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Sudden Network connection problem

Suddenly, I cannot to access functions that require connection to a network.
For example, Bing will not update categories or collections.
Windows update will not connect to the network.
It suggested I check my time and date? ...which are correct.
I can access internet, send and receive email and sms, check and update weather.
Just many things that require network connections do not work.
I'm not sure when this started. I don't remember changing any network settings.
I use T-Mobile in USA
Any ideas what i am missing?

Joe_PDA said:
Suddenly, I cannot to access functions that require connection to a network.
For example, Bing will not update categories or collections.
Windows update will not connect to the network.
It suggested I check my time and date? ...which are correct.
I can access internet, send and receive email and sms, check and update weather.
Just many things that require network connections do not work.
I'm not sure when this started. I don't remember changing any network settings.
I use T-Mobile in USA
Any ideas what i am missing?
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Are you using a proxy?
Are you on the t-zones package? Maybe they are now blocking https (or SSL)?

DJG,
Good questions. When I first got my TP and put sim in, it did automatic setup to T-Mobile settings. I am on unlimited data plan. When checking settings recently, I noticed the APN was set to the WAP.voicestream.com, instead of internet2.voicestream.com. I changed that. I also noticed that This network uses a proxy server was checked, with no proxy name in the box. I tried checking then unchecking this and using it. No difference. Then I tried checking it and adding getmorespeed.voicestream.com. It seems like web browsing is a bit faster (maybe), but this didn't fix the other network access problems.
Could this be a T-Mobile problem, or a problem with my account at T-Mobile?
Do they need to reset anything?

Sense 2.5 My Location and Airave Issue

For some reason when I enable my location and my phone is connected to my Airave, it locates me in a city about an hour away. When I turn my airave off, it is able to tell the actually city I am in. Is there anyway to correct this?
I am using the stock ROM with WM6.5 which was recently released. The only modifications I have done is added the Taskbar and Co0kie home screen mod.
Thanks,

Same issue. Soon as the phone enters the building with the Airave it jumps 200 miles.

I can answer this one! I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
The Airave broadcasts signal allowing your phone to have signal in an area where Sprint signal is not normally available. It does this by receiving a request from your phone, connecting to the Airave, and then then sending the request via your broadband internet connection rather than through a Sprint tower.
The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP). ISPs often base IP addresses in a city where the company is basing operations. For example, I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, and use Comcast as my ISP. My IP address however is based out of Rockford, Illinois.
If you go to http://whatismyipaddress.com, you will see the city to which your IP address is set. The city listed at this site, I would assume, is the city you see on your phone as your current location.
As far as a fix, I don't have much in the way of an answer. If the weather application is the issue, you could always set a city, rather than using the automatic location setting.
I hope this gives you some insight as to why the problem exists.

I had this same problem with my Touch Pro 2 using one of the Mighty Roms. I can't believe I didn't even think of the AirRave as the culprit. I figured the weather location came from my GPS coordinates, not which cell tower I'm connected to. This makes sense now. However, once I updated to Mighty Roms latest Rom, I no longer have this problem and my location is correct. Maybe Time Warner NY is doing something differently now and my AirRave is reporting the correct area. Before my phone was saying my location was "Jackson"...now it says "New York".

MrMaNz said:
Before my phone was saying my location was "Jackson"...now it says "New York".
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Precisely the same has happened with me. On cooked ROM's my location is "Jackson" (NJ, I think) and on the Sprint 6.5 ROM it's New York. I'm on Comcast cable, not Time Warner. I doubt this is an issue of the ISP one uses to access the internet from the Airave's location but rather of Sprint as the ISP for the phone via the Airave - Sprint is supplying the IP address for the phone, not your personal ISP.
The likely explanation for the apparent location change, of course, is that between ROM flashes Sprint changed something that provides different geolocation data and that this has nothing to do with the ROM itself.
More interesting is the comment above about a recent cooked ROM providing correct location information. It seems as if it should be possible to hack the location feature to use GPS rather than IP geolocation.

It is not rom related you are wrong. It is all about the ip address location.

same thing for me, but dont think it has anything to do with airave, dont even know wat that is or if i even have it on, but my fone shows my current location as a small town about 20 miles away with a population of about 200 (not thousand, just 200) so dont think it has anything to do with towers, any ideas?

