APN Changes?

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#132266 15-Oct-2013 12:47

I notice that Telecom now recommend using _only_ the "wap.telecom.co.nz" APN on Android devices and assigning the data, mms and gps protocols to it.

How does this now differ from internet.telecom.co.nz that was used previously? (Or the, I believe unproxied, direct.telecom.co.nz).

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#915357 15-Oct-2013 12:49

I tried to turn ON 'internet sharing' on my Nokia Lumia 720 yesterday which had automatically picked up the wap.telecom.co.nz off the SIM/Network and it would not work. I had to manually add another APN with internet.telecom.co.nz and internet sharing worked fine after that. Not sure why it has decided to stop working on the WAP APN.

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#915358 15-Oct-2013 12:50

wap.telecom.co.nz is the WAP Gateway APN, but you should be able to get normal internet access through that APN much like the "internet.telecom.co.nz" APN.

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#915360 15-Oct-2013 12:51

same issue with the 1020.

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#915362 15-Oct-2013 12:54

plambrechtsen: wap.telecom.co.nz is the WAP Gateway APN, but you should be able to get normal internet access through that APN much like the "internet.telecom.co.nz" APN.

But does it allow Internet Sharing?

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#916423 17-Oct-2013 07:29

Yes - internet sharing with wap.telecom.co.nz works fine. I will see if I can find a Nokia device to test with here - I suspect it's a device thing.

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#916555 17-Oct-2013 12:35

gajan: Yes - internet sharing with wap.telecom.co.nz works fine. I will see if I can find a Nokia device to test with here - I suspect it's a device thing.

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#916720 17-Oct-2013 20:33

My Samsung Galaxy s3 mini from telecom came with the wap apn set up but I know when I had a Huawei on telstraclear it came with the wap apn set up but instructions on how to set up other apn's no such instructions this time on telecom. So do I need to add more apn's to or not, so far I have not noticed any questions issue but I have not looked at web pages when on mibile data but have used apps with out issue such as twitter and Facebook.

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#916818 18-Oct-2013 07:08

You will be fine to use the standard telecom APN configured on your device (wap.telecom.co.nz). There will be no difference (speed, connectivity, etc), unless you are trying to run a specialist application - like certain VPN clients).