Internet Connection Sharing

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Arne Hess

Ed, is it you or has someone taken oven your account? Don't tell me you and Bluetooth are becoming friends after years?

HA! Not quite. I still have to restart the BT service on my device or try up to 3 times to connect to my laptop for a basic BT WMDC session. I've even had to soft reset the device to get it to take and restart the BT service on my laptop. So far, have never had to reboot the laptop, but the year is still young....

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Arne Hess

Ed, is it you or has someone taken oven your account? Don't tell me you and Bluetooth are becoming friends after years?

HA! Not quite. I still have to restart the BT service on my device or try up to 3 times to connect to my laptop for a basic BT WMDC session. I've even had to soft reset the device to get it to take and restart the BT service on my laptop. So far, have never had to reboot the laptop, but the year is still young....

[rlobrecht]

I've used it a few times over USB, but I haven't been able to get it to work over bluetooth. Lately I've been using WMWiFiRouter, because I picked up a MacBook for my primary personal laptop.

BTW, I have an AT&T 8525 with the official WM6 rom.

update: I had a reason to fire up my connection, so thought I would grab a speed test. Its running pretty slow today, but then again, I am on the 21st floor of an office building (which isn't the best place for a GSM signal.) Here are the speedtest.net results


I've seen download speeds of over 1000 using this same setup.

[ddwire]

Been doing this for years wirh Sprint. Started with the Motorla Timeport in late 2000 cabled to the serial port with the wireless web at 14.4 speed. Then when they launched vision services I used a usb cable from a Sanyo 4900 at speeds faster than edge.
Then on to the Hitachi G1000. First BT was with my PPC6601 in 2004. Now i connect via BT to my Treo 700wx.

[SteveHoward999]

Ahhh - geeks. Aren't we precious? :-D

[kathleen]

I've been using Internet Sharing -- Tethering -- forever.

Both USB and Bluetooth PAN (with an Nokia internet tablet).

At dog shows, air ports, even in my classroom when the internet down.

It rocks. Especially at 3g.

[MitchellO]

I used BT PAN to connect my laptop through my BlackJack last year, and I am back to using it with my new BlackJack II. I get decent speeds, but they are less than half what I get using my SIM in my datacard.

http://www.geardiary.com/2007/05/14/...never-so-easy/



Does mean I can still receive calls whilst online though

[jadesse]

No luck with BT Pan. WMWifi Router works great!