Guest jmcglynn Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 My M2000 was preconfigured with two types of connections:- Orange GPRS WAP Orange GPRS Internet I have accidentally deleted the Internet one. However, the WAP one seems to work fine. What's the difference? Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fraser Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Wap is charged by the minute and is pretty slow IIRC. It's charged like a voice call. GPRS is pure data and is charged based on how much you download, which is much fairer. You can download a page and read it without paying for your reading time. You want to search for "orange gprs settings" on the site to find someone giving an example so you can fix it. There should be a lot of info on setting it up. Some users prefer WAP because you can get free minutes on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Samsonite Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 errm.. not strictly the case i'm afraid fraser... WAP over gprs is still charged by the MByte or Kbyte as the info is sent over the packet switching channels rather than the circuit switched channel like a voice call. My understanding of the difference is more akin to areas of the internet envirnoment you are browsing. WAP over GPRS will go to WAP sites and have addresses starting with wsp://www.blah.whatever. WSP is WAP Session Protocol. It will route traffic thru your SP's WAP prtal and will do this either circuit switched or packet switched traffic. GPRS internet will allow you to surf the proper internet rather than the WAP sites allowed thru the WAP portal. Orange have just instigated age verification for WAP and WSP sessions but have seemed to missed off the Internet side of things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ichilton Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Fraser has explained the difference between the Orange Wap and Orange GPRS Wap. The difference between Orange GRPS Wap and Orange GPRS Internet used to be that the Wap one only did Wap - if you wanted to access internet pages, e-mail or use your phone to access the internet from you laptop/pda, you had to use Orange GPRS Internet. On the M2000, either seems to work for both - so i'm not sure anymore! Anyone know if there is a functional difference? --ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmcglynn Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Thanks so far guys. I have a feeling that both are the same. This reply is from my m2000 via the GPRS Wap connection, and it definitely connected via GPRS rather than a phone number. Can someone check their connections to see if they are the same please? TIA Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmcglynn Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Ok, just checked the archives, and the difference seems to be the AccessPoint. orangeinternet is used by "GPRS Internet". orangewap is used by "GPRS WAP". So.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ichilton Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 orangeinternet is used by "GPRS Internet". orangewap is used by "GPRS WAP". Yep - that's right. But as I say - nowadays (or on the M2000 anyway..), they both seem to work for internet and wap. --ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GothTeddy Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 jmcglynn beat me to it :lol: If you want to recreate the settings, just duplicate the wap settings and replace "orangewap" with "orangeinternet". Only thing I noticed in functionality is that orangewap wouldn't let me access my email servers. (which was a pain in the arse seeing as I had unlimited GPRS WAP)... Though, checking that just now, it seems that they've removed that limitation.... ******* :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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