Differences (speed, price) between the T-mobile APN settings

[StangGT909]

I've read over the past few months that people have had various success with multiple APN settings including:

internet2.voicestream.com
internet3.voicestream.com
wap.voicestream.com
epc.tmobile.com

I personally got it to work epc.tmobile.com

I understand that t-mobile sells different internet packages including:

The old T-zones ($5.95)
Web2go ($9.95 or $19.95 with text)
Blackberry ($19.95 - #34.99)
Smartphone ($24.99 - $34.99)
G1 Plan

Has anyone figured out if the different APN settings correlate to a specific internet package? I'm thinking they should but every page I read people seem to suggest a trial and error between the APN choices and there has to be some logic behind it. Such as, T-zones could possibly be the wap. one because it was intended for wap phones like a RAZR.

Second, if anyone has had success with multiple APN settings, did you run a speed test? Are they similar or has anyone proven that one of the APN choices is significantly quicker?


I'm very pleased with my T-mobile rate plan but I do think the data speed is kind of slow. If internet2.voicestream.com is quicker than wap.voicestream.com for example, and if web2go is connected to internet2, I would say it could be worth the extra couple bucks a month to upgrade.

If anyone understands the rhyme or reason to the choices/speeds, I'd love to hear it.


Thanks

 

[StangGT909]

? Does anyone understand the differences?


I keep reading there are speed differences ... I think everyone would like to know what APN on t-mobile is the quickest and what data plan is required for that to work.

 

[techage14]

I've heard that the old T-Zones hack that's $5.95 has generally slower speeds than epc.tmobile.com. I personally used hiptop.t-mobile.com for my Sidekick Data Prepaid plan when I had 2.2.1 firmware. And, epc.tmobile.com never worked for me. So, I guess it just depends.

 

[y0m0uth]

are these plans available by themselves? or can you only add them to an existing plans like "400 whenever minutes etc?"

and it they are stand alone plans do i still get free nights and weeks?