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Last night, while working at a client site, I started messing around with my Nokia E61 and my MacBook so I could get Internet access while working at the client’s office without having to jack in to their local network. My phone and laptop are both Bluetooth® enabled so I figured why not give it a shot.
I did some quick research and found that it would be extremely easy to set this up within Mac OS X. When I first paired my phone with my MacBook I remembered it asking me if i wanted to use my phone for Internet access. At the time I said no but last night I kind of changed my mind.
The first and last site I stumbled upon was Ross Barkman’s home page. This site has a number of mobile phone scripts available for use within the Internet Connect software but I was unable to get any of those to work in my situation. I used the built-in Nokia Infared script and it worked like a champ. I did use a section of Ross’ site, located here, that has a lot of information for different carriers in multiple countries for the connection settings to use when logging on to the Internet through my cell phone’s GPRS connection.
If you’re using a newer Bluetooth® enabled phone and want to set it up as a modem for your Mac laptop or other machine, I say just give it a try. Find your carrier’s information in the link provided above, or here, and go for it! I think you’ll be impressed with how easy and painless the setup is within Mac OS X.
Until next time…
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