Quick Start Guide Vodafone Mobile Connect Card with 3G broadband Designed for Vodafone
Welcome to the world of mobile communications 1 Welcome 2 Set up your card 3 Start the software 4 Software overview 5 Connect 6 SMS text messaging 8 SMS contacts 9 Card LED lights 9 Signal strength 10 Hints and tips 12 Glossary
Welcome Your new Vodafone Mobile Connect Card with 3G broadband lets you connect your computer to the internet over the Vodafone high-speed mobile phone network. Browse the web You can now access the web and any other internet service wherever there’s a mobile phone network . Pick up emails Keep up to date with your emails, wherever you are. You can also access your personal email accounts – even webbased accounts like Hotmail.
Set up your card Your SIM (Subscriber Identity Module is the small, postage-stamp-sized chip that you received together with your mobile subscriber contract. • Insert the SIM into the card as shown. • Insert the data card with a SIM card into the ExpressCard slot of a laptop. • The low profile data card has a built-in aerial – simply press the end and it will extend. When you have finished, push it back into the data card until it clicks.
Start the software On Microsoft Windows computers The first time you plug your card into a PC the software setup should start automatically, and proceed to set up your card. If for some reason the setup does not start, right click on the VMC Lite 9.3.x.x drive in ‘My Computer’ (Start Menu, Computer for Vista machines), select Explore and double-click the file called setup.exe on the card. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Software overview 1 Connect/Disconnect Connect via the mobile phone network 2 Views View data usage, and additional software settings 3 Start SMS program Send, receive and manage SMS messages and contacts 4 Status Check the status of your connection 5 Help Help Topics, plus internet and hotline support. The first time you run the software, your card will usually be set as the default device. If it is not, click ‘Manage Devices’ and select your card there.
Connect If a mobile network has been found, the Connect button in the Mobile Connections panel will be enabled. Clicking Connect connects to the internet across the mobile phone network. Now you can browse the web or use email. When connected, the Connect button text changes to Disconnect and a green ‘Connected’ indicator appears below the button. The radio waves on the Mobile Connections icon are animated whenever data is being transferred over the connection.
SMS Text Messaging Click Vodafone SMS on the navigation bar in the main window of the Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite software to open the SMS program. To send an SMS Click New at the left-hand end of the SMS toolbar to create a new SMS text message. The number displayed to the person who receives your message will be from your data SIM, not your mobile phone. Use a short ‘signature’ to make sure people know you sent them a message: Settings/ Messages/Signature.
Receiving SMS When you receive a new message, an SMS Notification is shown briefly so you can respond to it directly. The received message can also be read from the Inbox in the main Vodafone SMS window. The Vodafone SMS software will receive text messages whenever you have mobile network coverage.
SMS Contacts Click Contacts on the SMS navigation bar to open the Contacts list, in which you can save SMS numbers that you use frequently as contacts with names. New SMS Contact Clicking the New button on the SMS toolbar opens a new contact window. Enter the name and number of your contact using the international format for the number, eg. +447774477000.
Card LED lights The LED light on your card shows which kind of mobile network has been found, and whether the card is connected to that network. Green blinking A GPRS network has been found – you could connect Green solid Connected via GPRS Blue blinking A 3G network has been found – you could connect Blue solid Connected via 3G Light blue solid Connected via 3G Broadband.
Hints and tips If you don’t see your card in the list of devices – Remove the card – Re-start your computer – Re-insert the card. If no network can be found – Change your physical location: in a building, move closer to a window, move higher up, or go outside – (Windows) Select ‘View/View Available Mobile Connections’ and see if you can connect to a particular network in the list shown – Contact Support, and check that data services and roaming are enabled on your account.
– Check the name of the current network in the Mobile Connections panel. If it is not Vodafone or a Partner, select a different network from ‘View/Available Mobile Connections’. For further help, please visit www.support. vodafone.com, or call Vodafone Support on XXX or XXXXXXX. If the connection keeps switching between GPRS and 3G – (Windows) Click ‘Manage Devices’, select your device, click edit and then select a different network preference on the Network Preference tab page, eg.
Glossary Built-in Mobile data card built into notebook computer. data card Enables data connections over the mobile phone network. Data card/ A device for a computer that is used to open a USB stick data connection over the mobile phone network. EDGE An enhancement to GPRS networks offering higher speeds, although not as fast as those provided by 3G, or 3G Broadband. EV-DO A high-speed mobile data standard used mostly in the USA.
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