US T-Mobile $4.99/$9.99 Internet access

[Guest mrrippey]

Hey gang, have not been here for a while. Wanted to know if anyone can get Internet access on their unlocked SMT5600 using one of the two plans mentioned? I don't know if I want to pay $19.99 for Internet access when I am not going to use it all that much. Anyone with settings, please post or point me to the right post.

I get SMS and I get email working but no IM or Internet.

Thanks in advance, great board.

Edited March 1, 2005 by mrrippey

[Guest bobblah]

internet works just fine for me, i'm using the 9.99 plan with the 8080 proxy. my im didn't start working until i sub'd to a text msg package. but that's just me. i use newsbreaker for most websites, or skweezer

[Guest markgamber]

Hey gang, have not been here for a while.  Wanted to know if anyone can get Internet access on their unlocked SMT5600 using one of the two plans mentioned?  I don't know if I want to pay $19.99 for Internet access when I am not going to use it all that much.  Anyone with settings, please post or point me to the right post.

I get SMS and I get email working but no IM or Internet.

Thanks in advance, great board.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You can set up your phone with wap.voicestream.com as the access point and a proxy using T-Mobile's port 8080 proxy service. Then you can access wap normally and "regular" web using the $5/mo plan. Pop3, smtp, imap and secure versions of the above will also work. An AOL client may be able to connect as AOL listens on all ports, it's a matter of whether or not the client can be forced to use an open port or is smart enough to try "standard" ports if it can't connect using the normal port. Forget about MSN, however, as it uses a single port not opened by the cheap T-Mobile data plans. There are mobile sites available that provide a sort-of MSN client and can be reached so worst case, you do MSN like you would AOL via T-Mobile's wap site. They're not as clunky and slow as TMo's, it's just an analogy. To set it up as described above:

Settings->Data Connections->Menu->Edit Connections

GPRS Connections:

Description: GPRS

Connects to: The Internet

Access point: wap.voicestream.com

Select Done leaving everything else on that screen empty. Now go back to the Connections list and select

Proxy Connections:

Description: Proxy

Connects from: The Internet

Connects to: WAP Network

Proxy (name:port): 216.155.165.50:8080

Type: HTTP

Select Done leaving everything else on that screen alone.

When you've entered those two items (making sure those are the ONLY two items in the entire Connections area. No Dial-up, no VPN, no nothing except those two or you're on your own), go back to the data connections screen and set everything (Internet Connection, Work Connection, etc) to "Automatic". Almost done. Now bring up IE and go to Menu->Options->Connections. Clear the checkbox "Automatically detect settings" and under "Select Network", select "WAP Network".

Done. You should now have WAP and web access. Now, using IE ONLY, try www.google.com to make sure the port 8080 proxy works and then try wap.myvoicestream.com to make sure WAP works. If you're using Opera, you can edit the opera.ini file to make the proxy work. Down near the bottom of the file there's a line with an IP address:Port. Simply replace that address and port with 216.155.165.50:8080 (as above in the Proxy section) and make sure the "Web Accelerator" (or whatever that option is called) is ENABLED. This setting originally points to Opera's subscription accelerator plan proxy service but a proxy service is a proxy service and pointing it to TMo's service gets you web access.

[Guest mrrippey]

Settings->Data Connections->Menu->Edit Connections

GPRS Connections:

  Description:  GPRS

  Connects to: The Internet

  Access point: wap.voicestream.com

Select Done leaving everything else on that screen empty. Now go back to the Connections list and select

Proxy Connections:

    Description: Proxy

    Connects from: The Internet

    Connects to: WAP Network

    Proxy (name:port):  216.155.165.50:8080

    Type: HTTP

Select Done leaving everything else on that screen alone.

When you've entered those two items (making sure those are the ONLY two items in the entire Connections area. No Dial-up, no VPN, no nothing except those two or you're on your own), go back to the data connections screen and set everything (Internet Connection, Work Connection, etc) to "Automatic". Almost done. Now bring up IE and go to Menu->Options->Connections.  Clear the checkbox "Automatically detect settings" and under "Select Network", select "WAP Network".

Worked like a charm, you are the man!!!

Well spoke too fasat. It worked for about 15 minutes but now I can't connect to anything web, NO even Google is coming up. I got the $5 deal, maybe should I upgrade to $10 deal?

Thanks

Rippey

Edited March 5, 2005 by mrrippey

[Guest revolution.cx]

Well spoke too fasat.  It worked for about 15 minutes but now I can't connect to anything

Welcome to T-Mobile USA. Wait another 15 minutes and try again.

I have the $10 plan. Email access always works great - web is flaky so I assume it's their crappy proxy server (the port 8080/wap thing).

[Guest mrrippey]

Welcome to T-Mobile USA.  Wait another 15 minutes and try again. 

I have the $10 plan.  Email access always works great - web is flaky so I assume it's their crappy proxy server (the port 8080/wap thing).

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

At this point, neither works. I get a "call cannot be placed" error. Great.

[Guest McHale]

Do they give CSD (dial-up) free or do you pay extra for it like you do with Cingular?

I'm seriously considering making the switch...

-Mc

[Guest sixonenine619]

Funny I just changed my settings to match these, I can visit certain webpages now even though i have no internet package at all. I have SMS messaging, not sure if that matters. But I went to www.google.com and i can do searches. This typical.

damn it, now it stopped working. Kinda works on and off

[Guest soli1978]

When your phone is connected to the GPRS, can you use bluetooth to connect your laptop to the phone and use laptop to connect the net? Is "using the phone as a modem" thing just that or is GPRS something different?