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Ad-Hoc Wizard to Wizard Wifi Connection

Hi all,
Me and my friend both have a K-Jam and we have been trying to connect our devices together in an Ad hoc (device to device) connection. It looks liek it is posible but just wondering if anyone can shed some light.
Here is what we have done so far...
1) Open comms manager and turn on Wifi
2) in Comms manager click Settings > Wifi Settings
3) in wifi settings click Menu > Network cards
4) from the dropdown at the bottom choose only Computer-to-computer and click "Add New..." in the top of the listbox
5) Type a network name of "TestNet1" (or anything you like) and check the box that says "This is a device-to-device (ad-hoc) connection
6) choose network key tab and set data encryption to disable (just to avoid any problems when testing it out) then click "ok" at top
7) you will see this connection in the list and it will say "Unavailable", this is ok, now onto get onto the other Wizard.
8) on the other Wizard open comm manager and turn on wifi, then close the comm manager
9) Back on the first wizard tap-hold on the connection we just created and click connect
10) now wait for a little while and on the second jam it will popup a window saying "TestNet1" network connects me to: and you can choose "The Internet" or "Work" and click connect
11) you are now connected!!!!
To check they are connected, click the wifi icon at the top, and click settings, then click network cards. Both devices will show TestNet1 with Conneted written next to it.
Also click the wifi icon, choose settings and click Wireless LAN on either device and it will show:
SSID: TestNet1
Mode 802.11 Ad Hoc
plus some other information and a signal strength. Clicking the Advanced tab at the bottom will show status as connected to network with a MAC address and your devices IP address!!!
This is excellent as two Wizards are now connected together directly via Wifi!
I have one question - Does any one have any idea how you can communicate between the two? Send Data etc?
This would be excellent and i MUST be possible!!! maybe some extra software is needed to allow this? Any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers

What benefit would this have over a Bluetooth connection?

Firstly, further signal range on wifi and secondly Speed, bluetooth inherantly has a very slow transfer speed.

You'll need extra software, as windows mobile doesn't have any server functionality, what means that you can't share your files as you would do on a desktop windows box. However I don't know if such software exists

SPB GPRS Monitor - subtracts ActiveSync from my allowance!

I've installed SPB's GPRS monitor on my XDA Mini S, but it seems next to useless as it appears to include all data received by ActiveSync over USB from my monthly allowance.
Hence, it appears that I can't use it to accurately monitor only the stuff downloaded by GPRS if it's also going to include anything downloaded over USB...
Help?
Si.

This happened to me, try this, might work!
Open up the GPRS monitor program in the programs list, open tools, and select the connection tab.
Check the box that says enable connection monitoring, and select your GPRS connection, in my case vodafone live, but most prob the O2 settings for you!
Let me know if this works
jaxx

Tools > Options > Tab "Connection" > Tick "Enable connection monitoring" and in "Connection" choose only the GPRS connection.

Thanks Gents, you both gave the same advice.
In connection, I do have the 'Enable connection monitoring box' but then I have a drop down menu with the following 4 options:
Infrared Port
USB
Mobile Web
O2 Active
The first are clearly understandable
The latter is WAP
Mobile Web is GPRS
So, I click 'Enable connection monitoring' but it seems to turn in on for all 4 connection types.
Ok, I can select 'Mobile Web' from the drop down menu, but it does still include USB data in it's monitoring...
I must be doing something wrong.
If I select USB from the drop down menu, then turn off 'Enable connection monitoring', then the drop down becomes greyed out.
Help?
Si.

Use wifi if available, otherwise use 3G/GPRS?

One thing i'm totally confused and lost about, with my new Vario II, is its apparent inability to use the wifi preferentially to access the internet.
T-mobile havent been able to help so far but I will keep leaning on them. The basic question I have is that:
When connected to wifi, I know I can get access to the internet because my laptop is doing it right now. If the wifi is connected (and it works because im transferring files across file sharing), why does the GPRS dial when I fire up an internet app like ie/msn messenger?
What do I need to do to this phone to make it prefer wifi over 3g/gprs?
Also, is it just my device, or is wifi on all these dog slow? It took nearly 1.5 minutes to copy a 4 meg mp3! ~384kbps?!

