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Mobile Data via Bluetooth is a pile of crap
Published by Ewan on Thursday 25th January 2007, 21:59 Comments | Filed under: Devices, Mobile Data

No internet at the company apartment I’ve been staying, right?

So when I’m back from work and I am wanting to blog, work, send meaningful emails, and so on, it’s just not happening.

AHHHHHH

Hold on! I have my Nokia E61 on T-Mobile.

I got all excited.

‘Ok,’ I thought, ‘It’ll be slow, but, you know, it’ll work…’

I fire up my launch2net software and have it detect the E61. It does. It finds the T-Mobile connection, knocks up a modem driver and then the ‘connect’ button appears.

I grin.

I click connect and 10 seconds later, after opening various ports and things, there’s a mobile connection.

‘Gosh,’ I think, ‘it’s really quite fast,’ as BBC News loads up reasonably quickly. Heh.

I’m feeling proud of the technology — and myself. It’s working. It’s perhaps equivalent to a 28k modem, I reckon.

I bring up a SSH client and make a connection. Very usable. That’s a good test. I check my email and navigate to the blog…

And then it hangs.

Arse.

I reconnect.

All good. Then it hangs again.

What the?

Hang. Disconnect. Reconnect. Internet. Hang. Disconnect.

I don’t get it. I can use internet perfectly fine on my E61 — for example, I can carry on a conversation on Agile Messenger (via MSN or Gtalk) for hours. But when it comes to poncing about with Bluetooth, no deal.

At least for me.

It kept on hanging and screwing up.

Any thoughts? I tried it with the Nokia N93. Same issue on a different operator.

Does anyone actually reliably use Mobile Data via Bluetooth regularly? If so, can you tell me what equipment you’re using?

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  • Nightweb
    I'm using a Nokia 5800 as a modem (actually using it to post this post) using nothing but default buletooth software in windows XP, no special Drivers.

    First I paired them as you do normally then double clicking on the Buletooth Icon inthe system tray beside the clock I click on my phone in the list then clicked properties,

    once the new windows popped up it has two tabs, I clicked on the Services tab and it serches for the services the phone provides, then Click on Dail-Up Networking (DUN) Windows should install stuff

    Then make sure that your phone has the correct GPRS/3G setting's it's normally beside a setting asking Wether to connect "when Needed" OR "When Avaible"

    afther this you just need to start tthe new connection wizard and look for the newly added option as a modem, after that just login with the username and password for your network and it should connect and happy connection.

    Mines been runing for about 4 hours now but the battery with get eaten up suggest you charge it at this time too

    (see here for network Info)
    http://franson.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6669
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