Boston 8550i User Guide – © 2012 Belgravium Technologies Plc
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GPRS Edge (Option)
Setting up a Connection
The Boston GPRS connection can be set up by the following actions
1) Highlight the GPRS Connection icon in the Network and Dial-Up control panel group
then tap Connection, Properties to open the GPRS Connection Properties page.
2) Select the required GPRS device from the pull-down list and tap the Configure button.
3) Under the Port Settings tab select 115k baud, 8n1, hardware flow control and ensure
all the three tick boxes are clear.
4) Under the Call Options tab clear the Wait for Dialtone box and enter the following
(case sensitive) string in the Special Modem Commands box:-
+cgdcont=1,"IP","xxx"
Where "xxx" is Access Point Name (APN) of your service provider eg. "internet" for a
Vodafone SIM or "mobile.o2.co.uk" for an O2 SIM.
5) Test the connection by double tapping the GPRS Connection icon in the Network and
Dial-Up control panel group. Check the phone number is *99# only and that all the
Dialling Patterns are set to ‘G’.
6) Expect the following sequence - Opening Port, Dialing *99#, Device Connected,
Authenticating User, User Authenticated, Connected.
7) If the connection fails at the authentication stage then check the User Name and
Password requirements of your service provider and enter them before reconnecting.
Make sure you tick the Save Password box if you enter a password.
8) Otherwise the GPRS link is now connected in an 'always-on' mode – you can close
theGPRS link at any time by double tapping the phone icon from the task tray and tapping
the Disconnect button.
