Anyone use their mobile phone to tether to a laptop via bluetooth?

I'm thinking of activating a data plan on my phone and trying to use bluetooth to tether to the laptop as a modem. I've heard of people doing this and they say it's faster than dial-up but not blazing fast. I have no internet at my house as of now and I'm not going to pay my companies competition for crappy dialup.

 

What Phone? I had a blackjack ATT 3g.. i used to get nearly a megabit..

 

Really any phone. We don't get 3g at my home area (I live in the boonies).

 

Even edge is 100-150 kbps...I on my blackjacki used the "share internet" application that was built in.

On my iphone i use 'pdanet'

 

Did you use bluetooth to tether?

 

Do you still have your blackjack?

 

Yeah, ive got it somewhere...
And yes, use USB or WIFI

 

Anything wrong with it? Wanna sell it?

 

Dont think there is... Its ATT locked though..

 

I'm with AT&T I'll jailbreak the thing if I can. How much?

 

use pdanet. It is a one time fee of $39 for the license and you dont have to pay for the use phone as modem as long as you have some sort of data plan on your phone. Your cheapest route is with sprint because you can get the data plan for any pda for like $15 a month, then pay the $39 license fee for pdanet and you are set. You will need either a WIndows based phone, palm based, or Iphone.

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I'm with AT&T and I get the unlimited data plan for $15. What's pdanet? I thought that was something for the iphone and I'm not gonna pay the money for an iphone? Researching.......

 

PdaNet is for a BUNCH of phones

 

I'm tempting to buy an iClone and use it....lol

 

I deal with cell phones all the time and the Unlimited Data Plan probably does not include using your phone as a modem. All the carriers I deal with charge an additional $15-$50 a month more to use your phone as modem. That is why you need pdanet. It will let you use your phone as modem without your provider knowing.

 

Gotcha. I've looked on pdanet and it looks like it is for smart phones and pda's only. That correct? I have a Samsung A737 so I don't think pdanet is gonna work for it.

 

Delette, when i get home.. i will check on the blackjack for you

 

I use my g1 tethered to my pc at work. I have firefox proxied through it so I can browse without being logged by big brother. For work related stuff I use ie going through the company network.

 

if you have a blackberry and att I can show you how to do it for free.

 

My bb died. I ended up buying a iphone clone for dirt cheap so we will see how well that works.

 

Iphone data plan is 20 bucks

 

I don't need the iphone data plan. I just need the unlimited $15 stupid phone plan. I got a iclone (CECT i9) which doesn't need that iphone junk.

 

You wont be able to...


OH wait, its not an iphone?

 

...hmmm doing some research..

 

Nope not an iphone.....CECT i9 aka iClone.

Not as feature rich and fancy as iPhone but good enough for me. Does a lot of things iPhone can and has Java 2.0.

 

Yeah, looks nice im doing some research so maybe i can help you out..

 

Thanks.