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This is all great... for sprint customers, but I dont think it helps other carriers. I have tried connecting to the server by just poking at the port and it does not respond. Seems that this IP and port are not valid or they are restricting access only from their network. so if you are on Verizon like Im this is not likely to help you much and may slow things down some (as the device will try to connect and fail). This may also account for some (probably not all) of the performance variance that people have been seeing too.

I am going to try a few more things from my phone to see if Sprint's server will respond. However I think the key is going to be finding an open server or on on your providers network. The Verizon server IP seems to be a HUGE mystery as folks on HOFO have been looking for some time without success (that I have found).