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Using Cricket Broadband Connect
17 Using Cricket Broadband Connect
Today’s online world offers more services everyday and Cricket Wireless gives you the tools you need to take advantage of the best in connectivity solutions. With Cricket
Broadband Connect, enjoy the freedom and convenience of wireless Internet connectivity from your computer!
FEATURES
WWAN WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK, 1xEVDO/1xRTT SPECIFIC FEATURES
• Configures your laptop or desktop computer to use your wireless device as a modem.
• Creates a Cricket Wireless Internet connection.
• Copy utility to create wireless copies of your dial-up connections, if supported by your device.
• Signal strength display for your Wireless USB Modem.
• Features a test function for your WWAN device.
n A WWAN capable device is required to use the WWAN features. Individual WWAN features are also device dependent as described in the WWAN section above.
OTHER FEATURES
• Can also be used to launch all of your dial-up networking connections, if desired.
• Can launch your browser, e-mail client, VPN or a program of your choice upon connection.
• Logs connections used, duration and bytes sent and received.
• See the section “Additional Features” for more information about the features of
Cricket Broadband Connect.
GETTING STARTED
Double click on the Cricket Broadband Connect icon on your desktop or click on the Windows Start menu and select Cricket Broadband Connect from the list of Programs.
ABOUT THE NETWORKS VIEW
The Cricket Broadband Connect will open the Broadband Networks window by default. This view is where you manage your Broadband connections. The Broadband Networks
window displays all currently available network connections.
At a glance you can see the signal strength. Your current connection state and the elapsed time of the connection are displayed along the bottom of the status bar.