Palm Connectivity Part 8: GPRS Setting for Tungsten W

This “how to article” is an extension of the previous article, therefore it would help if you read that first before reading this article. There has been a lot of request for the GPRS setting for Tungsten W, so I wrote this article to fulfill such needs. There are minor differences between the setting for T|W and other PalmOS PDAs, therefore I believe that it would help to have everything laid out step by step in a separate article. Without further ado, here are the configuration settings;

Characteristics

Example illustrations is based on Maxis GPRS setting

1a. Palm Connection Configuration:

Tap the pull-down menu on the top right-hand corner and select System (Pic).
Tap on the Prefs icon (Pic).
Tap on the drop-down menu on the top right hand corner and select ‘Connection’ (Pic).
Click on the ‘New’ button. Fill up the required field including naming your connection, (ie MaxisGPRS) and select “Connect to: GPRS”

1b. Tap ‘Details’ and set APN to “net” for Maxis, “diginet” for Digi and “celcom.net.my” for Celcom. QoS is set to “Network Default”, Header Compression and Data Compression are both set to “off”. Once done, click “OK”.

Tap ‘OK’ again to save

2a. Palm dial-up connection configuration

Select ‘Network’ from the drop-down menu on the top right-hand corner(Pic)
Tap the menu button in the lower left corner of the graffiti area and tap ‘New’.
Rename the service to something other than the default ‘Untitled’ ie Maxis.
Enter the User Name & Password.

Digi Maxis Celcom

Username digi maxis [leave blank] or type “g”

Password digi wap [leave blank]
Select the connection that you have just created for your GPRS service at no. 1 ie “MaxisGPRS”.

2b.Tap ‘Details’ and enter further settings required by your telco.

Connection type:PPP
Query DNS: unticked
DNS: refer to the table below

DNS1 DNS2

Digi 203.92.128.131 203.92.128.132

Maxis 202.75.129.101 202.75.129.102

Celcom 203.82.64.33 203.82.64.41
IP Address:Automatic
Leave “Script” as it is.

When done, click the OK button and you can try it out already.
-Success!

Conclusion

The above settings do work. Abedib uses it everyday. We did change the DNS settings a bit to accomodate the settings of other telcos. Go ahead and try it out!