Do you wish to find the Vodacom internet settings for your Samsung phone? Samsung is the most used cellphone brand in South Africa. They control about 48.04% of the market, followed by Huawei which has a market share of about 24.63%. If you have a Samsung phone, chances are high that the first time that you insert your Vodacom SIM into the device, it will automatically receive all the desired settings. However, that does not always happen. In that case, you would need to do things manually.
Samsung Internet Settings on Vodacom
Bellow are the Vodacom internet settings for Samsung phones. The sections marked leave blank are to be left without anything in them. Please don’t type in “leave blank.”
- Name: Vodacom 4G
- APN: internet
- Username: leave blank
- Password: leave blank
- Proxy : leave blank
- Port : leave blank
- Server : leave blank
- MMSC : leave blank
- Multimedia Message proxy : leave blank
- Multimedia message port : (Not Set)
- MCC: 655
- MNC: 01
- Authentication type : (none)
- APN type : default,supl
- APN protocol : IPv4
- Bearer : Unspecified
- Mobile virtual network operator : none
How to set up Vodacom internet settings on a Samsung phone
Those are the Vodacom internet settings for a Samsung phone? But how do you go about configuring them? You need to take the following steps. First, go into Settings on your Samsung phone. Next, click on Mobile Networks. From there, go to Access Point Name. Finally, click on Add New and configure the settings as given above. Before exiting, save your changes and then make sure the new profile is selected. Now you should have internet.
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You can get these settings from Vodacom via SMS
In this post, we showed you how to manually configure the Vodacom internet settings for your Samsung phone. But you don’t actually need to do things manually. You can receive all these settings on your device automatically.
Please read this article to find out how to do it. Once you have received an SMS bearing the needed settings, save it and you should now be able to connect to the internet.
What is an APN anyway?
APN stands for Access Point Name. It’s the name of the gateway through which your device gets connected to the intenet. If you have a new phone and if you are having problems getting it online, then it’s likely that you don’t have the correct APN settings. So, this should be the first port of call as far as troubleshooting connectivity issues on your Samsung phone is concerned.
Do you have questions? You can post them on our Vodacom forum. If you would like to test your internet speed, you can do so using our SA Broadband Speed Test Tool. Otherwise leave comments below.