** Reply to note from "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:56:58 -0700
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> What if anything is available to get a cell phone to act as a dial-up
> modem? OS/2 would be nice but I will settle for Win.
>
> I did this on my previous laptop with the help of Cingular. I had the
> choice of paying by the byte or just treating it like an ordinary phone
> call and just being charged minutes. I chose minutes.
>
> I had not done it for a while, had to replace the laptop, Cingular has
> become AT&T, who now tells me I can't do that any more. They now insist
> on a separate data plan which is not cost effective for occasional use.
>
> On the desktop I can get free dial-up from several ISPs. If I can get
> the OS to treat a cell phone as a modem I should be able to do it with a
> laptop.
>
> Ray
>
DOIP or injoy. I use a data plan broadband but while I still had a dialup
plan I tested it just to see if it would work. It did, sort of. Because it was
so slow (much slower than a 56K modem) my ISP often disconnected it.
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