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Appendix B: Always Best Connected (ABC) - Reference
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• or has only been open for a short time - the default is 0 minutes.
The PreventWhenVpn and PreventWhenBusy tags are Boolean. The PreventWhenNew tag is
numeric and defines the number of minutes for which a connection will be considered ‘new’.
Xml element Value Comment
PreventWhenVpn
boolean Prevent when a VPN is open.
PreventWhenNew
number Prevent when a connection is new.
SwitchingMode Auto
Prompt
Manual
This tag allows the OpCo to define
whether a switch to the highest prioritised
connection should be made
automatically, or whether the user will be
prompted, or if the user has to connect
and disconnect manually. The possible
values for these tags are Auto, Prompt,
and Manual.
HasSpecialModeChange boolean When the SwitchingMode is changed from
Off to Auto or Prompt, the LAN and Wi-Fi
connection types will be selected as well.
When the SwitchingMode is changed from
Auto or Prompt to Manual, the LAN and
WLAN connection types will be de-
selected as well.
PromptWhenRoaming boolean Prompt when roaming.
PromptWhenVpn boolean Prompt when VPN.
ShowNotifications boolean This tag defines whether the user will be
notified about a better connection by a
notification above the Vodafone Mobile
Broadband Notification area (‘system tray’)
icon when the switching mode is set to
Auto or Manual.
When in Manual mode, the notification
can be clicked to switch.
No notification will be shown when the
switching mode is Prompt, because a
separate prompt window will appear
anyway.
When the global switching mode is Auto, a
notification might still be desirable in
certain situations:
- A roaming scenario (for all three
situations: connect, disconnect, and
switch),
- When a connection is open and a VPN
connection is running through it, and this