I Can Browse But I Cannot Download With My MTN, See Reason And Fix Here

Sometimes we have noticed that some MTN subscribers do cry foul that they are unable to download with MTN data subscriptions but that they can only browse with it.

Sound a bit mysterious or awkward if you ask me, but it happens sometimes.

Now before we provide the fix, let’s see the possible reasons or the causes of not being able to download with your MTN line even when your data bundle is still intact.

At first you might want to reason network issue, but the case here is that it allows for browsing but will not download; so automatically ruling out network issues here, because if it was really network problem, then both browsing and downloading would not work.

Ok, here is the major cause of unable to download with your MTN line most of the time; some of you have in your phone Access Point Settings (APN) included the proxy and port line i.e. have set the proxy line to 10.199.212.2  and port to 8080, which actually is the right MTN proxy address and port.

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But what happens here is that when you include the proxy line and port as given above together with the APN line of web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net in the MTN APN settings, it interferes with download activity and therefore preventing you from downloading in most instances.

Now, in order to solve the unable to download issue on your MTN line, all you need to do is to delete any input on the Proxy line and Port or just leave them empty and set only the APN line as web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net after that you should now be able to download again.

So if you are have been unable to download with your MTN line, just go to your phone’s APN settings and wipe any input on the proxy and port line and save your settings, your ability to download will be restored.