I’m beginning the process of switching to T-Mobile (from Cingular), because “Tmo” has very cheap all-you-can-eat data plans: from free to $19.99, depending on the level of studliness you want.
I’ll be using a Sony-Ericsson P900.
There are apparently 4 different “Internet plans”:
- $0.00 – “free/unlimited internet”, aka “basic WAP”
“just ports 80 (web), 25 (smtp), 110 (pop3), 143 (imap). ”
all others blocked (and some reports say only port 80 is allowed as of late 2003)
access to the t-zone portal sites. NATed?
uses APN ‘wap.voicestream.com’ - $4.99 – “unlimited t-zones”, also aka “basic WAP”
same as above, but access to t-zone portal
uses APN ‘wap.voicestream.com’ - $9.99 – “unlimited t-zones pro”
same as above, but access to slightly different portal
allows one to “access corporate email” ???
uses APN ‘wap.voicestream.com’ - $19.99 – “T-Mobile Internet Unlimited”
no blocked ports, non-NATed too?
uses APN ‘internet2.voicestream.com’
Does ‘internet2’ represent a GPRS gateway and ‘wap’ a GSM gateway?
Calling their ‘data specialists’ was pointless. Comments in t-mobile howardforums are also very confused.
Some perhaps useful info gleaned tho, in rough order of usefulness:
- “Definitive Internet/T-Zones plans post”. It gives current (Jan 2004) and historical definitions for the various T-Mobile Internet plans. Unfortunately,
he calls everything ‘WAP’ and thus makes no distinction between GPRS and GSM. - Also by the same author: “How to configure WAP on Ericsson P800/900”
- There is a T-Mobile Wireless Data Configurator that may be useful. Once you go through the ‘wizard’, it sends a magic SMS message with configuration information that’s supposed to ‘just work’.
- Setting up a P800 on T-Mobile: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=262715
- Free WAP allowed ports”
- thread about free wap
- Outgoing SMTP mail server : “myemail.t-mobile.com”
- “Internet2/Internet3 DNS settings”:
- West DNS – Primary: 216.155.175.40 , Alternate: 216.155.175.41
- East DNS – Primary: 216.155.175.170, Alternate: 216.155.175.171
- Central DNS – Primary: 216.155.175.105, Alternate: 216.155.175.106
whatever the fuck that means, maybe ‘internet2.voicestream.com’?
- “So for those of us who want to use the free data instead of paying $19.99, I understand the following change has to be made in our connection settings.
- Previous with $19.99 plan: +CGDCONT=1,,”internet2.voicestream.com”
- Now with FREE wap plan: +CGDCONT=1,,”wap.voicestream.com””
The ‘internet2’ / ‘wap’ hosts are referred to as ‘apn’s. what is that?
- Sony-Ericsson t68i settings with T-Mobile:
T-Mobile Settings Configure for free WAP access: go to settings--->connect--->data comm add account GPRS CID=1 preferred service=GPRS and GSM SMS access=GPRS configure APN as wap.voicestream.com no user id no password no IP address no DNS address Go to WAP Services enter a new profile configure to connect using GPRS from above IP address=216.155.165.050 (dots get entered automatically) No user ID no password data mode=conn. oriented security=off chg homepage: select a page such as http://wap.voicestream.com If you call T-Mobile customer support, they can email you a file which will automatically configure these settings, but you may be on hold for awhile! Configure for unlimited internet access: go to settings--->connect--->data comm add account GPRS 2 CID=2 preferred service=GPRS and GSM SMS access=GPRS configure APN as internet2.voicestream.com no user id no password IP address=216.155.165.050 (dots get entered automatically) no DNS address set Bluetooth options as follows: mode-->operation mode=on or automatic make discoverable or pair with your computer if you haven't done so. set your computer or handheld to use bluetooth, "telephone number": *99***2# No account name or password. You should be able to connect.