Vodafone GPRS settings

[Glen Murphy]

I rang vodafone to enable GPRS a while ago, they said "yep, it's now on,
enjoy! goodbye!". The short of it is, they gave me no idea on how to set up
my phone (T39m) to use it.

Is there something blatantly simple I'm missing here?

[Glen Murphy]

I realise now how horribly constructed the original message is, my apologies
to those offended by such things. I meant to ask if there are any resources
on setting up a T39m for use with Vodafone's GPRS, as Vodafone doesn't seem
to provide any such thing.

"Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message
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[Glen Murphy]

I have now set up my email accounts (on my phone), but they seem to need an
APN, User ID and Password for the 'GPRS data comm' section. This is now the
bit that's confusing me, as Vodafone never gave me this information. :\

Cheers,
Glen

"[BnH]" <b...@iprimus.com.AUSTRALIA> wrote in message
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> Hi Glen,
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> What do you want to use your GPRS with ?
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> If you want to pair it with your PDA /Laptop via BT.
> - Set the Dial up to user name and password to be "a" and "a"
> - the Dial up number to be *99***x#
> [ x is the number for the VFinternet.au data comms, normally fill in
2" ]
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> If you want to set your GPRS to be able to access your email , just set
your
> email details .. and just choose "Inbox". And all your mail will come in.
>
> =bob=

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> "Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message
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[Daniel Juhn]

how about ringing them again and asking?

"Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message
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[Jeffrey]

Did they send you an SMS with the setup? If they didnt get them too.
Otherwise I can send you the setup.

Regards

Jeffrey

"Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message

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[caff]

I'm not sure if your need to activate your GPRS account first with
vodaphone.............but your can set up GPRS by going to sony
ericsson website and click on phone configurators and follow the steps
in setting up ......hope this help !!!

http://www.sonyericsson.com/au/spg.jsp?page=start

By the wway, how much does vodaphone charge for GPRS?? and at the
moment I am using the normal wap with my T68, since I'm with $44 plan,
and if I don't use over the $44 worth of call a month, those wap
charges are deducted from the $44, so I only pay $44 still........does
vodaphone GPRS service also like this or its on top of the $44 I get a
month?????? Anyone knows??

[evri]

help please,

i got connected to voda gprs today but cannot send/rec email, any ideas on
setting up a t39 to optusnet? In particular, what are the data comm settings
that i should use?

Email Options:
i'm connecting using 'my vf gprs'
dont know what the 'mailbox' option is?
email address and password are entered
i've set both smtp and pop3 as mail.optusnet.com.au

Data Comm options for 'my vf gprs':
apn=myvodafone.au
dont have a userid entered
dont have a password entered
IP address and DNS address are blank

thanks
evri

"[BnH]" <b...@iprimus.com.AUSTRALIA> wrote in message
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> Hi Glen,
>
> What do you want to use your GPRS with ?
>
> If you want to pair it with your PDA /Laptop via BT.
> - Set the Dial up to user name and password to be "a" and "a"
> - the Dial up number to be *99***x#
> [ x is the number for the VFinternet.au data comms, normally fill in
2" ]
>
> If you want to set your GPRS to be able to access your email , just set
your
> email details .. and just choose "Inbox". And all your mail will come in.
>
> =bob=
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> "Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message
> news:am8n1v$h4b$1...@otis.netspace.net.au...

[Glen Murphy]

GPRS on vodafone is 2c per kB of transfer (less if you go on a prepaid GPRS
plan) .. I'm like you, however - I'm on a $55 / month plan, but only use $5
of that. I also should use the 200 free minutes of landline calls to dial an
ISP sometime (I'm thinking it'd be perfect for my laptop on the go).

Thank you for the link - it got my GPRS WAP all set up and working .. sorta.
I think the DNS information is wrong, because apart from the 'myvodafone'
link, I can't get to any other sites or get my mail.

"caff" <caf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[S.J.R]

There are two APNs for any GPRS provider - one for WAP and one for
data.

The data APN for Voda is: vfinternet.au

No DNS
No IP

No username or password....

One very very important thing....

Vodafone are very famous for getting this mixed up:

Make sure that your sim is provisioned for GPRS data as well as WAP...
There is a difference and the best way to find out if the CS rep has
that information is to ask one specific question:

Which GPRS APNs am I provisioned for...? If they can't answer that
question ask to talk to someone who can...

One more thing.

If you are planning to use GPRS data to collect your POP3 email from
any mail client except web based, expect problems from Voda. They
don't support open relay and won't for a very long time.

So in that case you have two options - collect email on the web or use
a third party pop...

Or ditch vodafone and go with a carrier that knows wtf it is doing.

HTH

SJR

"evri" <evrik*NOSPAM*@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3d886596$0$23172$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au>...

[[BnH]]

Don't worry about all those thing.

Just go ahead to its Inbox.

You need not to tweak around w/ the Data comm setting if you got it from
Vodafone directly.

You will only need to know which Data comm the vfinternet.au resides .. as
you will need it for dialing from your PC / PDA.

=bob=

"Glen Murphy" <ab...@nospam.riot.com.au> wrote in message

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[evri]

thanks for the info,

in the meantime i created a myvodafone account and can use email via WAP (it
allows external pops as well). works well. dont know what itll cost me end
of month.

bit confused, when i receive a email notification i can read all the email
w/o creating a connection using WAP, am i really doing this without knowing
it or is the email sent by GPRS?

thanks
evri

"S.J.R" <s_...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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