Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Free Browsing with zain and MTN Nigeria

MTN ON PC
1. Register on this site:
hxxp: www. your-freedom. net/
A message will be sent to ur email. Click on the link provided to
activate your account. please make sure u remember your

username n password.
2. Use the link below to download the your-freedom client software: http: ems01. your-freedom. de/download/freedom-20081212-01. exe

3. Install this software. After installation two window pops up.  Just close the WELCOME page         and continue with the other one.  

4. Click on "CONFIGURE". A new window pops out

5. Under Address use: http:wap.mtnonline.com%2f%asiri0@85.214.45.170 Go to "protocol" and click'' on the box. Change it to "https", the port automatically changes to "443"

6. Tick/check the following boxes:

(a. ) automatically connect on startup (b. ) reconnect after server shutdown (c. ) redirect SOCKS4/5 DNS to freedom server (d. ) Enable encryption Leave the others.  
7. Go to "Account Information" tab. Input the Username and password you used on step one above.  
8. Go to " Proxy settings". Under Proxy address: 10.199.212.2 Proxy Port: 8080. Thats all u need to do here.  
9. Look under and click on the tab "Save and Exit". This window disappears. 
10. Go to the Your-freedom client window again and click on the tab "Ports". Tick/check/mark the boxes:SOCKS 4/4 and Web Proxy.  
11. Go to the tab "Applications" and mark/tick. check all the needed boxes. Hit the "OK" when u are done. U should get a successful message.  
12. Go back to the tab "Status". In the interim just minimize this window. We shall get back to it.  
STEP 2
Normally you would configure your applications to use the Your Freedom client as web or SOCKS proxy. There are cases where this doesn't work, for example if the application does not support it. Often, "socksifiers" help in these cases but sometimes they fail as well.  

It will be a lot simplier if nothing had to be configured at all and everything simply worked. Well, that's what OpenVPN mode is all about!

It transparently tunnels your application traffic through the Your Freedom client, without your applications knowing.  

Usually after configuring Your freedom, you will still need to set

Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, YIM and other applications to use

Freedom's Proxy which is "localhost:8080", but with this new style, you do not have to setup any application to use "localhost:8080". All your applications will automatically connect 
through freedom. You can even use the lastest YIM,update antivirus,trade forex, youtube stream live videos and do everything u do on a normal broadband connection.  
The following should increase ur browsing speed and stability by a minimum of 200%.  
The only other thing needed is "OpenVPN", which is a software available
for download here: http: openvpn. net/release/openvpn-2. 1_rc15-install. exe
After downloading OpenVPN, install it.  

Once it's installed, click on "Start", "Control Panel", "Network connections". Find the TAP-WIN32 interface, right-click on it and choose "Properties". In the protocol list, find "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", highlight it and click on "Properties". Use a manually configured DNS server: 81. 169. 172. 219. If you feel like having two of them, use 81. 169. 100. 186 as the second but it's not needed. Click all the OK buttons to close the windows. That's all the configuration you need, you don't have to mess with the slightly cryptic internals of OpenVPN, the Your Freedom client will do this for you.  

Enable OpenVPN in Your Freedom. Now start the Your Freedom client. Click on the Ports panel. Under "Local Services", find "OpenVPN mode" and enable it. The port number should be 1194 unless you have to change it -- in fact it can be nearly anything between 1024 and 65535 but 1194 is the default and usually fine. That's it!

You should be done now! Start the Your Freedom connection and watch the door symbol. It should open as it normally does, but a few seconds later it should open further. Check out the message log, it tells you when OpenVPN is ready or if there is any problem.  

Now be sure that your applications do not use a configured web proxy or SOCKS server other than the Your Freedom client. I say other than the Your Freedom client because it doesn't matter if they use it -- they just don't have to anymore. Also, do not use any socksifiers. Install and run your games and applications just like you were at home with a DSL or cable router connecting you to the Internet.  

