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Nokia E series multiple acess points

Hello,
I'm thinking of purchasing a new nokia E60 or E70.
Does anyone know if it is possible to set up VOIP on the phone in such a way that it would not be neceserry to select an access point every time in SIP settings but instead make the phone try to connect to any available.

Thanks.

I bought one and am playing with this issue as well. The sip client wants you to define an access point, but there is also a function called access point groups. You can consoldiate multiple access points under a group, but I'm not getting my sip client to accept the group.

I've played with a program called hotspot finder, which locates nodes and loggs on to them, but it wants to build individual nodes for each connection.

I'd be curious about other people's solutions and other forums people may have found on the E61. This function will save me a whole bunch on cell phone minutes.

Nokia E series multiple acess points

I use the SmartRoaming client available through Tools-Catalogs-Trial applications. This acts as a connection, but it actually connects to the network that is available according to how you set priorities. If a network isnt available, it just skips to the next network.

Another benefit when using this is that connections arent terminated (as fast) if you should get bad wlan coverage for some reason..

I was trying to figure this one out as well because access point groups isn't an option in the sip settings so the way around it I found is to set up to sip accounts on the E60 and direct one to say your home lan and one to your work lan, one will always fail wherever you are but the other will log on, took some thinking about that did. the only thing it doesnt solve is the possibility of roaming onto open networks at random. any ideas any one?

has anyone actually got an e60 to register through the smartroaming app? I have contacted the smartroaming folks and they are trying it to see if it works but they suggested I use a proxy and that usually works usually works. But of course, I already have a proxy in and it still will not register. It's a shame because it seems a really good appand would solve the problem of being able to connect automatically to hotspots. If anyone has any settings that are working then please post themas I will do if I ever get it working!

Can you pbxes guys give me any idea why e60 cant register through the smart roaming service? smartroaming works with a straight connection to sipgate, it works with easypabx.com (a pbx service like yours) but will not register through pbxes.com? The guys at smartroaming have tested it with pbxes.com and couldn't get it to work either (they reccommended easypabx) please could you have a look and see why this happens because I don't want to move to easypabx because its not quite as user friendly but I think a lot of e60 owners might because it allows them to use smartroaming?

Thanks for all your help guys

hope we can sort this one because the ability to connect to hotspots automatically is an essential part of voip growth and we can do that with smartroaming, just not using pbxes.com

RE: Nokia E series multiple acess points

It should work with SmartRoaming now. Thanks for pointing this out!

Thank you so much, it does indeed work and made your service complete. I'll let Otto Know at smartroaming because he couldnt figure it out.

Thank you again for a brilliant service that just keeps on getting better

RE: Nokia E series multiple acess points

Thanks for updating Otto @ SmartRoaming!

SmartRoaming is NOT needed!

For some stupid reason, you can't use the phone's Access Point Groups for SIP calls. But I don't think you need SmartRoaming to handle multiple locations.

I created one SIP profile (under "SIP Settings") for each of my possible locations using the preferred networks (Home, Work, etc.)...it even makes this easy by letting you create a new profile using an existing profile's settings! Then under "Internet Tel. Settings" I simply added them all to my Default profile. My phone automatically registered the connection at two different locations! I haven't done extensive testing, but it appears multiple access points can be automatically handled by the phone this way...WITHOUT having to pay for SmartRoaming's service.

RE: SmartRoaming is NOT needed!

Zitat:

Originally posted by crackhead I created one SIP profile (under "SIP Settings") for each of my possible locations using the preferred networks (Home, Work, etc.)...it even makes this easy by letting you create a new profile using an existing profile's settings! Then under "Internet Tel. Settings" I simply added them all to my Default profile. My phone automatically registered the connection at two different locations! I haven't done extensive testing, but it appears multiple access points can be automatically handled by the phone this way...WITHOUT having to pay for SmartRoaming's service.

indeed I've configured it this way as well...
so i've got a pbxes@work, pbxes@home, pbxes@family1, pbxes@family2, pbxes@default, pbxes@philips, pbxes@linksys, ...

looks like you can preconfigure also all "default" ssid's available... those that use "wifiXXX" are always WEP enabled sow i don't need those

RE: Nokia E series multiple acess points

Yesterday I found a really awesome tool for the Nokia S60 devices: Psiloc Connect. It provides a virtual access point that simply connects to all your WLANs when available, otherwise GSM/3G if enabled. Fallback to GSM/3G can be automatically disabled for roaming.