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ok, this one has beaten me. and I find no clue in the manual

the standby screen shows that my wifi network is available but if I go into the web application it starts up a gprs/3g data connection. The only way I can use wifi is by manually starting it first and then going to the browser.

I've checked every setting I can find but surely there must be a way to tell it to use wifi in preference to 3g/gprs when available?

windows mobile does it, P990 does it, so I'm sure this must do it but how please?
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:05:33
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didnt use to be able to get the n80 to use wifi automatically, you had to set an option someone in data connections (i think its in there-long time since i had an n80) to always ask what to use when connecting to internet, otherwise it would always choose a network connection instead of wifi
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:14:30
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@masseur at browser settings u have to "acces point" to "always ask" and follow the instructions in the former post here.


of course u can set your wlan connection as default as well

tip: set "homepage" to bookmarks, so u can choose among the site u wanna open, otherwise the default page will be started, its disturbing, if u wanna choose a site u wanna visit
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[ This Message was edited by: BobaFett on 2007-04-06 21:20 ]
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:17:39
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Hi Masseur,

Open the Web browser the choose Options, Settings, Access Point and then you have the option of always ask or user defined, hope that is what you where looking for.

Marc
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:24:28
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yeah, there it is, in the browser. thanks...

going back to the manual I still don't find mention of that

going forward, I now have 2 questions:

1. it was set to user defined so where does it get that value from? I assume it must be from some other setting by it only ever connected to the gprs/3g data account

do other applications that require internet access use the same setting fromthe browser or do they have their own connections setting?

I prefer the SE way of centralising it for all apps
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:28:43
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if u set at browser "always ask", before u wanna make any update for an app etc, u ll be asked, what kind of connection u wanna use ( actually i prefer that way )
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Posted: 2007-04-06 22:31:20
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@masseur

the standby screen shows that my wifi network is available

Did you click on wlan (i.e. the line showing your available wlan access point) in the standby screen?

On mine, I click on it - select wlan access point (if you have more than 1 wlan access point that is available) and click "start web browsing". The browser automatically connects to the selected access point.

But first remember to set access point option "Always Ask" in your browser.

[ This Message was edited by: mib1800 on 2007-04-07 05:01 ]
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Posted: 2007-04-07 05:56:09
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yes, what you describe is what I was doing when I mentioned in the first post when I was connecting manually

the "always ask" suggested earlier is working fine for me, though I'd prefer it to assume wifi as first choice when available (like windows mobile), or like p990, be able to assign a priority order for choosing internet connection
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Posted: 2007-04-07 07:40:01
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oic. I have look into all settings and it seems there is no way to do that. "Always ask" is the only option. So you still need some keypress to select accesspoint if you hyperlink to a url from other apps.


[ This Message was edited by: mib1800 on 2007-04-07 06:51 ]

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Saw in allaboutsybian.com, apparently in e-series, there is a "access point group" in Settings which you can group and setup access point priority. Hope nokia will make this capability available in future N95 firmware upgrade.

[ This Message was edited by: mib1800 on 2007-04-07 08:56 ]
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Posted: 2007-04-07 07:49:39
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@masseur but u can set wifi as deafault to start browsing and later u can swtich between connection types at "advanced settings" -"change connection"
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Posted: 2007-04-07 10:10:30
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