User's Manual

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4: Configuring Your Account
• Setting up a profile Profiles contain account information used by the AirCard to
establish connections. At least one profile must be set up on
the AirCard before you can use it. The profile(s) may have
been stored on the AirCard before you purchased it.
Otherwise, your service provider should give you all the infor-
mation 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:
• User Name
• Password
• APN (Access Point Name)
• IP (Internet Protocol) Address (if the address is not
automatically assigned by the network)
• Use of IP header compression
• 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 allows for up
to twelve 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 to autoconnect. If you are using the AirCard 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).