Saturday, February 26, 2011

Configure WiFi Settings N97mini

First up, we need to find out if you have a Wi-Fi access point for your network. If yes, then you need to find out the security access settings (if security is enabled) and second, if this is a DHCP network or you have to manually configure the settings?

Your choices will be (after you log on to the network):

  1. If Wi-Fi access point is DHCP enabled, then your phone should automatically acquire an IP for use on the network and you are good to go.
  2. If the Wi-Fi access point is not DHCP enabled, then you need to get the IP for your phone. (we will address the manual configuration later when we configure the proxy)

OK. So far so good. Now, if your phone got an IP automatically (as per pt. #1 above) then you would look to set your proxy settings. While people who need to assign an IP manually, need to follow an extra step as follows:

  1. Open your Menu ( this is done by pressing the menu key on your N97 mini) and then to “Settings”
  2. Under “Settings” Go to > “Connectivity” > “Destinations” and finally to “Internet”. (phew!!! that was looooong!!!)
  3. Now, select the access point from the list that you want to configure. Let’s call it “Planet3” (in this example). Now, open Planet3 settings by clicking on it two times (like you double left-click on your PC).
  4. You will now see the settings for the access point. That’s good. Now, click on options button at the bottom left of the screen and select “Advanced Settings” from the list. This will take you to the advanced settings.
  5. In Advanced Settings, You will now see four settings, namely IPv4 settings, IPv6 settings, Proxy Server Address and Proxy port number.
  6. For those whose phone already has an IP set by DHCP, please set the proxy server and proxy port here and then just click OK or Back and close the settings screen and return to the Home Screen and you are finished and ready to use your network at work. For those whose phone needs manual assigning of an IP, please go to next step.
  7. For setting the phone’s network IP manually, click on the IPv4 settings option in the Advanced settings from step 5.
  8. Now, click on Phone IP address and set the IP that you got from your network administrator. Click OK and then set the network DNS by going to DNS addresses and then setting your primary and secondary DNS (if any). Click on OK and exit and then return to Advanced settings menu and set your proxy address and proxy port if you haven’t already done so. That’s it!

There you go. No one told me how to do it. I found out and now I share the same info with you people. Hope you liked it! Please share your comments and don’t forget to tell your friends about this blog! ;-)