{"id":571,"date":"2007-10-16T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/16\/apn\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T20:40:58","slug":"apn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/apn\/","title":{"rendered":"APN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s attempt to use the USB modem GlobeTrotter Connect with my MacBook failed. I had the right PIN and the right software. But couldn&#8217;t connect.<br \/>\nThe preferences revealed a dialog box with input fields for an APN, a username and a password. I checked the help. There was no explanation what APN stands for&#8230; and whether it&#8217;s required or not.<br \/>\nAnd I was offline so i couldn&#8217;t search either. <\/p>\n<p>Aaargh. <\/p>\n<p>APN stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Access_Point_Name\">Access Point Name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The user manual can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/support.option.com\/att\/data\/GlobeTrotter_Connect_Mac_US_EN_1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the missing puzzle piece I need to connect. Or if it&#8217;s optional.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s attempt to use the USB modem GlobeTrotter Connect with my MacBook failed. I had the right PIN and the right software. But couldn&#8217;t connect. The preferences revealed a dialog box with input fields for an APN, a username and a password. I checked the help. There was no explanation what APN stands for&#8230; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1LJxC-apn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}