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Default 09-29-2007, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by rivviepop View Post
If you turn on WiFi and use the *Internet Browser* on the device, all your traffic is routed through blackberry.net proxies via WiFi. Yup, all of it. So what you need to do to get a more standardized, rational test is to make a Browser Bookmark as WiFi Browser or set the default Browser to WiFi - a forced WiFi bookmark does *not* proxy - then make sure to visit Free - Ip, My IP, What is my ip, Linux Man Pages from both the desktop browser and the BB browser to ensure the IPs match up. If you see the BB IP starting with 216.9.250.* then you're proxying over blackberry.net still.
Nuts. I'm getting an IP assigned to my employer, even when I force wifi. This explains why I get sporadic failures to reach a server inside my home LAN. How can I override this?


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