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Vodafone wireless internet on laptop (GPRS) What do I do? |
secret6666
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Hello. I am all new to this wireless internet on phones. But was wondering if you could help me. Basically I want to connect my laptop to my phone (via bluetooth) to the internet, I have a Sharp GX30i phone on the vodafone network (has GPRS), and my laptop has a bluetooth dongle ready. So, I installed the modem software on my laptop, and it has come up with Select modem driver - so I selected Bluetooth. Then under neath it says APN (#1 up to #5) then a blank space after (presumably for some more codes/numbers.) Then under neath this there is another option which says CSD Call - Either 'Via Analogue Line (V.32) or Via ISDN line (V.110). Can anyone suggest which one I choose, and if so, what do I do? Then after this the 'Dial-up network entry comes up, where there is a space for Connection Name (which is SHARP GPRS (bluetooth) by default, then 'Username' (which is blank) and password (which is also blank.) And then there is an advanced box.
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amd1129
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Firstly pair ur fon n laptop and then select the dial up net. Service n then enter the number *99***x*# where x stands 4 CID of ur data account
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secret6666
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What is my data account? CID? And that number you gave, what about the APN number, what do I set that to?
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masseur
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On 2005-05-25 17:09:45, amd1129 wrote:
Firstly pair ur fon n laptop and then select the dial up net. Service n then enter the number *99***x*# where x stands 4 CID of ur data account
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I have only ever got that to work on  phones and every other phone I have used like this I have had to use the full AT command as the dialling string which is
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","apn"
where the last parameter "apn" is your actual APN
that usually suffices but if you need the ful spec of this command read here
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secret6666
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Ok right, well my actuall APN is apparantly pp.vodafone.co.uk, and the IP is 212.183... sommit, does that need to replace the IP in AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","pp.vodafone.co.uk"
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amd1129
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M8 u hv to enter no at pc n ask ur metwork operator bout APN ur CID is in ur data account
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masseur
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the APN is the access point name and is a text value whereas CID is the numerical sequence number of the data account within the phone so really whether you use 1, 2 etc depends on the CID value of the data account which has the APN that you wish to connect to
in general you need to connect to a full GPRS data account which for vodafone means the APN is "internet" (no quotes)
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secret6666
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is there a way to find out the CID value of the data account? |
masseur
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On 2005-05-25 17:20:45, secret6666 wrote:
Ok right, well my actuall APN is apparantly pp.vodafone.co.uk, and the IP is 212.183... sommit, does that need to replace the IP in AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","pp.vodafone.co.uk"
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thats a wap APN whereas on vodafone you almost certainly need a full internet GPRS APN as I don't know of any proxy servers you can use with vodafone to get around the wap limits like you can on O2 pre paid
edit: on SE phones the CID is listed along with the data account info but on other phones I have used (like V3 etc) you simply have to count the data accounts from the first until you get to the one you want, starting at 1, and the count you reach gives you the CID value
thats why I prefer to use the command I gave as it always works no matter what phone
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secret6666
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Dam so its kinda impossible! |
masseur
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I'm not too familiar with vodafone pre paid. do they offer full internet access or only WAP?
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amd1129
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Yes u can find cid value in data accounts> account and u get 3 options including 1 that tells CID val
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secret6666
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Cannot find the CID.
I am not sure if they provide full internet access is there any way I can find it out? This is probably nothing to do with it, but I know for a fact that I can access any sites on my phone, not just vodafones.
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masseur
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you can access any web sites? or any wap sites?
my son is using a pre paid vodafone card at the mo but only for wap so I'll have a play tonight and see what I can find out about it
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secret6666
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Yep I can access any sites on my phone, not just WAP ones, thank you!:D |
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