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10:57 pm
January 3, 2009
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airmas
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So I was at the ATT Store today and the guy said that I can't use wi-fi on the epix if I do not purchase a data plan.
I've heard otherwise from people who actually used the phone. I told him that my friend uses wifi without a data package and connects to a wireless network in his house, and isn't charged a data fee for this and he said I was wrong.
1. Is he right? Did they change something so that new phones can't use wi-fi without 3G. (something that is bad since everywhere I go (on a college campus/at my house) I have wi-fi, and I don't want to pay 30 a month)
2. He was a dick. ATT people have become rather mean lately.
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2:52 pm
January 4, 2009
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cambo0019
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don't believe that fool, it seems to me that either they are trying to get money out of you or they just don't kwow what they are talking about. YES you can connect to your wireless router at home or at starbucks, etc……………..just make sure you check the box the proxy manager section.
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3:31 pm
January 4, 2009
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david
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airmas,
You can use your WiFi without a data plan on the Epix… the AT&T rep (like most AT&T reps) is clueless. I try to minimize my face time with mobile phone company reps since they all tend to be rude idiots. Sorry you had such a bad experience 
david
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8:54 pm
January 28, 2009
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mdeck
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I remember reading on AT&T's “answer center” that AT&T does not SUPPORT use of WiFi on the phone. Doesn't mean it won't work. (I think I searched for “wifi epix” to find this info — I don't feel like logging on right now to check for sure.)
That being said…. I didn't know that when I got my phone a couple months ago, so, when I could connect to my house WiFi but couldn't surf through it, I called them up and (I think) they switched something on my network profile — whatever they did, that made it work.
I just did a hard reset on my phone last night, and now it doesn't work again with my house WiFi. I think there's some setting they push from AT&T to make it work.
– mmd
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11:46 pm
January 28, 2009
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Jerramy
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It's so stupid, its… stupid. Under Settings->Connections->ProxyManager, you want to check the box that says “Do not use a proxy manager”. AT&T wants to speed up your web surfing experience by hand feeding you stripped down versions of web pages.
Except that their proxy sucks, is slower than dirt, and won't accept any connection attempts from outside their network.
I found that when I checked this box, not only could I use IE to surf via my WiFi, but my surfing via 3G cellular was faster too (even WITH all the extra web-page junk).
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11:52 am
January 29, 2009
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mdeck
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“Stupid” and “AT&T” have long been words that belong together, that's for sure….
But the “no proxy” thing does not fix my home WiFi issue (I still can't surf when on my home wireless), and in fact it breaks my 3G/AT&T Media Net browsing (had to enable proxy to get that back to working).
I tried various combinations of killing IE (through task manager) and also rebooting, and for me, without yet having called AT&T to enable WiFi (or whatever other magic it is that they do), I can only surf through 3G with proxy enabled.
– mdeck
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11:11 am
January 30, 2009
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Jerramy
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Bizzare. Mine worked fine once I checked that box, both on WiFi and 3G.
Have you tried using Opera? Some people have had better luck using that, though I think the issue came down to the Proxy checkbox affecting IE only.
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