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OS/2 - Technical => Internet => Topic started by: melf on 2008.08.28, 00:44:25

Title: Mobile "broadband" via cellphone
Post by: melf on 2008.08.28, 00:44:25
In VOICE newsletter june 2006 Ed Durrant wrote an article on connecting his eCS computer to internet via an LG 8330 cell phone. The article is here http://www2.warpdoctor.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_1.html (http://www2.warpdoctor.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_1.html). Well I decided to try it out on my LG U8130 and it turned out to work. Instead of Injoy dialer (which Ed used) I tried eCSCoNet dialer coming with eComStation. Read Eds article for a more comprehensive walkthrough. Here's the steps I took:

Phone: No preparing needed for my part. You may need to download "internet settings" from your phone network provider if you haven't done before. My APN (access point name) says eg services.djuice.se .

eCS:

Put your phone into USB and it will show up in USB-dock (Programs>Utilities). Open eCSCONet and choose your connection name. Press DIAL.

As you choosed "Let dial in program prompt for password" above it will do that. And when it does you can add a "*" before "99" and a "#" afterwords in the number. Do that and the press DIAL. In a moment eCSCoNet will show your IP and you're up! (I noticed that if I disconnect I have to reboot my phone to make it work again). My speed was about 150 kb/s. I don't know if it is possible to get it higher if one can set a higher baude rate in some way. Anyway it works very well. Rates in Sweden is about 10 SEK (1 euro)/MB. So its ok to surf around a bit and check mail and so on.

When there is time I will test this on other phones in my family and try them out as well.

Title: Re: Mobile "broadband" via cellphone
Post by: melf on 2008.08.28, 22:51:09
It worked equally well with a Sony Eriksson W300i, same configuration!
Title: Re: Mobile "broadband" via cellphone
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.08.28, 23:58:05
Ooo, tempting me to use my Sammy to try this out. Unfortunately, I have data disabled for my line so I could not connect.