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[brrm]

Considering a Treo 180 again.

Does anyone happen to know:
The Vodafone website lists prices for 'WAP over GPRS' for Pay As You Talk (the plan I'm on).

a) does this mean I can do Real Internet Stuff over GPRS with PAYT as well (as the Treo does this)?
b) if so, is 0.73p/KB going to add up to $LOTS for the odd ssh session/google access per day?

i.e. maybe I'd be better off going for something like their £15/month plan with £6 of "online data" and 100 anytime minutes.

It's all so complicated. :)

Update: Oh, and for those who have one, how's the keyboard?

Comments

[gagravarr.livejournal.com]

There are two GPRS gateways used by Vodafone. One is called "wap.vodafone.co.uk" (though it's a GPRS gateway, so can be called whatever the hell you want, it's not named at the IP level....) When connected to this, you can access vodafone stuff, including their wap gateway. You can't, however, get to the OSW, except via their wap gateway, which is only for wap pages

The second gateway is called "internet" (note small 'i' - GPRS gateway names are case sensitive). This one gives you a 10.* IP, but full NAT'd internet access.

When you get GPRS, you normally only get the wap access point. If you connect on a more expensive GPRS package (either GPRS Select, which needs an expensive contract, or a paid up one), you get access to the internet AP. They normally enable it for you, but if it won't work, ring them and they'll set it up

Finally, SSH doesn't use too much data, but web access really does. Consider getting a WAP browser for your PC, as the pages are way smaller