Hi,
Just a simple connection question,
What is the difference between the preset WAP connection and an internet connection?
Thanks
Marc
Hello.
In general, with wap only connection you can just browse pages and use applications that support http proxy (if your carrier has wap 2.0 support, but it should support that)
With an internet connection you get full internet, including: POP3/SMTP/IMAP, IM, telnet, etc etc.
In other words, wap access has internet ports blocked. In general only the http(s) port is open (eg: 8000, 8080.. 443 for https)
Thanks for the reply
Do they both use 3G/GPRS to connect?
Marc
No problem
normally Yes.
In general, the big limitation is available open ports, like I've said earlier. And maybe the maximum speed. Also the response time may be affected because the data pass thru additional proxy, but in 3G is not that noticeable (as I've observed).
The connection is defined by an apn (access point name). My operator has "wap" for wap acces and "internet" for full internet. This differ from network to network.
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Hi all - i have my xda mini s setup to connect to the internet and collect my exchange emails all works fine.
i use it at work + at home a lot and both locations have a wifi broadband network.
i would like my xda mini s to only connect to GPRS for web browsing and emails when a stored wifi network is not in range (eg when im on the road)
Is it possible to enter in this preference anywhere? thanks in advance for any help
Actually, as far as PIE or any program that connects to the internet is concerned WiFi takes precedence over GPRS by default.
The problem is MS push mail. It forces GPRS even if WiFi is connected. If you try to serf to a graphics heavy site wile connected to both GPRS and WiFi you will see the speed difference.
I am not sure what the logic behind this MS stupidity is, and unfortunately I don't know of any cure except deleting the GPRS settings.
hi - and thanks.
damn.
well i did have a qucik test i went on the web and it seemed to be connecting to gprs (while i was already connected to a wifi network)
i will have a play.
There's one other thing I forgo to mention:
When connection to WiFi make sure you select the correct value under "This network connects to".
I assume your GPRS settings are under My ISP and that is what's selected in Settings->Connections->Connections->Advanced->Network selection.
You should then select "The internet" for the WiFi network.
Hi there!
Maybe I'm just too stupid, but I've benn trying for weeks now to setup the network parameters for my University's Campus network and failed miserably, so could someone please explain to me how this darn "Internet Connection Manager" works?
What I need in brief:
How can I setup a proxy to use with and only with
- HTTP(S) and FTP(S)
for a WiFi-Network that
- is NOT encrypted
- does NOT require dialing a number / accessing a modem
- does NOT use a VPN
??
Whenever I try this it always results in the connection dying completely.
In other words: When I select my standard UMTS-uplink as "default connection for programs connecting automatically" and then manually establish a WiFi-connection I can reach all computers available on the campus network get ping responses and everything, but I cannot use a proxy, hence not load off-campus pages.
When I define a new connection and enter my settings (just WiFi-name and the proxy details) I can still establish a WiFi-connection, but get a ping timeout even on the access point and the intranet servers usually available through the WiFi. No SSH login, no intranet, nothing (but I do get an IP assigned & stuff)
Here's what I would like to do in theory:
=> Manually connect to a WiFi-Network called "tuwlan".
. -open network
. -no encryption
. -IP, netmask, gateway, nameserver etc provided automatically by DHCP
=> Establish a SSH2 (SecureShell) connection to our on-campus proxy server and tunnel some ports to get through the Subnets (extremely restrictive) firewall.
. -SSH including port forwarding done with PockeTTY, works like a charm
=> Use Opera Mobile to surf web pages and FTP Sites through the proxy "localhost:40081" (which is forwarded to our campus proxy server through SSH2).
=> The Proxy only knows HTTP(S) and FTP(S), so all other programs (ICQ, Skype etc) are not to use it!
This setup used to work great with older Opera versions, but they removed the proxy setting dialog in favor of directly using the ICM settings.
So now I'm stuck with Microsofts Internet Connection Manager
Can anyone please help me to get this working?
Over the last few hours, my phone tethered has allowed me to ping external clients via their IP, but not their domain name. I can even use nslookup to change the name server to 8.8.8.8 (google NS), which pings successfully, but fails to act as a DNS server.
Data on the phone is fine, but tethering is very sporadic. A few times was able to get some web pages via IE and Firefox, but now things seemed closed.
This is via both USB and Wireless, ICSControl and built-in ICS for WM.
Right now I'm only able to tether by using a http proxy server.
But, without the proxy server, I'm able to browse websites via IP address. Very strange. It's almost as though port 53 is blocked, or maybe just UDP all together is blocked?
Anybody else having DATA problems tethering?
--tj
Hi,
Here’s my situation – at my office they use Cisco IronPort to monitor and filter all internet requests. A transparent proxy is used on the network switches to direct port 80 traffic to the IronPort server. Initially only the browser on my phone would work as that is the only app that passes the correct authentication. All other apps fail to reach the internet. But the IronPort server can be configured to pass through a type of device if it can be identified. Using the IP address of my phone to filter the traffic logs, it seems that some apps pass “Windows Phone OS” in the data packets. And by adding “Windows Phone OS” to the IronPort exception list, those apps now work. But most apps still don’t work because they don’t include any windows phone identifier in the data packets. Can anyone provide any additional info on this subject or a possible solution?
Thanks.
bump... any ideas... anyone?
Use cellular data instead of your corporate network?
Use apps that use the new socket APIs, or connect to HTTP servers running on a port other than 80?
Complain to your IT people (commoditization of IT being what it is, I'm actually surprised by this restriction)?
See if you can get them using proxy authentication instead of packet inspection for authentication purposes (WP7 supports proxy authentication on WiFi)?
Find a job with an IT infrastructure that doesn't suck?
Hi All,
I am currently working on something, which sounds simple in some respects.
I need my spare android phone to act as an FTP Server - Easy enough done on a LAN, but I need to make it accessible across the internet, as I need to get a service I use to send files to my phone via FTP (its a long story, but the service can only email large files automatically, and they exceed the average 25mb size limit - or they can FTP - no other transfer method is available). I also need to use my mobile, as all the internet access I have whilst on the move is via my mobile, and I cannot setup the network at home to do port redirect, so its basically the phone has to be the ftp server (and seemingly the router)
Rather than buying an FTP and webspace, I have read up on a few things that can be done. I have downloaded "My FTP Server" and set that up on my device, which is accessible over the LAN. I then downloaded Port Forwarder, and configured the incoming port, redirect outgoing port and the loopback IP of my phone to direct traffic.
I then signed up to http://freedns.afraid.org/ and created a subdomain, which when I input the current IP Address of my device on the Internet, resolves correctly, so it can see the IP correctly.
Theoretically, I can see no reason why this is failing. I appreciate the limitations are the network will by default disable ICMP Ping requests, and the IP address is Dynamic (though I can change it on demand as and when I need the files!) but beyond that, I cannot see what to do here.
Anyone got any suggestions?
The device is as follows:
Landvo L900
Dual Sim, 3G and 2G
Android 4.2.2
Device is rooted
I appreciate any advice you can offer!