gprs in US

[Seth Rothenberg]

> I do have a T-Mobile contract with their "Blackberry Addon" Service
> ($29 + $20 + some change + taxes and other crap) and GPRS works for me
> with SHR testing (full internet access: IM, email, WWW, ssh).

I am have a pay-as-you-go SIM card, and internet didn't work yet
(see below), so I called T-mobile, and I spoke to 3 different people
who could not solve this for me - 2 in sales and one tech in India.
I'm not sure he knew what I meant by "I get an IP address
and I get DNS information" ....speaking of which

> How do you know that you did receive DNS and an IP address?

because I see ppp0 with an IP address, and
I see that resolv.conf, instead of having routable
addresses like nameserver 208.67.222.222 and
nameserver 208.67.220.220
when CONNECTED, I have nameservers
on the 10 network, i.e., non-routable addresses.
exactly like D. Gassen reported

>> nameserver 10.177.0.34
>> nameserver 10.163.140.242


> When GRPS is up (and PPP is running) I have the following interface
> configured:

<snip> <snip>
Exactly what I am saying...
from the command line it looks the same,
but it appears I don't get a route to the Internet
until I pay.   And my calls found they don't want my money.


I don't want a monthly plan until it makes sense
to transition off my AT&T plan.


Other option is to see if AT&T will work with me
(which would cost $10/month).  But I don't know
if I can trust them to "support" it.



Thanks
Seth