Adding your USB Next G™ device to Network Preferences

Before you can connect to BigPond Wireless Broadband, your USB Next G™ device must be added to your Mac's Network preferences, as an available 'Network Service'.

Warning Without this one-time step, your Mac will fail to connect to BigPond Wireless Broadband.

  1. Click the Open Network Preferences button below. Your new Next G™ device will appear in the list of network services as “wireless”.
  2. Select this new “wireless” service then select Rename Service from the Action menu Action menu, below the services list.
  3. Enter a unique name for this new service, e.g. “BigPond Wireless” (or “BigPond Wireless 2” etc.) and press Rename.
  4. Close the Network preferences window, and press Apply, to save this new network service.
  Mac OS X Network preferences window.