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Cell Phone as modem

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by ken.bollinger

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Can anybody out there share their experience with using their cell phone as a cellular modem? I'm interested to find out if one vendor is better than another, what connections speeds are, what the pro's and con's are.

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by tintoman

Ok I have a laptop which I take out on calls with me, so if I desperately need net access to solve a problem I use my Sony Ericsson K800i phone as a modem. I connect it via USB cable but you can do it by bluetooth if you have bluetooth on your computer or a plug in device. Mostly you can also use infra red but that's very unreliable and frankly not worth the trouble.
I get about 280Kbps downstream in this way, not graet but just about good enough and anyway it depends what area you are in.
But BEWARE this is a VERY expensive way to connect to the internet!!!

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