Wireless data settings cheat sheet

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Paul Wright16 July 2007, 8:15 AM

If you want to swap a SIM card out of a modem and use it in a mobile phone ... or use Windows/OS X's inbuilt dialup software rather than the ratty proprietary stuff provided by your mobile network, you'll need to know these settings.


If you want to swap a SIM card out of a modem and use it in a mobile phone ... or use Windows/OS X's inbuilt dialup software rather than the ratty proprietary stuff provided by your mobile network, you'll need to know these settings.

 

Network APN Setting Username & Password
Telstra Mobile telstra.internet Leave Blank
Telstra BigPond telstra.BigPond Username: user@BigPond.com
Password: yourpassword
Three 3netaccess Leave Blank
Vodafone vfinternet.au Leave Blank
Optus internet Leave Blank

 

A note for Mac users: Mac OS X comes with a pretty outdated set of dialup modem scripts that don't cater for the wide variety of handsets out there today. However, one script warrior in the UK, Ross Barkman, has hacked together his own very comprehensive set of scripts. Check them out.

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chiquiloco (New user):

i would like to drink some beers

08 January 2009, 2:28 PM (1 year ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

GB (New user):

having problems getting connected with a new virgin sim that I am trying to use in a telstra elite Seira m308 broadband usb. When installing the virgin sim, I get connected then it says that it is an unrecognised profile and disconnects. I have input the to unlock but cant seem to get it to work with the virgin sim.

Any constructive advice welcome.


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