CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS
CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS This is designed to explain the basic approach to using your cell phone with your computer to connect to the internet. It is not intended to be an in depth coverage of t...
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hi
this does get complicated real fast-doesn't it. drove me nuts for the longest time. like you i have cingular nation but i think where the confusion comes in is weather you plan to use their service (big bucks) or you have a dial up you can use(just min used). i ended up getting a modem capible phone(nokia 6200) the data cable and then d/l(free) the nokia suite software. i have sbc dsl which also gives you dial up access so i use that. you'll end up calling cingular to get the gprs access point-hopefully who you get on the phone will know what that is-took me a few ppl to get it(write it down and keep-just in case) you'll have to enter it into your phone and make sure gprs(atleast on my fone) is turned on, install the software and fill in the blanks. should be fairly straight forward. note of caution-if you have more than 1 usb-remember which one you use as it will look there and make sure you aren't running nokia suite or have it open when you try to connect. takes a bit of fiddling around but it does work. don't expect to break any speed records but for email and simple stuff works fine. i use mainly for on line banking and email and it does ok. the thing i can't figure out-99% of all laptops have built in modems-why can't they make a fone to use as a phone and use the built in modem-then all you'd need is a $1 phone cable
this does get complicated real fast-doesn't it. drove me nuts for the longest time. like you i have cingular nation but i think where the confusion comes in is weather you plan to use their service (big bucks) or you have a dial up you can use(just min used). i ended up getting a modem capible phone(nokia 6200) the data cable and then d/l(free) the nokia suite software. i have sbc dsl which also gives you dial up access so i use that. you'll end up calling cingular to get the gprs access point-hopefully who you get on the phone will know what that is-took me a few ppl to get it(write it down and keep-just in case) you'll have to enter it into your phone and make sure gprs(atleast on my fone) is turned on, install the software and fill in the blanks. should be fairly straight forward. note of caution-if you have more than 1 usb-remember which one you use as it will look there and make sure you aren't running nokia suite or have it open when you try to connect. takes a bit of fiddling around but it does work. don't expect to break any speed records but for email and simple stuff works fine. i use mainly for on line banking and email and it does ok. the thing i can't figure out-99% of all laptops have built in modems-why can't they make a fone to use as a phone and use the built in modem-then all you'd need is a $1 phone cable
