Since I normally use Nokia Nseries, I didn’t know about access points groups feature. I noticed this recently when playing with my Nokia Eseries device. Access Points Groups allows us to group several access points in priority order. When we connect to the Internet, it will first try to use the access point with the highest priority. If it is not available, it will try to use the second highest priority, and so on.

Why is it useful? You can create an Access Point Group that has your WiFi connection as the first priority and your network operator’s data connection as your second priority.

Go to Tools | Settings | Connection | Access point groups menu to create a new access point group.

Create Access point groups on Nokia Eseries

Then select Options | New group menu. Enter the name you want to give to your access point group in the Group name box. Then, you need to specify which access points and their priority in the Access points box.

Create Access point groups on Nokia Eseries Create Access point groups on Nokia Eseries

Now you can use this access group point as the default connection for your Web browser, for example. This way, you don’t need to change the access point each time you want to switch between WiFi and network operator’s data connection.

Selec Access point groups on Nokia Eseries

The last thing I want to say here is: it would be nice to see this feature on other S60 devices, such as Nokia Nseries.

Compatible devices: Nokia Eseries.