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- 08-28-2008, 09:11 AM #1TheGistGuest
Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
internet?
I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
Can that be done?
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- 08-28-2008, 09:41 AM #2AZ NomadGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
>internet?
>I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
>What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
>Can that be done?
My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
fee!
I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )
- 08-28-2008, 09:55 AM #3TL MitchellGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
"AZ Nomad" <[email protected]> wrote
> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee.
Izzat a fact? I've been tethering a Centro since last fall with no data plan
other than Power Vision, no extra charges.
TL
- 08-28-2008, 09:56 AM #4TheGistGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
In article <[email protected]>,
AZ Nomad <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
> >internet?
> >I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
> >What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
> >Can that be done?
>
> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
> an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
> for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
> fee!
>
> I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
> a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
> I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )
hmmm, I'd be interested in the name of this application.
Thanks!
- 08-28-2008, 10:26 AM #5AZ NomadGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:55:13 -0400, TL Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>"AZ Nomad" <[email protected]> wrote
>> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
>> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee.
>Izzat a fact? I've been tethering a Centro since last fall with no data plan
>other than Power Vision, no extra charges.
Didn't work for me and when I called sprint, they said first $60/mo and
then later $50/mo.
I used to teather my samsung sph-i500 with no problem, but it never worked
w/ my centro.
I passed the knowledge to my brother who also had an sph-i500 at the time and
was also able to teather, for about 7 months and then sprint cut him off.
It may be depend on the way sprint has the accounts set up.
- 08-28-2008, 10:28 AM #6AZ NomadGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:12 -0400, TheGist <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> AZ Nomad <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
>> >internet?
>> >I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
>> >What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
>> >Can that be done?
>>
>> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
>> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
>> an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
>> for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
>> fee!
>>
>> I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
>> a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
>> I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )
>hmmm, I'd be interested in the name of this application.
>Thanks!
There's two out there right now.
I use PDAnet, but I'm also looking at one called usbmodem which might work
with linux.
If you run windows, pdanet is foolproof. I also use it via bluetooth.
- 08-28-2008, 01:23 PM #7Guest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo
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- 08-28-2008, 02:26 PM #8AZ NomadGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:53 GMT, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
>legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo
Whoopie. "only" $22/hr for my purposes. I think I'll pass on that
wonderful offer.
- 08-28-2008, 08:25 PM #9TL MitchellGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
> legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>
> Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo
The $15 plan is to add PAM to an already existing, high-buck data plan.
Whatta deal!
TL
- 08-28-2008, 09:00 PM #10AZ NomadGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:25:45 -0400, TL Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
><[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
>> legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>>
>> Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo
>The $15 plan is to add PAM to an already existing, high-buck data plan.
>Whatta deal!
>TL
Yeah. For somebody like me who uses tethering about 8 hours a year, it's
only $22 for each hour! Wow! What a deal!
- 08-29-2008, 01:05 PM #11William H. BowenGuest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
TheGist <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
>internet?
>I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
>What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
>Can that be done?
A number of regular cell phones will do this - it is called
"tethering" or, in "Sprint-speak' Phone as Modem or PAM.
Look at Sprint's web site listing for the phones - the phones that are
PAM-capable are noted as such. Most of the Motorola phones and a
number of the LGs & Samsungs will as well. Also, nearly all the
PDA/Smartphones will too (Treos, Blackberrys and the HTCs).
NOTE - most of the phones are at best capable of an EVDO Rev 0 speed -
slower by 40% than the EVDO Rev A data cards (but still a hell of a
lot faster than any GSM carrier data connection)
Regards,
Bill Bowen
Sacramento, CA
- 08-31-2008, 08:15 PM #12Roger 2008Guest
Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?
"TheGist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
> internet?
> I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
> What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
> Can that be done?
I have used 4 different ways to get the internet from a Mogul to a laptop
and 3 of those are wireless.
I have used USB with Internet Sharing, WiFi with WMWiFiRouter, BT PAN with
Intenet Sharing and I installed a program that lets me use BT DUN.
As for the BT DUN you can read more about what I use at:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...50c52d278bded2
BT DUN is my favorite because I don't have to do anything special to my
phone to use it. I just use it, but I might have to hit the hang up button
on my phone after I use it.
WIth BT PAN or USB I have to start "Internet Sharing" and then hit the
"Connect."
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