Internet connection confusion

[Guest tedp]

I recently purchased a Cingular 8525 and have some questions about how internet connectivity works.

Background:

1. I'm not going to drop $500 a year on Cingular's data plan but I do want to receive e-mail on the 8525.

What I want to do is receive e-mail over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth if I happen to be close to a partnered PC but not over the cell network.

How do I set that up? Every time I go into the Connection manager, I get a list of stuff that all seems to be centered around using the cell network. That makes me nervous. Cingular's data charges are staggering if you don't have a data plan.

Also, if at some point in the future, I do have a data plan, how do I configure the phone to favor a Wi-Fi connection over the cell network?

Hopefully that made sense. Just very confused about what the relationship between the connection manager and the Wi-Fi network manager.

Thanks!

[Guest zgadgeter]

Hi,

i'm searching also for a fundamental understanding of what all the various settings mean. Usually i can get a particular setting to work, but i'm not really sure of what i'm doing. I'd like to understand what is happening in the background. How does the phone know which settings to use when? Etc. etc.

Have you received any help on this?