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Tailendcharley:
 :D    Anyone out there have any experience or knowledge of hooking your mobile phone into a lap top and accessing the Internet...the idea rather appeals to

        me, pariculary when I am away in France but what would concern me is the cost...I've been reading some adverts which quote £10.00 per month for this

        facility but surely you have to pay for the phone call along with the internet facility...any advice would be appreciated...cheers



 :DSmithy :roll:

Range Rover Blues:
I can't even get the internet to work properly at home, and if I want a mobile signal here I have to go outside and stand on the bumper of Blue.  The thought of trying to access the internet via a mobile 'phone just fills me with dispair.

stewy1984:
Cant help with conneting mobile for internet, but i have had one of the usb modems that most phone companys do these days, 15quid a month and signed up for 24 months!!! no extra charges unless you go over the download limit. 2gb i think it was.

depending how long you are away in france for, i think most come with a 30day get out clause, thats what i did, just took it back when i'd had my use out of it  :lol: [-X

carbore:
YES I do it all the time.

I have a nokia N95 on T-Mobile that I use to connect to the web via blue tooth or cable depending on which one of my laptops Im using.

You generall need to install the software that comes with most phones and use the connect to internet function and it will install any phone specific drivers. You MAY need to setup your connection details with some generic username and password info that you service provider issues or look http://www.filesaveas.com/  for various connection settings.

Now this will do it over GPRS or 3G when the phone is connecting you directly to the internet with the service provider acting as the ISP. Your phone provider contract MAY say you arnt supposed to do this and some of them block surfing somehow I think 3 used to which made thier internt claims a bit crap and it was burried in the small print.  I dont have any problems with t-mob though.  The reason they do this is thay want to ring fenc thier mobile internet revenues to "partner sites" and not have you off surfing on your mobile internet on something free!

Watch how much you pay per MB etc in your package ESPECIALLY form outside uk/roaming.

You can also use most mobiles a a modem, then you need an ISP whit a phone number that you dial up to.  There will be no content restrictions on this but it will cost per min and be slow (I think 9600baud is the limit).

To be honest the wave on plug in USB things are looking so cheap with sensible contracts that unless you have a high free MB tarrif and know what you are doing its woth getting one like stewey says as its so easy! (I may get one just for the convenience)

 

Mareng:
I do it all the time with my 3 mobile PAYG phone, a tenner a month for 'fair use' which I have never succeded in exceeding, despite being online for probably 10 hours a day on average!!!

I use it for everything from forums, to youtube, to emails.

Just gotta make sure that your in a '3G' coverage area.

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