Q: What are the UK & ROI GPRS settings for Web. WAP, MMS

[waveydavey]

There is a definite way to see way the fault lies. If you're up for it you could set me up a test mail account and I could try a test from my device. If you want to do this though pm or email me the details rather than posting in the wild.

[neilm]

[quote="shomer";p="36433"]

Originally Posted by shomer";p=&quot

Again I STILL have the issue of not being able to sync over GPRS/3G.



Simon

Surely, if you can connect with the WAP connection, you ARE using 3G/GPRS, unless you are using a dial-up number.

Mobile Web or WAP both use the same carrier and will connect at the fastest available speed.

The difference is in the APN it connects via, but it would seem that Voda have started using a common connection for WAP an HTTP, hence the additional setting and port

[shomer]

Fair point - I will confess to not knowing enough about it to answer that one!

On the one hand it works but I dont know if it can work better - I am just puzzled why the GPRS settings described above dont work in their own right. If i have them both set up it goes for GPRS first and when it doesnt work it stops trying - it doesnt even switch to WAP.

Dave - yes we can try that tomorrow. We will set you up a dummy account - I will pm you the details you need to test.

Thanks!



Simon

[neilm]

Simon- I think you are confusing carriers and APN's

GPRS/3G is the data carrier medium which carries data traffic regardless of the type of connection (Web, WAP, MMS etc)

The APN is the Access Point Name you connect to at the 'other end' ie equivalent to your ISP. Most mobile operators have at least 2 APN's- one for Mobile Web and one for WAP. The devices consequently also have separate settings for Web and WAP, though they use the same carrier medium.

It seems to me that Voda are now using a common APN for all data traffic, and connecting via their WAP APN, with an additional proxy set up for http traffic, allowing a full set of connectivity.

But, it also seems, in you case at least, that the device doesn't know this, or is configured wrongly, so it is trying to use a non-existant Mobile Web connection in the absence of WiFi. This is why it won't then retry WAP, because it isn't set to use that APN for web traffic.

If it is tryly the cse that your Voda account only wants to use the WAP connection, then all the "connects to" boxes in the configs should be set to "Work" or whatever your WAP connection is called.

[petergriffin20]

You didnt give meteor wap settings would appreciate if you could.

[Willyfxp]

I need settings for Meteor Ireland too, doing my head in! I have Qtek 8500 aka dopod s300/imate smartflip
I have managed to set it for sending and receiving MMS but i cant get onto the internet with IE, seems to connect and look for site but then says connection cannot be established - most frustrating!!!
any help setting this up would be greatly appreciated

[neilm]

Hi Willyfxp- welcome to 4WM.

Meteor appear to be difficult to set up. Their customer support will only give advice on phones they actually sell, so don't support WM devices at all.

These are some settings you might like to try:

ISP GPRS
Profile Name: Meteor ISP
Connection Type: GPRS
APN: isp.mymeteor.ie
Username: my
Password: isp
IP and DNS are supplied on connection.

Bear in mind that you must contact Meteor and have ISP GPRS enabled on your account (as opposed to WAP GPRS which is enabled by default)

Let us know if this works

[Willyfxp]

Thnx for the reply neilm. OK i have all the settings for Meteor, and yes they are extremely unhelpful if they dont actually sell you the phone in the first place! Thing is, they didn't actually tell me there were 2 data settings, ie. WAP GPRS and ISP GPRS!!! Will contact them and see what the story is, then get back to you.

[Willyfxp]

neilm you are getting there! OK, i can now access the internet with those settings in my GPRS settings. I have also put the meteor mms settings in here, but i dont know how to set them to automaticaly switch between sending an mms and connecting to the internet!!!!! When connected to the ISP gprs settings it wont send or receive mms, and vice versa, i cant see anyway to even manually set these connections for each application as they both need to be set to'internet' to work!

[Willyfxp]

OK i've done it! MMSC and MMS settings in GPRS both needed to be set to connect via WAP.
ISP settings set to connect via INTERNET.
WOOHOO!!!
I will post the full settings for Meteor when i get a minute. Thanks for the help neilm! If only i'd known about the WAP GPRS and ISP GPRS.......lol would have saved me some headaches!
Tom