Start > Settings > Network Cards > Network Adapters (Tab) > "My network card connects to:" The Inernet
That should solve your problem. To a point, anyway. For som reason, Push mail is still GPRS only.

My TyTN uses WiFi when available otherwise it automatically choses HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS to get connected to Internet. To achieve it I set my system in the following way:
Start > Settings > Network Cards > Network Adapters (Tab) > "My network card connects to:" The Inernet (as rassah stated above)
Configure your GPRS connection as My Work Network.
Under Start > Settings > Connections > Connections > Advanced > Select_Networks (Network Management tab) set both drop-down
1. "Program that automatically connect to the Internet shoud connect using" -> My Work Network
2. "Program that automatically connect to the Private Network shoud connect using " to My Work Network -> My Work Network

Ahhhh.. I've eventually solved this, I think. Even with what was suggested here, I had difficulty and the phone would not dial gprs -> it just said "cannot connect with your current settings"
It was the last line of what JohnieWalker said that got me thinking - there is a slight typo on the line but other than that, his advice led me to the solution.
For other people experiencing this difficulty, I offer the following advice:
Click Start, Settings, Connections tab. All the applets you need to use are on this screen
Use the Network Cards applet, Network Adapters tab, highlight the wireless card and tell the phone it connects to Work
-- This apparently does something different to choosing "The Internet" in that it allows file sharing etc. The word Work in this context is completely unrelated to the default connection called "My Work Connection"
Use the Wireless LAN applet to connect to your wifi network
In the Connections applet, Advanced tab, press Select Networks
Set both dropdowns to "My Work Connection"
On the tasks Tab, the display has changed to "My Work Connection" -> Choose Manage Existing Connections and add a New one via the button
Enter the details to dial your gprs. These are all over the web
You end up with a connection that is set up identically to the default T-Mobile Internet one (in my case) - for some reason the default one always dials the GPRS whether the wifi is on or not. This one I just added behaves as i expect - if the wifi is on, it uses it, if not, it dials.. Weird!

How to disable Auto data Connection (3G, Edge)

Dear ALL,
I need to know how to disable data Connection (Edge, 3G), because my device sometimes connect to Edge or 3G service automatically, I dont have any running programms that needs data connection or auto update !!!
At the same time I want my phone to connect only when recieving MMS messages !
Please advice !

Hi there,
you can install 'HD Tweak' and Disable the items in 'Data (GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA)'.

You can also try Nodata application from Modaco
=> http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/246171/new-free-utility-nodata/
Edit : Caution, Nodata stop ALL data (MMS too) so cymagnus's solution is better

nodsata can toggle mms on/off.

I cant get that HD Tweak to open, all i get is a long page full of codes and such, any suggestions?

johseph said:
I cant get that HD Tweak to open, all i get is a long page full of codes and such, any suggestions?
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Have you installed the .NET Compact Framework?

ahmadddd said:
Dear ALL,
I need to know how to disable data Connection (Edge, 3G), because my device sometimes connect to Edge or 3G service automatically, I dont have any running programms that needs data connection or auto update !!!
At the same time I want my phone to connect only when recieving MMS messages !
Please advice !
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Can you not do it manually like this? Start/Settings/Connections Tab/Connections button/Advanced tab/Select Networks button. Then in the pop up where it says "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using:
Select "MY ISP".
I think MMS will still run?

