
manually.
One of your profiles must be set as the “default” profile. This is
the one that is used if you select the
Connect
button without
selecting a profile. The default profile is also used if you set the
AirCard modem to autoconnect. If you are using the AirCard
modem to access a network that requires you to provide a
password each time you connect, you must set the connection
mode for your profile to prompt for password (in which case
you must connect manually).
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