Explain Connections

[rokitrod]

I have an x50v and I've never completely understood the whole connections issue. I have wireless available at home and at work but it seems that any time I try to use the internet through a wireless connections I spend more time figuring how to connect than I do using the internet. Where is there a good explanations of connections including wireless and/or just connecting through the internet while docked

[David Prahl]

The connections manager has always been a mystery in the PPC community. You're not alone! :roll:

I believe there are articles online to explain it, and I'm sure if you search these forums you'll find some answers. One of the top requests for the next PPC OS (code-named "magneto") is a new connections manager.

I've got my wifi working, so I'm not even touching it! lol

[Atomb]

you might want to look at this http://wifi.aximsite.com/ seeing as you posted in the 'dell' section i'm assuming you have a dell! :)

[Menneisyys]

Unfortunately, I don't know of any online English resource that explains this stuff in plain English, including what default connections PIE use for what URL's etc. Probably the original Microsoft PPC2k2 docs that came with some PPC2k2 PDA's are the best in this respect. PPC books aren't of help either. Not even 'How To Do Everything with Your Pocket PC, 3rd Edition' (the best book on PPC's IMHO) from Frank McPherson explains this. Other PPC books are even worse in this respect.

When I wrote my 170kchar-long article on the subject (http://menneisyys.freeweb.hu/gprs) (that article covers everything that is related to any kind of Internet access from any kind of WinCE device, starting with WinCE 1.0. Beware, it's in Hungarian, not English! I may some day translate it into English.), I've dig up most old FAQ's, Windows CE handbooks especially from when PPC2k2 was introduced (it was first in PPC2k2 that the 'Work' / 'The Internet' disticntion was introduces).

As for Wi-Fi, it doesn't use the built-in connection manager - that is, you don't need (and, actually, can't) create a Wi-Fi connection in Settings/Connections/Connections; this means using Wi-Fi doesn't require the understanding of the logic behind the 'Work' / 'The Internet' distinction. The only thing Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) asks when connects to an AP whether it should deal with the connection as a Internet or a Work connection, nothing like putting your new connection into connection groups etc. This is why, BTW, [urhttp://wifi.aximsite.com/wifi-faq.html#_work]the section on Work/The Internet in the above-linked AximSite FAQ[/url] is so short.