I have done it and it works, thanx alot

ahmadddd said:
I have done it and it works, thanx alot
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what have you done?

ahmad which way worked for u??, i think if u go to phone, options, band, select your network choose GSM, THAT will solve the problem

It's very easy and you don't need any tools!
Just go to Start--> Settings --> Connections --> Connections --> Advanced --> Secelct Networks and select 'My Work Network' from the dropdown menus.

after selecting "my work network," my main screen still shows the icon "E" does it mean anything?

maati said:
It's very easy and you don't need any tools!
Just go to Start--> Settings --> Connections --> Connections --> Advanced --> Secelct Networks and select 'My Work Network' from the dropdown menus.
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Having loaded Nodata and then Tweak and found it also had a 'nodata' element I then discovered the HD built in Connection settings.
Seems to work fine.
Cheers
Alan

s0ysaucechicken said:
after selecting "my work network," my main screen still shows the icon "E" does it mean anything?
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Means you have an EDGE connection.

nodata its good and works fine on my HD

Hi. I'm not shure what you wanted to do but i'm having the following problem:
In network management if I have selected "programs ...that connect to the internet should use->Mobile Internet" then it allways uses this connection, even if i'm on wifi....and that's not good for me. If i select "my work network" and i'm not connected to wifi, it doesn't go to gprs.
I don't want to manualy set Data connection off every time i'm on wifi and then turn on when i want to use gprs/3g.
How do you do it?

oz666 said:
Hi. I'm not shure what you wanted to do but i'm having the following problem:
In network management if I have selected "programs ...that connect to the internet should use->Mobile Internet" then it allways uses this connection, even if i'm on wifi....and that's not good for me. If i select "my work network" and i'm not connected to wifi, it doesn't go to gprs.
I don't want to manualy set Data connection off every time i'm on wifi and then turn on when i want to use gprs/3g.
How do you do it?
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If you select "Programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using "yourproviderGPRS" (or whatever you have got that is relevant to data connection) it should connect to the internet using WIFI when WIFI is enabled and GPRS when WIFI is off. That's how mine works anyway. If I set it to "my ISP" GPRS will not autimatically connect until I manually change the settings. Hope that makes sense.

It maybe is a poor mans solution, but whenever I travel abroad I simply switch to a copy of my active account in which I deleted the password of my dataconnection. That way i am sure it won't connect. Whenever it tries to connect it will simply ask for the pw first.

You are on an active data connection only when you see the "E" as part of the 4 bars cell phone signal icon.
Not sure ? Then just tap the title bar where you see the "E" and the grey "System Status" screen comes on. here, tap on the "E" icon here and you will see the connectivity status message that says something like "No active connections" or similar.
Basically the E means that you are on "EDGE" signal.
Hope this helps !!
Cheers !!

saintalan said:
Having loaded Nodata and then Tweak and found it also had a 'nodata' element I then discovered the HD built in Connection settings.
Seems to work fine.
Cheers
Alan
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Has anybody worked out who has the final say?
I have the Standard Built In Connections, NoData and HDTweak.
From what I can see the Built in gets overridden, i.e. with Built In set to Off using the Internet outside of a WiFi area, stills connects via the cell network.
I think adjusting the settings as suggested previously is the best route.
Alan

How do I disable auto-connect to 3G data connection?

It gets really annoying when I was using WIFI, and suddenly the signal is too weak and it automatically connects to 3G/HSDPA data connection. I am currently not on a plan with internet usage and it charges me 20cents per KB!!
Another question - when I'm using WIFI to login MSN, why does it connects to 3G data connection whenever I press the power button and go to sleep mode
e.g. when I turn it back on 3G data connection is on...
so does it use 3G to maintain my MSN connection???

delete the internet settings

when the wifi is weak it will auto connect to 3G.
install NoData to disable 3G.
http://www.4shared.com/file/66053417/ae669268/MoDaCo_NoData.html

Settings> Connections
Under "Advance Tab" go to "Select Networks"
Under Network Management
The first option "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using: "My ISP" <-- set as this
Take note this will disabled incoming/out going 3G calls. Just alter the settings around when need.

NoData ftw as posted earlier

chriswing said:
Settings> Connections
Under "Advance Tab" go to "Select Networks"
Under Network Management
The first option "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using: "My ISP" <-- set as this
Take note this will disabled incoming/out going 3G calls. Just alter the settings around when need.
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It doesn't work now if you've upgraded your rom. I think nodata is the only choice left.

Phone - Settings - "Band" (not sure of this word as I have it in french) - select GSM instead of Auto and it will only connect to Edge, not to 3G.