GPRS Setting for Afghanistan

[besjr69]

Well I was so happy yesterday. I received my new MWg Atom (great phone BTW) and was all set to set up GPRS. Unfortunately, Afghan Wireless Communications Company does not support this device. They do all of their GPRS setting via OTA SMS. This is a very long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows what the manual GPRS setting are for AWCC or Roshan in Afghanistan. The Auto Configurator does not have either of these networks. Pakistan is the closest country I could find in the list.

Bobby

[quark1980]

sorry dude, all you can find about those networks is to call customer service..

they should help you out with a device wich needs manual settings...

[besjr69]

Thanks for the reply, but I've already been down that road. They just hang up when you mention your device is not Nokia, Samsung or Motorola. They insist my phone doesn't support GPRS, but of course it does. Also, I erased all of the settings and got connected, but it is very slow (8Kbps max). I believe I'm connected to their GPRS, but they also have an INTERNET profile which is supposed to be faster.

[maihannijat]

Well I was so happy yesterday. I received my new MWg Atom (great phone BTW) and was all set to set up GPRS. Unfortunately, Afghan Wireless Communications Company does not support this device. They do all of their GPRS setting via OTA SMS. This is a very long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows what the manual GPRS setting are for AWCC or Roshan in Afghanistan. The Auto Configurator does not have either of these networks. Pakistan is the closest country I could find in the list.

Bobby

check the following AWCC GPRS settings

http://maihan.info/forum/index.php?topic=2.0

[maihannijat]

check the following AWCC GPRS settings

http://maihan.info/forum/index.php?topic=2.0

[besjr69]

Maihan,

Thanks for the reply. I'd already configured the phone like you described in your post. Actually, I have successfully used three different settings

APN: wap
Username: awcc
Password: 1111
Proxy: 10.100.1.52 (port 80)
*limited to HTTP traffic only. Slow to start, but fast when it recognizes DNS

APN: internet
Username: blank
Password: blank

APN: blank
Username: blank
Password: blank
* both these connections are slow. Speed test show 2.8Kbps MAX

AWCC shows that it connects at EDGE speed, but the connection is much slower than regular GPRS. Seems like it wasn't worth the cash to have the phone. What speeds are you getting? Also, it appears that after 1700hrs, I can't even get a connection. I really wanted to use AWCC to replace the high cost internet service I subscribe to now. I was at least hoping to get at least 56Kbps service out of this.

If you have any other advice please reply. Thanks.

Bobby

[maihannijat]

Dear Bobby,

Hope you are fine and doing your best,

Thanks for sharing with us your settings,

I have tested these all settings and have checked my speed, the speed of AWCC is very slow, my average speed with all three settings is between 1 -12 kbs.

I don’t think so your phone is bad because sometimes AWCC get hang and the internet doesn’t work for while.

Maihan Nijat