WAP over CSD and MSN Messenger

[Guest DigitalSpectre]

I have a very quick question, I'm on O2 and am considering getting a C500, unlocking it and using it as my main phone, however, I dont tend to use GPRS (dont really want to, poor student :cry: ) So was wondering how well the internet works on the Smartphone using Dialup WAP.

I.e Can i still loads full web pages as if i were using GPRS, and more importantly can I still use MSN Messenger??

Regards

Mike

[Guest phaldred]

MSN Messenger does not work on o2, i emailed them about that subject and got the following repsonse:

Dear Phil,

Thank you for contacting O2 Customer Service.

I am sorry to inform that this service is not supported by O2. Hence, I am unable to offer any assistance in this regard.

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.

If you need further information regarding this matter, please reply to this email.

For further details about O2, please visit our online Help Centre at:

http://www.o2.co.uk/help

Kind regards,

Prerna Gangwani

O2 Customer Service.]

best network ive ever been on o2, untill they told me that.

with normal wap, web pages still load but a little slower,

for the connection settings http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=116826

Edited December 31, 2004 by phaldred

[Guest DigitalSpectre]

And this refers to Pay Monthly yer????. So just to clarify b4 i go get this handset, MSN = No, Web Pages fine for Dialup Wap just slower?

Thanks very much

Mike

[Guest Confucious]

Check to make sure your PAYG account is DATA Enabled if it is then it should work but WAP is NOT the same as the internet. You should be able to just use a dialup ISP provided tou have data access but it will be slow (and therefore expensive.

And the O2 homepage is one of the few webpages that is NOT viewable in pocket ie - D'Oh!

[Guest sidebp]

I'm on contract O2 - messenger works fine over GPRS (I get 0.5mb) free with my contract.

You can use WAP dialup to access the "normal" internet but it is very slow and often pages fail to load (cant find site - DNS problem with O2??).

[Guest jfran]

if that is the case using wap csd, try addind the DNS 193.113.200.200 and DNS2 193.113.200.201 and see if makes any difference.

try http://pda.o2.co.uk / or myxda (o2 Asia) from PIE to access the o2 site, you would get the home page however it may not load anything else.

rgds

jim

Edited January 2, 2005 by jfran