Using the N800 with Orange and O2 Pay As You Go
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The delightful N800 internet tablet connects to the internet over Wi-Fi or by Bluetooth through a mobile phone, but it’s not always easy to find the correct settings.
Open Control Panel, then Connectivity, then Connections, and set up a New connection. For Orange Pay As You Go, these are the settings to use:
Connection name: Orange Internet
Connection type: Packet data
Access point name: orangeinternet
Dial-up number: *99***1#
User name: (leave blank)
Password: (leave blank)
Prompt password at every login: (leave unselected)
Advanced settings: not needed
For O2 Pay As You Go, use these settings:
Connection name: O2 Payandgo
Connection type: Packet data
Access point name: payandgo.o2.co.uk
Dial-up number: *99***1#
User name: payandgo
Password: password
Prompt password at every login: (leave unselected)
Advanced settings: On the Proxies tab, click "Use proxy". Enter 193.113.200.195 and port 8080 for both the HTTP and HTTPS proxies.
O2 won’t work without the proxy setting, which is unfortunate because the proxy degrades Gmail’s usability.
On a standard O2 or Orange Pay As You Go tariff, costs will be very high (£3 or £4 per megabyte). For Orange, you can buy a daily internet bundle (40MB for £1). Buy the first one by calling 450; after that you can buy it with a text message. For O2, buy the monthly Web bolt-on (200MB for £7.50).
Both of these bundles seem to permit handheld internet browsing, but not the use of the phone as a modem to connect a laptop. The staff at my local O2 shop thought the N800 was OK, as did the staff at my local Orange shop (although they pointed me towards an old tariff that is no longer available). Neither of these bundles permits streaming video, web servers, etc.