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Vodafone live settings for prepay ?

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  • 27-11-2008 9:15pm
    #1
    KStaford
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    Hi

    Trying to setup vodafone Live on my new 3g phone.

    Spent ages on vodafone.ie looking for the settings for vodafone live. Eventually rang them and after an age, they emailed me a word doc with settings for all kinds of services. They said that the following settings are what I need

    APN: isp.vodafone.ie
    Username: vodafone
    Password: vodafone

    They advised that this is charged to prepay customers at a daily once off connection fee of 99c, you can then d/l 50MB and after that its 2c per MB.

    Can any of you confirm this ?


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    Random
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    The Live APN is charged at the 99c for 50MB daily rate.

    The ISP APN is charged at 19c per MB.


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    KStaford wrote: »
    Hi

    Trying to setup vodafone Live on my new 3g phone.

    Spent ages on vodafone.ie looking for the settings for vodafone live. Eventually rang them and after an age, they emailed me a word doc with settings for all kinds of services. They said that the following settings are what I need

    APN: isp.vodafone.ie
    Username: vodafone
    Password: vodafone

    They advised that this is charged to prepay customers at a daily once off connection fee of 99c, you can then d/l 50MB and after that its 2c per MB.

    Can any of you confirm this ?

    in fact i can disconfirm it. believe it or not the APN for vodafone live is live.vodafone.com :P

    you can get the settings here:
    http://powermyphone.com/gprsmms.php

    the charging for the live APN is as follows:
    2c per KB up to 99c
    then a flat rate up to 50MB
    then back to 2c per KB

    note it's KB and not MB as you were told

    as Random says, the isp APN which is the one you were given settings for is 19c per mb


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    #4
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    yeah I was thinking; Coming home on the train tonight, i'd do a bit of browsing and check my credit balance, it was creeping down about 40-50 cent and I could not figure out why. I did ask the vodafone fella on the phone and he assured me that the ISP APN was the one I wanted but he was either ill informed or they are on the make.

    Random, can you tell me what the Live APN, Username and password are please?


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    Random
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    KStaford wrote: »
    yeah I was thinking; Coming home on the train tonight, i'd do a bit of browsing and check my credit balance, it was creeping down about 40-50 cent and I could not figure out why. I did ask the vodafone fella on the phone and he assured me that the ISP APN was the one I wanted but he was either ill informed or they are on the make.

    Random, can you tell me what the Live APN, Username and password are please?
    Here you go
    http://powermyphone.com/gprsmms.php#vodafone


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    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    I think I tried those before as in . . .

    APN:live.vodafone.com
    username:dublin
    password:dublin

    and if I remember correctly, the results were piss poor. I dont think these settings work from my home for example whereas the isp settings do. Can you shed any light ?


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    Random
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    You won't be able to use the Live APN in your phone as a modem, you will need to use ISP instead.

    If that's what you mean ?


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    KStaford wrote: »
    I think I tried those before as in . . .

    APN:live.vodafone.com
    username:dublin
    password:dublin

    and if I remember correctly, the results were piss poor. I dont think these settings work from my home for example whereas the isp settings do. Can you shed any light ?

    what were you trying to do? the live APN has a lot of things blocked like i think pop3 and some java apps can't access the net

    did you enter the proxy, 10.24.59.100:8080?


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    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    no I'm not trying to use the phone as a modem, I just want to use the browser on the phone for checking webmail etc. I'll try again in a few minutes and see what happens.


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    KStaford wrote: »
    no I'm not trying to use the phone as a modem, I just want to use the browser on the phone for checking webmail etc. I'll try again in a few minutes and see what happens.

    i know you're not. you can use pop3 on phones nowadays. what phone do you have and i might be able to tell you how to enter the settings


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    #11
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    HTC Touch HD

    I'm fine ith entering the settings, just trying now. will let u know in a few minutes


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    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    Right, so far I've tried the Live PN

    APN:live.vodafone.com
    username:dublin
    password:dublin
    proxy: 10.24.59.100:80 and I also tried 8080
    (also tried completely restarting the phone as I always do)

    I connect ok with 2-3 bar signal but the browser just continuously tries loading page (in my case google.ie) but never gets there. This is what happened me before. I'm gonna try the ISP APN now and see if that works.


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    #13
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    right ! using the ISP APN

    APN: isp.vodafone.ie
    Username: vodafone
    Password: vodafone

    It immediately worked first time, browser loads google instantly as well as other websites that I tried, etc. so can anyone shed any light ?


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    #14
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    For anyone that follows, I found a solution. Follow this post exactly and bob's your uncle.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=55893452&postcount=3


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