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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jflanagan wrote:
Great post.
For those that haven't tried this yet, keep in mind that you cannot recieve a phone call while your phone is being used as a modem.
Now that dedicated data cards are down to $49 to $149, it might be worth picking one up.
Also, at least verizon is slowly expanding their broadband access service (which their $149 cards are forward compatible with) and it offers 300kbps-2mbps speeds. They'll probably have phones soon that are compatible with it too. They might already. But I'd rather have a pcmcia card in my laptop for $149 than tie up my cell phone.
$80/month is a lot, but verizon (and probably other carriers) have started monitoring bandwidth and have the right to shut down your data connection if they figure out you're using the phone as a modem tethered to your PC to avoid paying the $79/mo.
Joe
Just returned from a trip to Norway. I have a GSM phone there, with service from Telenor. Nokia N70 GPRS/EDGE capable on a 3G GSM system. Make and receive voice calls while surfing the internet on my Mac, connected to the phone via Bluetooth. Someday we'll have that kind of service in the US.
