US Tmobile APN
 

out box, N900 was using internet2.voicestream.com for its APN. It worked fine but i've changed my APN setting to epc.tmobile.com.

Do you guys know which one would be appropriate one (faster?) to use on N900 with 3G connection?

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What differences do you notice? Maybe try a speed test and compare the two APNs..

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Best idea. Try it and let us know.

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I can't give you speed comparisons, but I can say that all the 3g devices shipped by tmobile generally use the epc APN. That seems to be what they prefer these days.

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So you can get 3g from a 9.99 plan?

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You get 3G where there is 3G. You can have the 29.99 data plan but if you dont live in the area that provides 3G, you're simple throwing your money away.

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Ok, well I want to add data for just myself on a family plan, and Im thinking the only way to bypass getting the 24.99 plan is just changing my phone on the tmobile website to the shadow or something and asking them to add me to the web2go plan which is just 9.99...But it would be pointless if there was a limit like 5GB or something, even though it says unlimited. And I couldnt get 3g. Some have said you will only get EDGE, so slightly confused.

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i dont think there is a limit to 5gb and yes you can get 3g on 9.99 plan and someone said on tzone also, if there is 3g in your area like above post stated,
i currently have 9.99 unlimited web for dumbphones, running on internet2.voicesteam.com. i am in ct my 3g speeds are between 700 and 800

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I have the grandfather data plan, $5.99 and still access the net fine. There is no 3G in my area so I dont get it here but when I went for the Thanksgiving holiday to pittsburgh, I was able to shuff the net on the Tmobile 3G net with no limit whatsoever.

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Just making sure, dont want to charged for overages or anything siilly

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I just signed up for the 9.99 plan using internet2.voicestream.com, speedtest.net reports about 1Mb down/300Kb up. It doesn't work with epc.tmobile.com so I can't test the speed with it (I get their web2go website)
As X61 stated 3G depends on the availability in your area, I had 3G for calls without the data plan.

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I have a very old t-mobile total internet VPN plan (for 19.99 and includes 100 MMS, yes, MMS, SMS I get charged for). The only APNs I can use are the epc one and internet3. If I set it to internet2 it won't connect.

Bizarre, huh? Sometimes I don't need a public IP and would be happy with private behind NAT so I would use internet2 and save an IP -- but I guess that's not allowed.

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Thanks alot guys! I just added the 9.99 plan to my account. The phone should be arriving tmw, so I should be able to test it out : )

So excited, I might have to sleep the day away, til it comes!!!

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there is a soft cap of 10 gigs on my plan. if and when i reach that, bandwidth is throttled not cut off.

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how long did it take you guys to get the internet to work? i get 3g in my area since im in chicago.. i added the smartphone plan 25$ on monday and its been almost 48 hours since it was added.. but i haven't been able to connect to epc.tmobile.com, internet2.voicestream.com, or even wap.voicestream.com

should i go and call 611 and find out whats up?

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They told me it'd take 2-48 hours after I had my plan switched from my G1 to something that would work on other phones. I had a working data connection in about 10 minutes. So might wanna call or chat online with T-Mobile.

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you should call something is not right usually takes few minutes

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Same deal. I too have a legacy plan

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Ditto. Mine was working within 5mins after i got off the phone with them.

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yeah i went ahead and called them.. guess what the idiot from before added the internet plan to my moms phone instead of mine.. which i don't get when he asked for my phone number to add it and plus my number is way different from my moms lol.
so then he switched it and i was able to connect 5mins right after.. so for 2 days i was waiting to see if i could connect.. :face palm:.

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Yes. I signed up at a local retailer (Radio Shack) and got the Even More Plus plan with a dumb phone. (The only way I could get it). I Could call out and in on N900 but no data connection. I called their support line, I was warned it would take a few hours to a couple of days, but the rep through she knew what was wrong. She asked for the IMEI number of my phone, had me take shutdown and restart the phone (and yank out the battery. She said it help speed up the process). I went to connections and selected T-Mobile and called up Slashdot on the Web app. She had fixed it while I was on the phone. That was the best level 1 support called I've ever had. And I used to work in the industry so I know the horrors of tech support that can exists with carriers.

td;dr

They probably need your N900 IMEI number to associated it with your account. Should be able to fixed it while you are on the phone. With then. Best to call them on an another line.

