Sick And Tired Of Bad Connection Settings!

[SlyDogJeff77]

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL I'M DOING WRONG!

This always happens to me! To be quite honest, I wish I understood Cingular/AT&T or even more so the WINDOWS MOBILE 5 AND 6 CONNECTION SETTINGS and HOW TO CONFIGURE THEM PROPERLY! I just don't get it! I'm a well educated and very experianced Microsoft Network and Systems administrator for a LIVING!!! and this is like STUPID for me!

someone please help me out.

I'm in New York on AT&T's network with the 8525. I am an accomplished ROM Flasher and I am on Schap's WM6 v4.30
As usual, as soon as I flash, internet explorer works and i go to configure my pop gmail and it successfully get the gmail settings. go to connect for the first time to download my mail and it fails.... i tried to installed the cab called Cingular WAP MEdiaNet MMS Settings v2 and that doesnt work. it just adds the MEdia Net as an optional connection. I used to use the wpbear thing to get the proxy remove and restore things.. still nothing! so now i have a freaking interview tomorrow and its 1 am and im still ....ing around with the damn thing and i dont have internet, mail or connectivity to anything!!!
theres ISP, WORK and MEDIA NET... what the hell are any of these things?! i need a stupid tutorial to explain the most basic freaking thing on a pocket pc phone!

frustrated is NOT the word... ready to throw the phone out my 2nd story window as far as i can is more like it!

Schap's.. great job on the new rom.. i love it as i have loved all the others.. but this stupid at&t settings is KILLING ME!

*update* its 1:30 and im still futzing with this thing.. I used the REMOVE PROGRAMS icon and uninstalled the wpbear and cingular wap settings. i got INTERNET EXPLORER BACK but i cant get mail to work. it says Error Syncronizing. and then the typical message "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change your connection settings, tap Settings."
In Network Management i have programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using: MEdia Net
Programs that automatically connecto to a private network should connect using: My ISP
I only have this problem with my gmail accounts. YES i have them set to pop online. hotmail and windows live works fine.

[tramane]

What i had to do was goto connections >> connections
Advanced tab
Selecy Networks
Click the drop down, Media net should be fine
IE if you goto edit it says wap.cingular

Now hit that drop down and goto my isp
And you have to change the APN to wap.cingular
then on the username/pass screen
username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
domain leave blank and hit OK

and VIOLA!!!
You are back in business
Its actually in ATT's forum help somwhere
EDIT: heres the link https://cingular.atgnow.com/cng/tutorials/KB71267.html

[surgex0]

same problem

the way that windows mobile organizes connections is completely ilogical -- to me anyways

i am baffled..gmail will not work, same error, been going on for months now, ever since i got my device
skype will not work, same error, "cannot connect with current settings"

everything else works..

WTF IS "My ISP" and "The Internet" and "Media Net"
why are there 3 connections for the same exact god damn thing?
Should i just delete everything except for Media net?
Then maybe it will be FORCED to use it..god

I have tried doing these steps from the above post but nothing has changed
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update: skype now works, gmail still will not work
update2: Gmail works when wifi is on, still not over 3g

What i would really like to know is why the connections are organized this way, so maybe that will lead me to the root of the problem itself

[nando-g]

What i had to do was goto connections >> connections
Advanced tab
Selecy Networks
Click the drop down, Media net should be fine
IE if you goto edit it says wap.cingular

Now hit that drop down and goto my isp
And you have to change the APN to wap.cingular
then on the username/pass screen
username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
password: CINGULAR1
domain leave blank and hit OK

and VIOLA!!!
You are back in business
Its actually in ATT's forum help somwhere
EDIT: heres the link https://cingular.atgnow.com/cng/tutorials/KB71267.html
TRAMANE, you are the bomb. thanks for the help. Didn't ask the question but you sure helped me out.

thanks again.