With Cingular, one could get away with using their “Unlimited MEdianet” data plan ($19.99 per month) to have full internet access (which they try to charge you $44.99 per month for) by simply bypassing their proxy server. Unfortunately, T-Mobile is smarter than that, and forces you to buy their $19.99 internet plan if you wan’t unrestricted access to the internet without using a proxy server. I don’t consider this a down side since its essentially the same price I was paying with Cingular, except I’m no longer breaching my terms of service agreement by tethering my phone to my laptop.
Since I didn’t buy a T-Mobile phone (but kept my Cingular branded Nokia 6230), I wanted to post the GPRS settings for T-Mobile so I wouldn’t forget them… If you don’t want to type these into your phone, use this online configurator to send a “Connection Settings” message to your T-Mobile handset. Note that it did not send any connection settings to the phone’s “tethering”, “E-Mail”, “IM”, or “IMPS” GPRS profiles, so I still had to enter them manually. Usernames/passwords for GPRS should be left blank (although one source suggested “nokia” as the username for MMS).
T-Mobile Internet VPN
Unlimited internet with static IP
Homepage: any
Proxies: Disabled
GPRS Access Point: internet3.voicestream.com
T-Mobile Internet
Unlimited Internet, IP allocated dynamically as GPRS is used
Homepage: any
Proxies: Disabled
GPRS Access Point: internet2.voicestream.com
T-Mobile Web/T-Zones
T-Zones, WAP, IM, & E-Mail only
Homepage: http://wap.myvoicestream.com
Proxies: 216.155.165.50:8080
GPRS Access Point: wap.voicestream.com
T-Mobile MMS
Picture & Video Messaging Settings Only
Homepage: http://216.155.174.84/servlets/mms
Proxies: 216.155.165.50:8080
GPRS Access Point: wap.voicestream.com
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