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| parth b sukhparia |
i am living in india having hutch gprs (orange in some parts of country). through infra red i am able to connect to homepage of provider but nothing else. On the other hand on nokia 7210, 3530, 6610 web viewer lets me surf all the site (not just wap) in the full form over gprs. but 7650 or laptop can't. what is the mistake? am i need to configure some proxy or missing something..? thanx | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
It's probably an issue of the GPRS APN to which you are connecting when you make the GPRS connection via that phone. Most operators have multiple GPRS APNs ... the default one is only for WAP traffic, and another one is for internet traffic. You configure the GRPS APN with the AT+CGDCONT command. An example. You can see what GPRS APNs are configured in the phone with the following command: AT+CGDCONT? You'll see a response like this if any APNs are configured: +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","wap","",0,0 +CGDCONT: 2,"IP","internet","",0,0 The first value after +CGDCONT is the CID number. The third value is the GPRS APN. When you configure a dial-up networking connection to call *99#, by default it connects to CID=1. To connect to CID=2, you would call *99***2# If the APN that you need to use is not configured on your phone, you can configure it with this command: AT+CGDCONT=2,"IP","APN.name.here" Yes, this is confusing. -bn | |||
| parth b sukhparia |
thanks. that was not confusing at all. but what i don't understand is why then webviewer application is able to surf through the phone while we can't from laptop by default. if we do not know the name of apn for internet how do we get it ?? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
You're referring to the browser application in the phone having no problem connecting to different sites? The difference is that the WAP browser in a phone connects through a special proxy (WAP gateway) to access content. Unfortunately, you can't configure a conventional web browser to connect through a WAP gateway proxy. Providers often have separate APNs for WAP traffic vs. internet traffic. And sometimes you have to pay an extra monthly fee to have access to an internet APN. Usually you'd find out the APN name from the mobile operator, or their web site. I did a quick web search, and I found references to an APN named "portalnmms", but it looks like that APN might only allow WAP access. | |||
