Connecting to the Internet via GPRS: Using bluetooth enabled mobile phone as a modem
This article gives you a step by step instruction on using your mobile phone as a modem to connect your laptop to the Internet via GPRS.
The description is based on Windows Vista. It is similar if you use Windows XP or Windows 2000.
- Pair your laptop and your mobile phone:
Turn on bluetooth of both your mobile phone and your laptop. Click the bluetooth icon from you laptop, press the button 'add'. The laptop will search all discoverable devices and display them in a list. Select your mobile phone from the list. Then you may choose a passkey. Enter the passkey from your mobile phone when asked. Now your mobile phone and your laptop are paired. - Configure the mobile phone as a modem for GPRS connection:
In Windows Vista, 'Start'->'Connect to'->'Set up a connection or network'->'Connect to the Internet'->'Dial up'. Enter telephone number *99#. Username and password are depending on you Network. For UK network providers, please see the settings: http://www.filesaveas.com/gprs.html. I am an Orange customer, so the username is user, password is pass. - Important: set up "Extra initialization commands":
Go to 'control panel', switch to 'classic view'. select 'phone and modem options'. Please note, in this screen, you must input an area code, otherwise the next screen won't appear! In the next screen, select the modem, click 'properties', then click the 'advanced' tap. At the 'Extra initialization commands', enter +CGDCONT =1,"IP","apn.address", where 'apn.address' is the name of the GPRS APN that you wish to connect to. See the settings of different UK providers here: http://www.filesaveas.com/gprs.html#apn. I am an Orange customer, so I will enter +CGDCONT =1,"IP","orangeinternet". Click ok then connect!
HAVE FUN WITH GPRS!
4 comments:
hey! thanks for this, i could of spent £30 a month for GPRS on a laptop but now i use my pay as you go phone! also thanks for doing this for windows vista :D
I've just tried it, with my w910i but with a usb connection & xp. Works great thanks xx
cheers! it is really good. Thanks much. I was just wondering if you could tell me how much does it cost. As I am an orange-UK pay as you go customer as well and I am quite not sure. I used it for less than a minute and opened my gmail page on laptop, and it costed me 66 pence for that?! You might know the tariffs and one more thing please let me know if Orange have some different plans for using same! Thanks in advance. :)
that's cool information, what about the other country's in place of number *99# to give. my mobile is nokia 2630 and is enable with gprs i have bluetooth dongle for my desktop pc with XPsp3 so how can i do the setting. Other country's india
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