Palm TREO PRO User Manual page 165

service charges by using a Wi-Fi
connection instead.
You're inside a coverage area but
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outside your wireless service provider's
EVDO or 1X coverage area. (A Wi-Fi
connection may provide faster
throughput than an EVDO or 1X data
connection.)
You want to maintain a web connection
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while talking on the phone.
Are there different types of Wi-Fi
networks?
There are two types of Wi-Fi networks:
Open networks: These networks
broadcast their name (SSID) and do not
require you to enter a password or other
settings. To learn how to connect to an
open network, see Connecting to an open
network.
Secure networks: These networks may
broadcast their name, but at the very least,
they require you to enter a password that
you get from an administrator (who may
be, for example, the librarian or the person
behind the counter at the coffee shop). You
may also have to get other network
Y O U R C O N N E C T I O N S T O T H E W E B A N D W I R E L E S S D E V I C E S
settings from the system administrator. To
learn how to connect to a secure network,
see Connecting to a secure network.
If you've already set up a connection to a
secure network and want to reconnect to
it, follow the steps in Connecting to an
open network.
Turning the Wi-Fi feature on and off
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
smartphone screen is on (see Waking up
the screen and turning it off).
To turn Wi-Fi on, press Wi-Fi
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the side of your smartphone near the
stylus slot).
To turn Wi-Fi off, press and hold
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Wi-Fi
When Wi-Fi is on, your Today screen
displays "Wi-Fi: Available. "
By default, when your screen turns off, the
TIP
Wi-Fi feature turns off to save power. Wi-Fi
does not turn back on automatically when
your screen turns back on. You can adjust the
Wi-Fi settings to keep Wi-Fi on all the time.
See Customizing Wi-Fi settings for details.
Make sure your
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