Monday, January 24, 2011

Windows 7, UMTS, and BASE APN settings

I recently received a UMTS card for my company's laptop. As I didn't want to install a third vendor's software, I tested whether Windows 7 was natively able to support the "Sierra Wireless Gobi 2000 HS-USB Mobile Broadband Device 9001", which is shown in the Device Manager.

After switching all wireless physically on (BIOS setup and also hardware switch on the case), I received an error stating that the APN was wrong - didn't know, where to set it up. However, I thought that it was due to the IMEI number not yet associated with our contract. I didn't look after it for a week, until my colleagues asked whether the card works. I checked again, but again the APN thing.

I googled a bit, but didn't find anything on the first page. So I also looked into the FAQ of the provider, but again no information.

Stunned, I simply right-clicked onto the "Mobile Broadband" thing in the network list. I found an entry saying "Eigenschaften" -- Properties.



Click.



Ah, Profile. Ah, APN settings.
There you go.