I know there have been many T-Mobile internet plan/APN threads but I haven't seen anyone with this experience:

I have the $10 internet plan. T-Mobile has my N900's IMEI from when I signed up. Everything works on internet2.voicestream.com APN but it's rather slow and DNS lookups take for-ev-er.

I can connect to epc.tmobile.com APN and get an IP (which I could not when I had no data plan). But nothing works except for DNS lookups and MfE. WWW does not work*, SSH does not work, Gmail IMAP does not work. Has anyone seen that before?

*I can access wap.myvoicestream.com on EPC, but only the text loads, not the images.

According to info on T-Mobile's site, everyone should use epc.tmobile.com for everything. Info online is varied and inconsistent. Everyone has different plans and grandfather this and that, it seems no 2 people have the same experience with T-Mobile internet plans.