Any other o2 PAYG customers having problems surfing the web?

[Guest zerosignull]

Any other o2 PAYG customers having problems surfing the web?

[Guest martinlong1978]

Ahhh yes... this old chestnut.

Basically... there's a long and a short answer. The short answer is, no, you can't do it.

The long answer is, yes you can, but you can ONLY view web pages or wap pages, you can't use email (POP3 or IMAP) and you can't use MSN Messanger. Here's why:

For PAYG customers, you only have access to GPRS WAP, and not GPRS Mobile Web (like contract customers do)... there are currently talks at O2 to possibly introduce mobile web, however, they are still in the descision process, and no dates have been set, if it ever happens.

There is a little 'hack' however. O2 do provide a http proxy on their WAP gateway. Here are the settings:

Go to Start, Settings, more, Data Connections.

choose Menu, 1-Edit connections, 3 Proxy connections

add a new connection

Connects from: WAP Network (ensure you have your GPRS WAP set up correctly... I'm not going into that here)

Connects to: The Internet

Proxy: 193.113.200.195:8080

Type: HTTP

Username: (leave blank)

Password: (leave blank)

choose Done, and again

now choose "O2 Wap" or whatever you called your wap connection for both your WAP connection, and your Internet connection... that should do it. Any problems, let me know.

[Guest zerosignull]

i know. ive had it set up and working for mnonths but all of a sudden it has stopped working. i was just wondering if ne one was havving problems accessing www pages on there O2 PAYG phone

[Guest mr_end]

Any other o2 PAYG customers having problems surfing the web?

Yes, I am having the same problem!!!

It seems to take forever to find pages and it will not load some. A couple of weeks ago it was working fine!