A while ago, I asked a sales person at a T-Mobile store if there was a plan other than T-Mobile Total Internet that would work with my phone. They said no, that was the only one since they were moving more to devices with wi-fi capabilities and they had bundled the hot-spot service in with the other web browsing. Now, that may be true, but this page had an interesting bit of information on the subject.

Basically, the idea was that T-Mobile allowed its users to connect to their mail servers via the T-Zones connection for free so, if one were to set up a proxy server on a mail port, one could sneak web traffic through it. Unfortunately, I can't seem to connect to my mail server through T-Zones. A later post gave the address of T-Mobile's proxy server (which should have been pre-configured in my opinion) 216.155.165.50:8080 (which I verified was a T-Mobile IP). So I set that up, was prompted to pay $5.99 per month for access, and was online. I still suspect there is a better way, but wouldn't be surprised if T-Mobile had closed most of the holes that might have let people out for free. Anyway, the result is that this post was typed on a very small keyboard.

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