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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I have cell phone service through Verizon, but it should work just the same with Sprint. I use a Samsung phone A640, and an mobile office kit I got at the Verizon store. All it is is a USB cable that plugs into the phone on one end and the computer on the other. I use JUNO for dial-up access. Software comes with the cable kit to let your computer reconize the phone as a modem. Just plug it in, and use your dial-up access just like you were connected to a phone line. BUT!! IT IS SLOW!!!! 14.4 with acceleration still is only 23.0 baud, about 1/3 the speed of your home line. It is OK for receiving e-mail, no pictures if possible, a little bit of internet slowly. The only problem with JUNO is that they have a lot of handshaking to you conputer when it connects, and you have to wait for it to finish. I would recommend one of the bare bones dial-ups rather than AOL or JUNO. Earthlink might be OK, I have never used them myself.
Hope this helps, my account has free nights and weekends, so I can use all the minutes I want to after 9:00 and on weekends. There is no additional charge for data service either, although I have found a few locations where the service is not supported. West Virginia in particular. Also, cell phone access is limited in the boondocks.
Hope this helps, my account has free nights and weekends, so I can use all the minutes I want to after 9:00 and on weekends. There is no additional charge for data service either, although I have found a few locations where the service is not supported. West Virginia in particular. Also, cell phone access is limited in the boondocks.