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FWIW I got a even more plus sim-only plan 30 minutes from a tmobile store before I got the N900 from the nokia store. They desired a imea but were able to proceed without it.

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thanks jonson, i called them and apparently the guy from the tmobile store added the internet to my moms dumbphone, instead of mine.. lol so he went ahead and switched it over

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I have $20 Unlimited TXT and Unlimited Shadow Web (this does not have any cap) working with no problems using internet2.voicestream.com

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So can the $10 unlimited plan be added to the N900 easily, settings-wise? If I call them and need to give them my IMEI, won't they force me to get on their smartphone plan?

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You can always login to your tmobile account, and just switch the phone on there and then call them. Pick the shadow, or a 'dumb phone'

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Yeah, go ahead and call them up. They'll tell you it takes 2 to 72 hours for it get connected. That's a complete bull.

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The results should be the same. Although for safety's sake, I called T-Mobile and had them send me the internet settings config file to my phone. This setup uses epc.tmobile.com and thats what i have been using. the 3G areas work well with a solid connection and high transfer rate.

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See its this kind of support from Tmobile that makes me stick with them. They ALWAYS try to help - sometimes they cant but they ALWAYS try. No just trying to get you off the phone and onto the next call.

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Have seen several people now discussing giving TMobile the IMEI of their n900. Since when has that ever been necessary? Doesn't that defeat one of the advantages of SIM cards, i.e. portability between multiple phones, etc.?

Carriers have always been able to find out the IMEI, and some will make service changes if, for example, they see the encoded model number matches one of their offered smart phones.

I've changed phones numerous times and have never been asked to provide this before.

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So is this something a new subscriber can get/do? I plan on getting the n900 but dont have it yet, so how could I go about getting this? If I understand correctly this is just a 9.99 plan and nothing else? No voice? (Wouldnt need that due to skype)

Re: US Tmobile APN - AGPS not working
 

Hi All,

I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem with T-mobile. I bought my n900 a couple of weeks ago and initially used it on AT&T. Everything worked fine (including A-GPS), but of course I was limited to EDGE speeds. So I switched to Tmobile and I'm on a voice plan with the $10 unlimited web. I'm using the internet2.voicestream.com APN and web surfing etc works fine. However, I cannot get network positioning to work. I still have the standard supl.nokia.com location server. So ever since the switch to Tmobile, it has not worked.

Is it possible they have some port blocking access to network positioning? Does anyone else have this problem?

I have tried all the other APN's but I cannot get any network connectivity with them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Well, I'm on t-mobile with the smartphone plan ($24.99) and it network positioning isn't working for me either (never worked).

So I don't know what's up.

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how do you guys figure its not working?

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from my experience if set to on it only works when you are in maps or you showing your location in availabilty status

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Standing in an open field in Central Park with full signal takes over 10 minutes to acquire a lock from cold start.

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I noticed the next day after switching to T-mobile that my gps couldn't get a fix. So today I played with it for a while trying to do all I can to get it to work. I turned off the gps and just left network positioning on and it won't get a position. I haven't tried for too long to get a proper gps fix, but assume the problem is with the a-gps since prior to the switch it would come up in seconds.

If I put a call into tmobile support are they gonna question whether I should be on the $25 vs the $10 plan? Is it possible to have a 'dumbphone' with gps? Interesting that it's not working for people on either plan. Anyone actually have it working?

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i do have it working but i never used att sim i can have maps running just with network position and it get a fix with few seconds i have unlimited web for dumbphones for 9.99 internet2.voicestream.com

if you go settings, under internet connections, you will get a pop up window, on the right side you have connections, highlight tmobile internet or whatever your connection is named for tmobile, click edit what i have is connection name and type gprs, then when i go next i got access point name internet2.voicestream.com and everything else is blank then you go next, and you have advanced click on it, proxy should not be check and ip should have auto retrieve check, and auto dns check i hope this helps .

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not trying to be smarta... gps antena is located in the area of the front camera

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Thanks amorek, I have the same settings as you have described. Could you please check your location server? I'm assuming it's supl.nokia.com.