Lumia 1020 - Telecom APNs and Internet Sharing

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wasabi2k

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#130902 2-Oct-2013 10:35

Kia Ora,
I've been happily using my 1020 on Telecom for a couple of weeks. Today I tried to turn on Internet Sharing and was told no mobile connection was available.

Browsing/Email/Data works fine.

In Settings, Access Point there is a Telecom NZ one I can't edit.

I added another one for internet.telecom.co.nz and the MMS details from the sticky in this forum and it seems fine, I can now enable Internet Sharing.

I guess my question is - is this the right thing to do? Any idea what APN the built in Telecom NZ one uses?

Second question - what is the difference between wap.telecom.co.nz and internet.telecom.co.nz?

Cheers.

psychrn

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#916526 17-Oct-2013 11:12

So are you wanting to use your phone as a Personal hotspot which I think is internet sharing.
Im using this fine-Im with Skinny btw

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wasabi2k

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#916565 17-Oct-2013 12:58

Yeah - which works fine when you modify it to use the internet.telecom.co.nz APN, rather than wap.telecom.co.nz.

My question was what is the difference.

plambrechtsen

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#916628 17-Oct-2013 15:07

wasabi2k: Yeah - which works fine when you modify it to use the internet.telecom.co.nz APN, rather than wap.telecom.co.nz.

My question was what is the difference.

The difference between WAP and Internet is that WAP can access the WAP / MMS gateway to allow dumb phones to surf the web and send photo messages (along with other things) whereas internet, is just a direct connection to the interweb via a firewall that allows only outbound connections. So you can't receive any inbound connections when using internet unless you have initiated them yourself (kinda like nat, but not really :)).. If you need direct internet access where people out the outside can contact you use the direct.telecom.co.nz APN, but be warned if you get DDoS'ed you could end up with a large bill :)

wasabi2k

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#916650 17-Oct-2013 16:00

plambrechtsen:
wasabi2k: Yeah - which works fine when you modify it to use the internet.telecom.co.nz APN, rather than wap.telecom.co.nz.

My question was what is the difference.

The difference between WAP and Internet is that WAP can access the WAP / MMS gateway to allow dumb phones to surf the web and send photo messages (along with other things) whereas internet, is just a direct connection to the interweb via a firewall that allows only outbound connections. So you can't receive any inbound connections when using internet unless you have initiated them yourself (kinda like nat, but not really :)).. If you need direct internet access where people out the outside can contact you use the direct.telecom.co.nz APN, but be warned if you get DDoS'ed you could end up with a large bill :)

excellent - so if I change to internet.telecom.co.nz can I still send/receive MMS?

kiwidoc

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#930978 11-Nov-2013 19:03

I had the same problem.

I wonder if this is an issue for all Lumia 1020's? I called telecom about it, they got me to add the wap APN. It didn't work. Luckily found this thread while on the call to telecom. Hopefully they will get a record in there of the fix. Clearly not a lot of quality control on setting them up!

habnzrot

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#933604 13-Nov-2013 23:35

Hi, I have the same issue recently with my Lumia 920 when my internet sharing (IS) suddenly stop working and after back tracking what recent changes I made that leads to IS stop working I found that the nokia access point in the setting was the culprit. This was updated recently, and unfortunately once you open this setting the only way to undo it is to re flash 1020 rom and start from scratch. And this time around don't touch that access setting otherwise IS will not work. This might be a bug and hopefully nokia and telecom fix this in future updates.