Windows Vista

With Windows Vista there is more work to be done. Fortunately, Microsoft has started with Vista to care more about your safety than they have with older Windows versions. Unfortunately, this breaks OpenVPN mode unless you grant admin privileges to the Your  Freedom client so it can pass them on to OpenVPN (with older Windows versions the YF client would inherit the privileges automatically from your account). There are two ways to achieve this:

1. Run the YF client by right-clicking on the icon and choosing "Run as administrator" each time.  
 2. Modify the start menu and/or desktop links by right-clicking on each of them. Choose "Properties", then click on "Compatibility" and tick the "run as administrator" check-box.  
It's a matter of taste which method you use. The second method is aonce-and-for-all method and i recommend it.  With Vista it is also important that you do not stop and re-start the connection too quickly. Give it a few seconds to settle after you've stopped the connection or OpeNVPN might not come up 

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The ZAIN Free Internet Browsing Manual.

Introduction

This report will help you to connect to the internet using the zain network as a medium for free.

However, because this stuff is free, it might stop working any time and then there might be other settings that would work but for now, you can use it till it stops working.

However, you must now that the connection will be terminating every 60 minutes and you can re-connect back. You are also going to be using the IP from France.

I have detailed how to go about it step by step in this guide but note that you will have to download 3 software to make it work.

Because of this, you will need to look for a cybercafé with high speed.

The first software is about 11MB and the second one is about 36MB and the third is around 5MB. Without them, there is nothing you can do with this manual.

So, let’s start with the requirements.

Requirements

In order to use this free connection, you will need to get a GPRS enabled phone, a new Zain SIM card and a USB cable to connect your phone to the computer.

The Phone

The phone should preferably be nokia because that is what I will use in explaining in this report. The Nokia types that would work are Nokia 3110c or Nokia 6230 (price range is between N12,500 – N16,000). Any of the N series will also work fine with it.

SIM card.

Due to the constant upgrading of sim cards, you will need to get the latest ZAIN sim card to use for this connection. I believe it is around N300 as at the time of compiling this report.

USB Cable

This one too is very important unless your phone and computer has blue tooth that they can use to connect.

If the phone you want to use does not come with a USB cable, simply take it to the market to get a good USB cable that would work fine with it. The USB cables are definitely not worth more than N500.

Installation starts here

The first thing you have to do is to go to www.your-freedom.net to open an account. Opening an account is free and I have some pictures here to show you how to go about it.

The page at your-freedom.net looks like the one below. On the upper right, you will see a link that says “First visit? Click here to register”


After clicking on the link that says Click here to register, a page will come up which you have to fill so that you can open a free account with them. See it below:

Once you click on submit, a page will come up that you should check your email to confirm your registration.

So, just go straight to your email and you will see an email from them like the one below.

When you open it, you will see a link that you have to click on. Click on it and a page will open showing that you can now log into your account.

You will now have to download the software that Your-freedom.net gives so that you can use it for the connection.

To get the download link, login to your account with the username and password that you used in registering and then click on the link on the upper side that says “downloads” like in the picture below:

Once you click on the link, a page will come up and you will see a table in it like the one below, just go to the second role and look for the link under “Download servers” that is titled Mirror (FR). Right click on it and download it.

The server is like 11MB and it will take some time to download.

When you have downloaded it, install it on your computer by right clicking on it, select open and then click on NEXT 6 times and the program will install.

You will now have to open the your-freedom software that you have installed on your system by double clicking on the icon on your desktop. The picture above shows how the icon will look like.

Once you open it, you will see the picture below:

Firstly, click on configure, the one I circled in the diagram above. When you do so, another table will come up. Under the TAB that says Internet connection, fill in the following details like the one below:

Initial server - ems11.your-freedom.de Don’t add https like I did in the picture below.
Port – 443
Protocol – Choose https

Tick the ones I ticked like in the picture below:

Minimum buffer size: 1500
Initial post size: 10000000
Minimum post size : 20000
FTP mode – Choose both

After that, click on proxy settings like in the picture below and enter the following details:

Proxy address: 172.18.254.5
Proxy port : 8080
Proxy type: Choose HTTP/HTTPS
Proxy authentication: Choose ANY or NONE

After that, click on account information and put your username and password there like in the picture below, then click on SAVE and EXIT:


When you do that, it will return you back to the table you were before where you clicked on configure.