It is all about the ip address. If I plug in the phone to activesync I get one ip and one location. If I use the verizon data connection I get another ip and another location

It does not appear to be IP related as the website posted to check the ip shows me in Kansas... but my location on the TP2 shows Canton, OH while connected to the airave. I know that I put in a zipcode in the settings for the airave on sprint's website and even that zipcode is different than the city I get.

jobobusa said:
It does not appear to be IP related as the website posted to check the ip shows me in Kansas... but my location on the TP2 shows Canton, OH while connected to the airave. I know that I put in a zipcode in the settings for the airave on sprint's website and even that zipcode is different than the city I get.
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When you go to the same website ON YOUR PHONE does it show you as being in KS or OH?
Your phone and your computer don't have the same IP, even if your phone is connecting through your computer.

jhworley said:
I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
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The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP).
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You're quite wrong about this.
The IP for my phone is supplied by Sprint's DHCP servers when it connects via the Airave. It's not supplied by Comcast's DHCP servers at all.
At the moment, both my notebook and my phone are online. Both the wireless router to which my notebook is connected and the Airave go through the same Comcast cable modem. There is no cellular service available near my house except via my Airave.
At the moment, my notebook's public IP is 24.147.35.xxx and my phone's is 174.146.248.xxx. As you can see, they're quite different. If I switch off my cellular radio and connect the phone to my WiFi, it uses the same IP of 24.147.35.xxx as my notebook. The 24.147.35.xxx address gives a geolocation of Monson, MA even though I'm in NH. The 174.146.248.xxx gives a geolocation of Cedar Grove, NJ.
Thus, your answer is wrong on several fronts. The ISP that supplies internet connectivity to the Airave has nothing at all to do with geolocation on a phone connected through that Airave. Further, the location shown on the phone still does not match the actual geolocation that corresponds with the phone's IP address. In the real-life example before me right now, the location on the phone is 21 miles from the geolocation of the phone's IP address.
Finally, the location service on the phone does not depend entirely upon geolocation based on IP address. If I turn off my cellular radio and connect via WiFi, my phone decides that it's in Hancock, NH which is correct even though the phone's IP geolocates to a different state.
That last bit suggests that the location service on the phone is perfectly capable of using GPS if it can't use IP geolocation.

mstevens said:
You're quite wrong about this.
The IP for my phone is supplied by Sprint's DHCP servers when it connects via the Airave. It's not supplied by Comcast's DHCP servers at all.
At the moment, both my notebook and my phone are online. Both the wireless router to which my notebook is connected and the Airave go through the same Comcast cable modem. There is no cellular service available near my house except via my Airave.
At the moment, my notebook's public IP is 24.147.35.xxx and my phone's is 174.146.248.xxx. As you can see, they're quite different. If I switch off my cellular radio and connect the phone to my WiFi, it uses the same IP of 24.147.35.xxx as my notebook. The 24.147.35.xxx address gives a geolocation of Monson, MA even though I'm in NH. The 174.146.248.xxx gives a geolocation of Cedar Grove, NJ.
Thus, your answer is wrong on several fronts. The ISP that supplies internet connectivity to the Airave has nothing at all to do with geolocation on a phone connected through that Airave. Further, the location shown on the phone still does not match the actual geolocation that corresponds with the phone's IP address. In the real-life example before me right now, the location on the phone is 21 miles from the geolocation of the phone's IP address.
Finally, the location service on the phone does not depend entirely upon geolocation based on IP address. If I turn off my cellular radio and connect via WiFi, my phone decides that it's in Hancock, NH which is correct even though the phone's IP geolocates to a different state.
That last bit suggests that the location service on the phone is perfectly capable of using GPS if it can't use IP geolocation.
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Well said. BTW, Sprint has still not been able to fix this. All of my phones show Galena, IL instead of Cedar Rapids, IA (where I really am). The latest reason I got from Airave Technical Support is:
The Airave unit gets GPS data from a satellite. The location you see, is the location of the specific satellite that the Airave is connecting to.
Oh... My... God... I couldn't think of how to politely disagree; so I just flat out said that makes no sense whatsoever. The floor manager tried to tell me the same thing. :| This was after she tried to tell me the GPS was only used to facilitate connection to the network; which I agreed was possible, but pressed her to why it showed me about 100mi off if it was to be used for network connection? I also asked if this would affect my 911 use as the Airave is suppose to provide E911 data in case of emergencies; she said it doesn't use the GPS location for 911. I pointed her to the Sprint website which claimed it did; after which she started me a 'Network' ticket. ::sigh::

I'm having this same issue. I originally got my airave for my office which was out in the middle of nowhere with no sprint service. I have since moved and changed jobs. Even though I live in an area with strong coverage due to the buildings (I think) I get signal fluctuations from full to nothing and dropped calls. I set my airave back up which solved that problem but when I am home my weather still shows the location of my previous office which is 200 miles from where I am now. I have made 4 calls to airave "support" and they have been unable to fix the problem. The last 2 calls I finally hung up after they left me on hold for about 45 minutes (I guess that's their current solution). Sad that after over a year since this thread was started sprint still hasn't figured out how to change the registered location of the airave. Not only is it annoying but it worries me that should I ever have to call 911 I may have issues. IF the registered location affects E911, and I have no idea if it does or doesn't, aren't they required by law to provide reliable E911 service?

