On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:24:39AM -0800, Chris Louden wrote:

To surf on you PC using yor phones internet connection I would
recommend connecting your phone to your PC with a USB cable. While you
could use Bluetooth to do this it will drain the phones battery
faster. UIsing USB you can possible charge your phone while using it
to connect to the internet. Its should be a simple as setting up a PPP
connection on your PC.

And have a cell carrier that doesn't think this is something that they
should charge you rediculous amounts of money for.

I was doing this for a while with my Verizon phone, basically realizing
that they only reason I was being allowed to surf with my time charged as
minutes (meaning free at night) was because my phone was so old they
couldn't tell the difference between a USB/BT connection and one from the
phone's browser.  It basically meant I couldn't upgrade phones without
being charged for "tethered mode".

So, I upgraded, to an iPhone, giving up laptop data for a decent browser
and mail client in the phone.

David


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