On getting there, click on the ports tab like in the picture below and enter the following info:

Check Socks 4/5 and Web proxy.
Under the first port, enter 1080 and in the second port, enter 8080. 

Next, click on Messages and change Minimum level to INFO.

When you have done all, click on the STATUS tab and then click on the button that says “Start connection” like the one below:

NOTE – It won’t connect now because there is no Internet connection on your computer yet. 

How to Connect Your Phone To The Internet

The next thing you have to do is to connect your phone to the internet.

Firstly, get your SIM card configured by calling the ZAIN customer service at 113. That should be after you have gotten your Nokia phone anyway.

The next thing you should do is to download the Nokia PC suite for your phone from the Nokia site at www.nokia.com

The PC suite is like 30+ MB and it will take some time to download.

Once you have downloaded it, install it on the system you want to use for the connection (the one you have already installed your-freedom on)

The installation is easy. Just right click it and open it. Click on all the next you see and it will install.

Once the installation is complete, use the USB cable you bought for your phone to connect your phone to your computer (either laptop or desktop)

The phone will ask you to choose a mode, choose nokia mode and click Ok. By the time you look at the taskbar of your computer, you will see the computer connecting with your phone. That is done, you will see Nokia 3110c connected via USB (If you are using Noia 3110c)

With that done, now go and open the Nokia PC suite that you installed.
When it opens, it will look like the one in the picture below:

Now, click on the “connect to the internet icon” (It is the one I circled in red in the picture above)

You will see another box open where the phone will try to make a connection. As at this time, it can’t get connected because of the settings.

Click on the settings Icon (In form of a spanner) and you will see this next diagram come up where you will choose your type of phone (which is Nokia 3110C in this case)

After selecting the modem, click on next which is the arrow circled in red above and the next page will come up where you will be asked to select your network provider.

Choose the configure the connection manually option and click on next like in the picture below:

On the next page like below, you will now enter these settings:

Access point: wap.ng.zain.com
Username : wap
Password : wap

You can now click on finish and click on the connect button.

If you have configured your SIM card, you will see that the PC suite will show you connected.

How To Configure Mozilla Browser

You can now start browsing right now but we will have to configure the browser (Mozilla) mozilla is the best browser you can use for this connection but it won’t browse until you make the necessary configurations.

Download the Mozilla browser on your computer from their website at www.mozilla.com and install it. You can also get it from the people who sell software in case you do not want to download it.

Once you have installed it, you should now open it.

Go to tools and select options on the drop down menu the way you see it in the picture below:

After clicking on options, a box will come up. On that dialogue box, select the advanced tab like in the picture below and click on network:

After clicking on network, you will see the page below. You will now click settings in front of “Configure how firefox connects to the internet” 

After clicking on settings, you will see another box come up. On that next box, do the following:

a. Choose the option that says “manual Proxy Configuration.
b. Now enter the following in the areas listed like in the picture below;

HTTP Proxy – 127.0.0.1 PORT - 8080
SSL Proxy – 127.0.0.1 PORT - 8080
FTP Proxy - 127.0.0.1 PORT - 8080
SOCKS Host - 127.0.0.1 PORT – 1080

After that, click on OK and that is all for Mozilla.

You can now start browsing with your free zain connection.

To do so, open your-freedom on your computer and select the start connection tab once your phone and the computer is connected.

Then, launch your Mozilla browser and continue your work.

How to Use Messengers
In case you want to use messengers like Yahoo, MSN or Google messengers, you will have to configure them. To do , simply go and get the required settings at the your-freedom website.

The page you will go is below Click on DOCS and FAQS at the top and click on Instant messaging by the left hand side and you will see the different configuration illustrations for the different messengers.


This is where I rest my case.

Like is said, the free browsing stuff might stop anytime. When it stops, don't worry, just look out for the next one or better still, pay good money for something better.

Thanks for reading.

Elvisprest