User manual VERIZON VZACCESS MANAGER

[. . . ] Verizon Wireless VZAccessSM Manager User's Guide I Verizon Wireless VZAccess Manager Table of Contents Part I Introduction 1 1 Supported Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 Installation and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The VZAccess Manager Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Open my browser to my default home page: With this option selected, when you connect to a Wi-Fi network VZAccess Manager will automatically launch your web browser and your default home page will load. Open my browser to this URL: With this option selected, when you connect to a Wi-Fi network, VZAccess Manager will automatically launch your web browser but do it in such a way that the URL you specify will load instead of your home page. Disable IE Proxy settings for this connection: This option provides an automatic method to turn off proxy settings when connecting to a Wi-Fi network. This would typically be used if you normally use proxy settings at work to access the Internet and you wanted to access the Internet directly via Wi-Fi without using VPN (Virtual Private Networking) software. Run program on connection: This allows automatically running a program when you use VZAccess Manager to connect to a Wi-Fi network. Select the browse button to browse to the desired application you want to run when you connect to a Wi-Fi network using VZAccess Manager. The application will run for all Wi-Fi connections made from VZAccess Manager. VPN Tab The following options exist on the VPN tab ("Tools, " "Preferences, " "Wi-Fi" tab, select "Add" or a network in the "Preferred Network" list and "Edit, " then "VPN"): © 2007 Verizon Wireless VZAccess Manager Preferences 48 VPN Client: VZAccess Manager automatically detects if certain VPN clients like Microsoft, Cisco, CheckPoint, etc are installed on the computer and allows you to select the one you wish to use. If the VPN client you wish to use does not appear in the list, you can select Other VPN Application Other VPN Application: This allows automatically running any VPN program when you use VZAccess Manager to connect to the Wi-Fi network you added or edited. Select the browse button to browse to the desired VPN application you want to run when you connect to the Wi-Fi network you added or edited, using VZAccess Manager. If you have a shortcut you normally use to launch your VPN application you may want to right click on it and select properties to see where the program is located and how it's named. 3. 3 Options To access the Options tab, click on the "Tools" menu, then "Preferences. . . . " and select the "Options" tab. © 2007 Verizon Wireless 49 Verizon Wireless VZAccess Manager Network Display Options Only show preferred wireless networks at start up: This only applies to Wi-Fi networks. If checked, at startup, only networks in your Preferred list on the Wi-Fi tab are displayed (networks you have connected to in the past) otherwise, all detected networks are displayed. Display advanced Wi-Fi network information: This only applies to Wi-Fi networks. If checked, additional information will be displayed for Wi-Fi networks such as the channel, MAC address and type of security. Run Options Minimize Application into tray: With this option selected, when you minimize VZAccess Manager, instead of taking up space in your taskbar, it will just disappear. You can get it back by double clicking on the tray icon , alternatively you can right click in the icon and select "Show Application. " You can minimize the main window of VZAccess Manager by selecting the minimize icon ( ) in the upper right corner of the main window. Show pop-up status windows by tray: Enables status notification in a pop up window above the task bar that displays for a few seconds whenever connection status changes. Run VZAccess Manager at Startup: Selecting this option adds VZAccess Manager to the Windows Startup group, unchecking it removes VZAccess Manager from the startup group. © 2007 Verizon Wireless VZAccess Manager Preferences 50 Automatically close conflicting applications: With this option selected, VZAccess Manager will automatically close any application it recognizes that is known to prevent it from working correctly. For example, it may close the client software that was supplied with your Wi-Fi card, if it's known to conflict with VZAccess Manager controlling your Wi-Fi card. 3. 4 Venturi Preferences The Venturi tab will only appear if the Venturi client has been installed. To access the Venturi preferences, click on the "Tools" menu, then "Preferences. . . . " and select the "Venturi" tab. Venturi Options The Venturi compression software (if installed) works in the background between your computer and Venturi compression servers on the Verizon Wireless network to improve your performance when using BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess. This option is selected by default and allows VZAccess Manager to automatically turn the Venturi compression software on when you use VZAccess Manager to connect via BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess, and off when you disconnect. Unselecting "Compress and accelerate WWAN connections" will cause VZAccess Manager to no longer toggle the Venturi compression software on and off when using BroadbandAccess or NationalAccess. The recommendation is to leave this option selected because it helps in most cases. There are some rare situations where you may get better performance by turning the compression software off, so the option is available. [. . . ] Short text messages of generally no more than 140-160 characters sent and received by wireless devices. SSID Service Set Identifier. An SSID is also referred to as a Network Name because it is a name that identifies a Wi-Fi network. Most access points broadcast their SSID. Sync To compare and synchronize two or more sources of data. TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol UMTS Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) is an approved 3G standard that uses 5 MHz channels for both voice and data, offering excellent voice capacity and a peak data rate of 384 Kbps. NTT DoCoMo launched the first WCDMA service in 2001 and now has millions of 3G subscribers. URL Uniform Resource Locator USB Universal Serial Bus. [. . . ]