epc vs internet2 in LA

[geohsia]

Hi,
To Joikuspot and tethering users who have T-Mobile in the US. I know the standard message is to move to epc.tmobile.com as your APN but has anyone noticed that recently they're forcing images to proxy to:

10.165.17.[152-154]

A normal URL reference: www.domain.com/subdir/photo.jpg becomes:
http://10.165.17.152/www.domain.com/subdir/photo.jpg

This significantly slowed down my system. Video and pages comes up but I'm missing jpg's and png's. Everything else was working fine up until recently. I ended up switching back from epc.tmobile.com to internet2.voicestream.com and everything is back to normal. Just curious if anyone else has seen this problem.

When using epc in my N900 settings and also on my dialup (wired) I get the same problem with the proxied images. When I change either to internet2.voice.... and connect using said method my browser behaves normally.

BTW, in LA I can consistently get 1 to 4 Mb/s when the internet connection is good. Recently they've been doing lots of maintenance.

Is anyone else seeing the same?

George

[somedude]

this was an issue with unlocked phones when they first started to use the epc back in 07 or 08 i forgot; but i had the same issues with my n95.
just keep the internet2 why do you even want to change it to epc you will get the same speed anyway. and I think if you access through epc apn they have a way of knowing which phone you are using, that might have something to do with that maybe.

[geohsia]

this was an issue with unlocked phones when they first started to use the epc back in 07 or 08 i forgot; but i had the same issues with my n95.
just keep the internet2 why do you even want to change it to epc you will get the same speed anyway. and I think if you access through epc apn they have a way of knowing which phone you are using, that might have something to do with that maybe.

Sweet. I knew someone here would have the answer. When I first got T-Mobile 3G sucked. I could maybe get 200Kb/s and that was on a good day. I thought moving to epc would help and that's what everyone in T-Mobile tech support told me.

Recently I killed my DSL in favor of T-Mobile because I get better speed with recent 3G upgrades here in LA. I never noticed the image thing until I started using this in my laptop and Joikuspot.

But yes you're right. Speed seems to be identical so I guess I'm back to internet2. Thanks!