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If you want to setup your AT&T phone as a modem you need look no further than your owner's manual. In fact page 100 reveals exactly how much information you can expect to find on this topic. None. Audiovox was kind enough to put a section in their manual about using your phone as a modem but forgot to actually put anything in it! There is however a nice blank page. Perhaps they thought they were being courteous by providing us with a place to jot down our notes.
After finding the blank page I felt a dark shadow cross my path. I suddenly had a feeling that this would be no ordinary task, but one fraught with late nights, diet cokes, and one-eyed evil glances from my girlfriend angry at the affection I'm showing my new phone. Well, my experience wasn't that bad, in fact getting it working was quite easy. Sort of.
Setting up Bluetooth was a snap. I ran down to my local Best Buy and bought a Kensington USB adapter for $35, 30 minutes later I had my first Bluetooth device connected to my laptop. What surprised me was that during the Bluetooth service detection the phone reported itself as a Dial-up Networking device! My thoughts instantly turned to what can best be described as, "holy shit that's cool". The thought of always being connected through my phone was very intriguing. This might not be all that interesting to some people but I'm coming from using a phone that's one step above using two plastic cups and some string.
No more story just facts!
- Make your phone "discoverable" through Start -> Settings -> Bluetooth -> Bluetooth -> Discoverable
- Install the Kensington USB adapter and let it auto-detect the Smartphone and its dail-up service.
- Ignore the Dial-up network that appears in Control Panel -> Network Connection -> BluetoothConnection, it won't work.
- Find the dial-up connection under \My Bluetooth Places\Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood\Audiovox SMT5600
- Open the dial-up connection and set it to dial *98#
- You're in business.
The part that made this a "sort of" was that the dial-up connection that appears in control panel would not work. I tried setting the init string as some forum posts indicated but that didn't work either. If your inclined to figure out why then your should probably start looking at posts like this one. The GPRS AT&T init string is AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","proxy". I pulled it from this ATT KB article.
BTW their support website support.attwireless.com rocks! It's a wonderful resource and no registration required just put in your cell # and it's instantly customized for your phone. Their knowlege base is also top notch, they have just about every possible thing you could want to do with your phone in there. With the exception of using DUN over Bluetooth of course.
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Posted Oct 10, 2004 @ 9:47 AM |
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ummed ali
(2/24/2006 1:55:47 AM)
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ummed ali |
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abaqawi2003@yahoo.com
(5/22/2006 1:33:39 AM)
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diar;sells i need audiovox5600bluetooth |
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Steve Root
(5/26/2006 10:13:07 AM)
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What I'd really like to do is use the dial up modem to connect to my office (over a cellular line, because GPRS would cost me a packet and calls to my office numbers are free!) proxy server. Can't figure out a way of doing that though. Any tips or suggestions greatfully received! (steve@rootskitchens.co.uk - yes, it already gets tons of spam so a little more won't hurt! www.steveroot.co.uk ) |
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John
(3/12/2008 1:08:45 AM)
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I get a message that dial up networking failed: unknown port. I tried to add a port but it won't let me. Any suggestions |
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