Comments on: Laptop wireless via mobile GPRS over bluetooth

By: lathamjohnp

lathamjohnp — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:02:24 +0000

3 Ireland now supports using a phone as a modem – 10GB for €20 a month. I just canned my X-Series Silver subscription (€15/month) and added the Mobile Broadband 10GB add-on – now I have data I can actually use!

Just got this working on my Nokia E65 using instructions above – thanks Sean!

I changed the baud to 460800 (why not?) and ADSLGuide reported:

Date 29/06/08 08:36:03
Speed Down 138.44 Kbps ( 0.1 Mbps )
Speed Up 51.92 Kbps ( 0.1 Mbps )
Port 8095
Server speedtest2.adslguide.org.uk

These speeds are usable, but still crappy compared to what an HSDPA connection is capable of. Would be interesting to compare speeds to 3’s USB dongle (which I don’t have).

Now trying to get this working with less CLI, using:

http://litljay.com/howtos/tether/kppp.html

I will probably now retire my Vodafone USB dongle (using the unofficial Vodafone Mobile Connect for Linux) as it’s too slow to startup and generally a bit flaky (was great under windows).

By: StormBlast

StormBlast — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:10:36 +0000

I am not sure what happend in Three network, but it is no longer possible to use mobile phone as a modem. It has been confirmed by many calls to tech support on Three, many e-mails and really many tries to make it work…

I have Nokia N810 and I am trying to make SE W910i on Three network to work as modem. I can really say that it is not possible.

By: Sean Coughlan

Sean Coughlan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:35 +0000

Hehe – It’s not *too* bad. The 3G Vodafone connection is supposed to be 384kbit. I haven’t clocked it while online yet – but it’s definitely close.

I last used it in the Bad Ass cafe Monday night – quickly whipped out the laptop and went online to book cinema tickets… It did save the day (of course I could have just rang up!)

By: dH

dH — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:45:38 +0000

The unlimited data plan sounds wonderful – the only one bad thing; the slow GPRS speed can be a real pain, if you ever used broadband before. Also the speed depends on the weather and can be chaotic; it’s like “Ripwave light” – but, of course, sometimes can save lifes also (especially highly internet addicted people’s life .