Tuesday, March 2, 2010

How To Configure Your Mobile Phone To Browse The Internet

Have you ever wonder that some people browse on their phone and you were unable to do so because you do not know how to configure your mobile phone to browse the internet even when your mobile phone have the facility to browse the internet? well if you are in such situation I am here to help you with the manual configuration.

As you know we have different operators who provide internet service and for that reason each networks have their own configuration so I will start with MTN configuration.
MTN
On your mobile phone go to settings and locate configuration and when you open it go to personal configuration open it as well and press option to open an empty screen but which will have "add new" at the bottom of the screen. Press it and start adding the information below to the required field as shown on the screen as you move down.
Account Name: MTN WAP
Home page: wap.mtnonline.com
user name; web
Password: web
change use prefered access point to No and press access point settings and fill the field as follows:
Proxy : change to enable
Proxy address or IP: 10.199.212.2
Port: 8080
select bearer settings and input this
Packet data access point: web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
Network type: Ipv4
Authentication: normal
User name: web
Pasword: web
when all this is done go back to personal configuration and press option which is written as opt. then press activate. If you have done all of this then you have successfully configure you mobile phone to browse the internet.
To test weather your new settings is working go to web and press home if you see it loading then you have done it but if it give an error of subscribe to packet data then you need to go back and check the configuration and see where you have missed the step highlihted in this article.

ZAIN
Account name: Zain wap
Home page: internet.ng.ain.com
User name: wap
Password: wap
Proxy: enable
Proxy or IP address: 172.18.254.5
Port:8080

Beare settings
Packet data access point: internet.ng.zain.com
Network type: Ipv4
Authentication: normal
User name: wap
Password: wap

GLO
account name:Glo
Home page: wap.gloworld.com
user name: wap
Password: wap
Proxy or IP address: 10.100.98.22
Port:3130
Bearer settings
Packet access point: glogwap
Network type: Ipv4
Authentication type: normal
User name: wap
Password: wap

Etisalat
Account name: Etisalat
Home page: http://mobile.etisalat.com.ng
User name: leave blank
Password: leave blank
proxy: Enable
Proxy or IP address: 10.71.170.6
Port: leave blank

Bearer settings
Packet access point: etisalat
Network type: Ipv4
Authentication type: normal
User name: blank
Password: blank

Well as you can see I have give all the configuration and settings that you can use to configure your mobile phone to browse the internet but do note that the mobile phone I use for my illustration is a nokia mobile phone because it is easier to use for this illustration but if you are using a different mobile phone do let me to through you comment and I will provide the illustration for you.
The illustration provided for mtnset up is what should be follow for the other networks it all the same thing. and to let you know you can have all of the network provider settings on your mobile phone just follow the steps highlighted here to add new network after one another.

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