Today I got my hands on an IPhone and predictably it has already taken over my life.
Jailbreaking was easy enough but trying to get EDGE – which is basically GPRS working with Meteor was a nightmare.
A quick search on Google revieled that loads of you are having the same problem and not getting anywhere with Meteors support team, the problem is that Meteor does not turn the GPRS option on by default with customer accounts - this is unlike o2, I put a brand new SIM card into my iphone and guess what EDGE worked perfectly straight away.
Here are the steps I followed to get EDGE working with Meteor:
1. Call Meteor support on 1905
2. Tell them that you want ISP and GPRS turned on for your account, do tell them you have an iphone, their first response will be that they don’t support the iphone – this is ok, tell them it does NOT matter because all you need is ISP activated for your account. Telling them that you have an IPhone will your support rep talk to their technical team who in my case where smart enough to know what I was looking for and will help you reach your goal faster.
3. They will turn on WAP and tell you that “GPRS is now on” or “the internet bar on your account has been lifted” – DON’T BE FOOLED! This is NOT what you want, tell them to look for an option that says ISP on their control panel and that this is what you want turned on – nothing else will work.
4. Now ask them to tell someone in their technical team to allow this request happen – my experiance was that a support rep would enable ISP but it was getting blocked from going live by their technical guys who it seems have to approve these requests manually.
5. You do NOT need to restart your iphone, go to Settings -> General -> Network -> EDGE and enter these settings APN: isp.mymeteor.ie Username: my Password: meteor (loads of posts telling that the password is: isp – this is wrong and did not work for me)
6. Be Patient, I have to wait almost 2 hours for the EDGE order to process through Meteors systems and become live. If nothing is working after 3 hours though call them back to check it the order got stopped.
The support team in Meteor don’t seem to know about the ISP setting only WAP which they think is the internet or ISP – you will have to handhold them a little through the process and tell them what exactly they need to do.
If anyone has any problems PM me and I’ll try and sort it out.
