internet access via a wireless phone ?

[Kevin Kempter]

Hi List;

I'm working at a client site which has decided to take extreme measures so they can continue to use insecure M$ products. The latest is that they have shut down virtually all external internet access outside of their intranet.

Is there a way I could use my treo phone to allow my laptop running FC3 to connect to the internet ?

[Travis Fraser]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:54 -0500, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I'm working at a client site which has decided to take extreme measures so they can continue to use insecure M$ products. The latest is that they have shut down virtually all external internet access outside of their intranet.
>
> Is there a way I could use my treo phone to allow my laptop running FC3 to connect to the internet ?

Treo 650 and bluetooth. A friend of mine connects through that with his
laptop.

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 16:14 -0500, Travis Fraser wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:54 -0500, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > Hi List;
> >
> > I'm working at a client site which has decided to take extreme measures so they can continue to use insecure M$ products. The latest is that they have shut down virtually all external internet access outside of their intranet.
> > Is there a way I could use my treo phone to allow my laptop running FC3 to connect to the internet ?
> Treo 650 and bluetooth. A friend of mine connects through that with his
> laptop.

Yeah, works great with Sprint's unlimited data service (don't abuse it
or they might make ugly noises).  Initial latency isn't the greatest but
I really HAVE seen through-puts as has as 144K Baud (2B+D speed) and
higher now in some areas with their "broadband" deployment.

IIRC...  The GSM varients (Sprint is CDMA) are not quite as snappy
(~56K) but several providers are rolling out faster cell access now.
Just that the high speed spots are, err, rather, ahhh, spotty (yeah,
spotty, that's the word for it, spotty).  :-/

Only gotcha I ran into (and it drove me NUTS for days) is that if I set
"encrypt enable" in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf I get an immediate
"connection reset by peer" when I try and bring up PPP.  Some of the
howto's on the net say to set that to enable, but it's never worked for
me.  Don't know if it's the little USB bluetooth dongle I'm using or the
Sprint firmware or what.  So, what I'm saying, is to be prepared to play
with the bluetooth settings to get it to work the first time.
> -- 
> Travis Fraser

Mike

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I'm working at a client site which has decided to take extreme measures 
> so they can continue to use insecure M$ products. The latest is that 
> they have shut down virtually all external internet access outside of 
> their intranet.

they can save some money by not purchasing internet access...
> Is there a way I could use my treo phone to allow my laptop running FC3 
> to connect to the internet ?

If your treo has bluetooth (a 650) you can use it connect your laptop to 
your cell providers databearer service. That can get pretty expensive in a 
hurry unless they have a cheap all-you-can-eat data service, tmobile's is 
basically the cheapest in the US, but they only have edge in a small 
number of markets.
>