Configure Your Account - Sierra Wireless AirCard 800 Series Installation Manual

4: Configure your account

• Set up a profile
Rev 1.2 May.07
Profiles contain account information used by the AirCard USB
modem to establish connections. At least one profile must be
set up on the AirCard USB modem before you can use it. The
profile(s) may have been stored on the AirCard USB 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
• 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 USB 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 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
selecting a profile. The default profile is also used if you set the
AirCard USB modem to autoconnect when Watcher launches ,
but only if the connection type for the default profile has been
set to autoconnect.
If you are using the AirCard USB modem 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).
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