I have the data plan for my Palm 680 with Cingular and use it when on the road for email and occasional surfing. I have used it as a modem in Win by connecting with Blutooth but have found it to be annoying to connect. I think there is a way to connect by using the cable also but have never been able to figure it out.
What I have done is purchase a Sierra Wireless Aircard 881 and pull the SIM chip from the phone and insert into the Aircard. Works like a charm with the exception of not being able to make or take phone calls at the time. The Aircard was available on eBay for US $40.00 +/- IIRC.
Hope this helps, YMMV
David
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] Cell phone as dial-up modem
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
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