Installation guide

3: Configuring Your Account

Note: If you are running

Mac OS X, please refer to the

Watcher Quick Start Guide for

the Mac OS X 10.4.x found at

www.sierrawireless.com/mac

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:

• User Name

• Password

• Access Point Name (APN)

• Internet Protocol (IP) Address (if the address is not

automatically assigned by the network)

• Use of IP header compression

• Domain Name Server (DNS) 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 Virtual Private

Network (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 3G 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 when 3G Watcher launches,

but only if the connection type for the default profile has been

set 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 your connection profile to prompt for password

(in which case you must also connect manually).

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