About six months ago I got my first personal cell phone in years. My old company had an unlimited incoming plan and a big bucket of minutes for employees. I didn’t abuse my company cell phone, just made sure they got their moneys worth. I decided to go for T-mobile with the cheapest EDGE phone they had, the Motorola V360. I asked them about Internet options, and they told me that I should just go for the T-Zones service which is $6.99/mo and had unlimited use, which I did.
I paired my cell phone to my laptop and Windows found my phone as a “Standard Bluetooth Modem”. Six months ago when all this went down, I found instructions on getting my phone to tunnel my laptop traffic for Internet access on the go. Most of these sites have gone down and are only available on Google Cache, so I decided to put the instructions on my blog (mostly in case I need them again).
First open the “Standard Bluetooth Modem” in “Device Manager/Advanced Options” there is an “Extra initialization commands”. In “Extra initialization commands” paste in the following without the single quotes ‘AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”wap.voicestream.com”‘. Now create a dial-up connection that points to the “Standard Bluetooth Modem” with the phone number of “*99#” and a blank username/password. Now click connect and viola.
This is not high speed internet by any stretch of the imagination, downloading at about 10 KB/s. It’s not that great for ssh either, but it helps big time in a pinch. I basically use it whenever I need Internet access and don’t want to pay 10+ bucks for a day pass on someones Wi-Fi Hotpsot.