On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:59:30 -0400, jayton420 <jayton420@alltel.net>
wrote:


>Is the phone that you are trying to use now also an Edge phone and not a
>3G phone? With the newer 3G phones, you leave the userid and password
>blank.
>
>Make sure that you have the extra initialization settings for the
>wap.cingular APN in each modem profile. Sometimes, if you plug the
>phone's data cable into a different USB port, it will show up as a
>different modem profile.
>
>I don't know much about Vista to know if there is anything OS specific
>that you have to do differently. Do you have an XP machine you could
>take or can you dual boot XP? You could also try to connect with
>Cingular Connection Manager if it is still around.

The phone is Edge, not 3G

I went back to my old XP laptop which used to work with this phone and
got a similar error. I have a suspicion that AT&T has plugged the
loophole which allowed laptops to use MediaNet. I may have to use the
$60 Data Connect service for the time I'll be traveling.

I didn't try AT&T's Communication Manager, but may do so if nothing
else looks better.

Barry