What Number?

[Herb]

Yesterday I used my Vodafone mobile broadband modem for the first time since I installed Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 on my laptop, and the Kaspersky
"Anti-Dialer" prevented it from dialling.

I would like to find out the number the modem uses and enter it as a trusted number in Kaspersky, but I can't find the number.

Kaspersky reveals this 'helpful' information, apparently received from the Vodafone software: *99****15#, and I can't find the number modem settings either.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find the answer by searching this forum...

[heady]

The service numbers (codes) have nothing to do with specific handsets... and everything to do with 3GPP standards.

It appears that I was a bit trigger happy and submitted prematurely - and then editing failed with an error.

To continue...

The service code is just a phone number that initiates a GPRS session.

To talk across the radio network through to the Internet network - GPRS "tunnels" via what is called Packet Data Protocol (PDP) contexts. Each PDP context is effectively a communication channel and modems/phones may support one or more PDP contexts. Most modems/phones will have default PDP contexts set which can be modified and displayed with AT commands. i.e. AT+CGDCONT=1 and AT+CGDCONT? and AT+CGDCONT=?

The last digit then tells the phone which PDP context you want to use.

*99# Dials the default PDP context
*99***1# Dials the PDP context in memory location 1
*99***2# Dials the PDP context in memory location 2
etc...

Different phones allow different numbers of PDP contexts. Nokia's typically allow 2; whereas, Ericsson's typically allow 10.

[Retired-Jon_V]

Hi guys,

Heady is correct, the numbers on the end point to the right location within the modem in which the APN settings are stored.

Usually *99# is sufficient, but we have different manufacturers with slightly different configurations for each modem, so you may need to use *99***1# or *99***15# depending on this.

Jon

eForum Team