[Q] Why can I only use VOIP on some wifi networks?

I set up my Gizmo5 account for SIP calling yesterday on the wireless network provided by my Verizon Fivespot, and it worked fine. Now I'm on my home network (Verizon DSL), and when I try to use Gizmo5 on my Nexus S, I get the error "Account registration failed: (transaction terminated); will try later." Why does this happen on only my home network? Is there anything I can do to get Gizmo5 to work at home?
Device: Nexus S
OS: Gingerbread 2.3.1
Carrier: None (Verizon Fivespot)

It may be network related at your house. Possibly a router/firewall not allowing the traffic in/out. I doubt it but I suppose the provider could be blocking that type of traffic as well.

What can I do to fix it though? I already checked my router settings and the firewall isn't blocking anything.

aaronbp said:
What can I do to fix it though? I already checked my router settings and the firewall isn't blocking anything.
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It isn't only the outgoing ports that need to be open (they definitely do), but the firewall has to support NAT *correctly*. SIP requires intelligence from a firewall, opening/keeping-track of outgoing/incoming UDP ports, etc. If your router supports it, try a third-party firmware like Tomato.

I had this same problem with new ubee modem/router. It is indeed NAT, and the ubee has no option to disable it.
I ended up putting my old router on the ubee DMZ and now gizmo and sipgate work.
Anyone have suggestions on making a ubee work with voip?
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IP address changer

Hi,
exist some HOMEBREW app which can let me change the IP address ?
Somebody told me that it exist.
Thanks.

Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?

GoodDayToDie said:
Well, you can easily specify your own IP address for WiFi networks. That's built into the phone.
For the cellular network... I'm not aware of a way, though it probably does exist. I'm not sure anybody has coded it as a WP7 app, though.
Why do you need to do this? Your IP address quite probably changes every time you reboot your phone; why do you need it to be a constant value?
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For me this threat is also interested. And why would be practice to be able to put static IP address is simple, what to do when you want to connect in WIFI environment where is no DHCP.
Or let say ISP, give you STB with WLAN on which is not enabled DHCP.
Cheers.

As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.

GoodDayToDie said:
As I said, specifying your own IP address is easy on WiFi (specifically for networks without DHCP). Open the WiFi settings page, press-and-hold on a network, and select Edit. If you connect to a network that doesn't have DHCP, it should prompt you for the settings when you first connect.
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My friend, this what you are wrote is written in user manual which I am get with my optimus 7. There is also written that is procedure for connecting on hidden network is press-and-hold on any wlan net and change the name according with hidden net and I could not reach hidden net until I am receive latest fw(few days ago) and I have optimus 7 almost nine month.
In any case, what you are wrote not applies for optimus 7, maybe for some other phone apply, but not for optimus 7, at least with OPN Firmware.
Cheers.

Ah... I don't have an LG phone, so if there's some weird quirk to their WiFi drivers, I can't help you with that. Sorry. :-(

JosipoGo, have you connected your phone to Zune and done updates that way? Go to Settings=> about phone and tell us what version of OS you have.
I am thinking you may be running NoDo on your phone, as anything with Mango or above should have the ability to change IP address. Yes, your shipping firmware (if it is NoDo version) may not have this feature, and it wouldn't be on your phones manual if that is the case.
If you have never done system updates, you should be able to add this feature by preforming the Zune update (if an update is available for your phone).

Can someone who tethers their iaptop with Verizon in the US do a quick favor for me?

Curious to the verizon people who tether, can you force your phone to 3G and on your laptop/tablet go to https://whoer.net and post a screen shot of the details it displays? If you feel the need to block out your IP, that is okay, I don't need it, but what I'm mainly interested in is what is displayed under location. I was under the impression that if the 3G verizon IP won't display geo location of your IP. If a few users wouldn't mind posting a picture or reporting back what is displayed, that would be a great help!!!
Example, here's mine with T-mobile tethering.
http://imgur.com/bXuxDOb