Thread: Does the n900 work well with T-mobile Prepaid
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teddybw is offline teddybw
2009-12-30 , 06:58
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
@bunanson

Sorry, by prepaid, I meant Pay as You Go. I'll amend my prior post.

However, around August, T-Mobile closed port 80 (used for Internet access), effectively barring all the Iphone users from the Sidekick plan. But, it is possible to use a proxy that uses a different port to forward Internet requests and get around the blocked port. Earlier in the thread, hitec (post #6) mentioned this and gave a site to find free proxies. You can go into your Settings, Internet Connections, Advanced and add the proxy IP and port.
Thank you for your post. I am on the same boat, using SideKick for prepaid data on N900.

I tried the free proxy online, it worked but was extremely slow even if I used the first one which was supposed to be the fastest. Unfortunately I do not have access to a desktop to set up proxy at this moment, so I have to figure out another way.

The first one came to my mind was to set up a SSH tunnel with parameter D and consequently route all traffic through the SOCKS proxy on 127.0.0.1(localhost). After setting up the SOCKS proxy on the browser, I was supposed to route all the http traffic through the socks tunnel I set up using

ssh -D * username@host

where * is the local SOCKS proxy port number. I tried the 1080 (default), 143 (used by IMAP to receive email which worked fine under Sidekick), 3128 (used by the free HTTP proxy which worked fine if I set up the http proxy in TMobile Internet) and 8080 (T-Mobile HTTP proxy). Unfortunately, however, none of them worked for me to access www pages. Neither could I visit web pages even if I enabled network.proxy.socks_remote_dns on the browser.


Now that SSH did not work, another way occurred to me, namely VPN. I have access to a server using Cisco AnyConnect VPN. However, thea client installation script I downloaded to N900 kept complaining "Permission denied" even after I used "sudo gainroot". Moreover, I downloaded OpenVPN to N900, but I do not know how to find the correct configuration from the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client I successfully installed on my laptop which currently runs Ubuntu.

Any ideas? I really appreciate them.
Last edited by teddybw; 2009-12-30 at 07:05.