Orange WAP & Orange Internet?

My guess was that there was no difference between these two because I
couldn't see how Orange could easily tell whether I was wapping or
internetting, quite how they would define the crucial difference if
they wanted to, or why they would charge differenttly if they
did. However, I notice on my bill that I seem to be being charged 4
quid a megabyte for wapping, and 1.25 quid a megabyte for
internetting.

I'm using a Nokia 9500, and when I connect to the internet via GPRS,
e.g. when I'm using puTTY to login to a remote UNIX file and web
server, or to do a bit of googling, it often gives me a choice between
Orange WAP and Orange Internet to connect through. Is the difference
between WAPPing and Internetting simply which one of these I click on
to connect, even though I'm doing exactly the same thing whichever I
use?

Incidentally I'm still using an ancient ED50 contract, although I
probably now no longer use enough of its virtues to justify keeping
it.

--
Chris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

On Jan 26, 12:22 pm, Chris Malcolm <c...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> My guess was that there was no difference between these two because I
> couldn't see how Orange could easily tell whether I was wapping or
> internetting, quite how they would define the crucial difference if
> they wanted to, or why they would charge differenttly if they
> did. However, I notice on my bill that I seem to be being charged 4
> quid a megabyte for wapping, and 1.25 quid a megabyte for
> internetting.

they use different APNs orangewap and orangeinternet so Orange know
exactly which one you are using

In article <1169815829.017714.191720@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups .com>,
qaz_xdr@hotmail.com says...
>
>
> On Jan 26, 12:22 pm, Chris Malcolm <c...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > My guess was that there was no difference between these two because I
> > couldn't see how Orange could easily tell whether I was wapping or
> > internetting, quite how they would define the crucial difference if
> > they wanted to, or why they would charge differenttly if they
> > did. However, I notice on my bill that I seem to be being charged 4
> > quid a megabyte for wapping, and 1.25 quid a megabyte for
> > internetting.
>
> they use different APNs orangewap and orangeinternet so Orange know
> exactly which one you are using
>
>

Though when I was on Orange you could use the WAP APN for full internet
access. I had the old access pack which included unlimited WAP use (10Mb
fair use) and any internet use through the WAP APN was included and not
charged.

I never tried WAP access through the internet APN, that might work too.

Steve.