I’m trying out an Audiovox SMT 5600 right now (pictured below) and in this post I talked about how I got the WAP settings going and was able to surf from the phone. However this assessment was a little premature.

One of the cool things about T-Mobile was that they have an unlimited internet service (aka TZones) for only 5.99 USD, which is by far the cheapest o the market. Someone at T-Mobile must have figured that out, because back in July they did something to the access point (wap.voicestram.com) that prevented all by WAP (text only) access. This was noted on several forums that I read and there were tons of posts with people trying different settings and getting results, but I didn’t find any that worked for me. I was not about to upgrade to the 19.99 USD plan, because that seemed too much for phone internet access; no one wants to pay that much for 2×1 ” web pages.

I was just about to give up, which meant I would be giving up on the phone as well, when I found this post with the T-Mobile settings that worked for me! Bliss! So I figured I would post the settings here, just in case.

GPRS Connections:
Name: whatever
APN: wap.voicestream.com
DNS1: 216.155.165.50

Proxy Connections:
name: whatever1
Connects From: The Internet
Connects To: WAP Network
Proxy: 216.155.165.50:8080
Type: HTTP

name: whatever2
Connects From: The Internet
Connects To: WAP Network
Proxy: 216.155.165.50:9201
Type: WAP

Then you set everything to automatic and it should just work! It only took me 2.5 days to figure that out. I had almost convinced myself that I could just be okay with the Pass Through Connection (using the PC’s internet connection through USB or Bluetooth) but not quite. I had even thought about setting up a Bluetooth access point in my house so that I could stay connected to the internet as long as I was less than 30-40 feet from the computer dongle. I would have felt pretty ghetto about that though, so I’m glad the GPRS stuff came together.