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drad Posts: 137

I have had great success with the public WAP gateways posted here and am grateful because I wouldn't have GPRS WAP access without them since the Voicestream gateway mostly does not work.

Now, I'd lile to mimic that success with GPRS access on my PDA. The Voicestream internet2.com gateway for PDA access doesn't work well either.

Is there such a think as a public GPRS (i.e., non-WAP) gateway? And, if so, can someone post the settings?

Thanks. Cheers.
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Posted: 2002-06-05 00:24:00
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abudinsz Posts: 63

Hi,

I think you have APN's and WAP Gateways confused...
VoiceStream has 2 seperate APNs for handling WAP and Data
wap.voicestream.com for WAP
internet2.voicestream.com for handling Data

Gateways are only needed for WAP access... when you are using your phone for a data connection the data APN provides the NAT for your device attached to your phone as well as DNS and IP configuration. I'm not sure how VStream has their APNs configured in th NY are, but here in Texas I have to use the internet2 APN for all public gateways because VStream for some reason blocks all gateways on their Wap APN.

Hope this helps...

Andras
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Posted: 2002-06-08 01:23:00
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drad Posts: 137

Perhaps so. Here in NY, the internet2.voicestream.com just won't work with a Palm OS pda so it's pretty worthless. the wap gateway is equally bad, so I use the vstream wap APN and alternative gateways (which are substantially, substantially better).

I dumped the pda GPRS bucket and switched to a plan with more minutes. when I want to access email from the pda, I'll just dial in the old-fashioned way.

Exactly why voicestream configured GPRS access only for Pocket PC is a mystery to me. Why wouldn't they want to get business from the Palm market? Makes no sense.
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Posted: 2002-06-08 07:32:00
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henrion Posts: 14

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On 2002-06-08 07:32, drad wrote:
Perhaps so. Here in NY, the internet2.voicestream.com just won't work with a Palm OS pda so it's pretty worthless. the wap gateway is equally bad, so I use the vstream wap APN and alternative gateways (which are substantially, substantially better).

I have been unable to access any 3rd party WAP gateway through the VoiceStream WAP APN for some time now. It worked initially when they first enabled GPRS but it appears now that their WAP APN is firewalled to only allow access to their gateway. I'm on the $3/month plan so I can't access the internet2 APN.

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Exactly why voicestream configured GPRS access only for Pocket PC is a mystery to me. Why wouldn't they want to get business from the Palm market? Makes no sense.

It's an issue of support. Once your account is setup to access the internet2 APN, you can use anything to connect to the Internet (PC, Pocket PC, Palm, whatever). The problem is what software you use to connect and how good it is and how expensive it is for VoiceStream to support. Pocket PCs are easy to connect to a TCP/IP network via dialup (or LAN) out of the box and are hence easy and cheap to support. Palms are much more of a pain in the ass and hence more expensive to support because they weren't originally designed to connect to the Internet.

More business from Palms, maybe. Higher support costs for VoiceStream, definitely. VoiceStream has a hard enough time supporting people who know what they're doing. Imagine them having to support people who don't have a clue....
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Posted: 2002-06-08 16:41:00
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