basicly you can do it both ways. although going through media net is alot slower and you wont get any help from cingular to hook it up because technicallly you need a laptop connect package. I've also had to add a $3.99 access feature to get it to work for people. Not realy sure what it does but i tried it for a friend and it seemed allow the connection.

Also if you are going to try to do it via bluetooth good luck. I had a customer hounding me for weeks because he couldn't figure it out and reps don't make house calls!

external data and internal data i,e media net. will charge differently on your account. so the unlimited media net package will not work if you teather your device to your pc. You would need a DATA package or you will be subjected to .01c per kilo. if you connect via a data cable i have heard there are ways around it however considering what i have heard i would not attempt it. I connect my v551 to my dell axim50v pda and have a 5meg 19.99 data package. to connect via BT you need the DATA dept or as its called sometimes the blackberry dept and get the int string to enter into the pc to get it to work. hope this helps a little. 🙂

not true sorry I ahve doen it via medianet on a nokia 6230. It was slow but it worked and that was via media net and I was not charged by the kilobyte.

I do know that if you get the laptop connect, aka dataconnect, you get to use a cingular provided software as your homepage...stuff that's supposed to come with the pc card.

Yeah but its no available for Apple's and in no way in hell would I even touch a PC 🤣

Spoken like a true mac user 🤣

Haha you use Mac's? 😳

Nope...can't afford it...I know they're addictive though. I've got a home-made PC. If I had the money though I'd so get an Imac. Though I do have a Shuffle...which I've replaced with my Audiovox 5600.

Thats cool! Well, as long as the PC isnt giving you trouble I guess its okay and one day maybe you'll get that iMac. Good things come to those who wait... Im still waiting on my winning lottery ticket 😁

Well, it just started giving me troubles...I have to restart it every time I turn it on in the morning. I works fine after that. I am quite addicted to active sync though.

I'll throw my two cents into the speculation mix here: it's all about the isp. There's actually a feature in the billing system called a dataconnect ISP. It's a free feature, and I've actually added it to customer's accounts as a trouble shooting technique when they can't connect to the wireless internet. Gets them working every time. I highly suspect that this is the magic key to getting something like this to work. It's doubtful you'll be able to get a rep to add it though...let alone if you try to request it. Again, this is technically speculation amongst all others, so take it with a grain of salt.

Ok....marcus??? You do not know what the hell you are talking about. Tier II support told me SPECIFICALLY..and I quote..."To use a mobile device as a tether (wired or bluetooth), cingular states that you SHOULD be on a laptop connect plan." He also stated that he has heard of people getting it to work via media net, but cingular will not help you do it. They will tell you to sign for a laptop connect package.

You are just confirming what I said. I said that you can do it with the medianet but it is going to be slow. You will not get edge speeds that way.

Well, what's the point if you aren't getting edge??? Your a moron if you want to try surfing at regular gprs speeds....

I have only tried it with the 6230 and its internal modem does not go up to edge speeds only 28k. I want to try the 6620

Cingular helped me teather my phone to my laptop to an extent, when the lady didnt know what more to do she transferred me over to Sony Ericsson 😁 They got me workin' in a jiffy, all I had to do was download some modem scripts for my Mac from this website that was given to me by Cingular and Sony Ericsson.

I've been teathering ever since (7 months ago) and havent been charged an extra cent 😁

HeroPsychoDreamer said:
Cingular helped me teather my phone to my laptop to an extent, when the lady didnt know what more to do she transferred me over to Sony Ericsson 😁 They got me workin' in a jiffy, all I had to do was download some modem scripts for my Mac from this website that was given to me by Cingular and Sony Ericsson.

I've been teathering ever since (7 months ago) and havent been charged an extra cent 😁

You guys and gals are so SCREWED that you feel like you bend over and taken the hard way.

Cingular is now enforcing and adapting to charge customers for tethering, see that policy was always there,just not really enforced,now they saw how legacy got charged up the butt and paid for i...
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Okay, I'll post here in 6 months and tell you how screwed I didnt get 🤣

And do you feel more like a man using caps? hahaha 🤣

HeroPsychoDreamer said:
Okay, I'll post here in 6 months and tell you how screwed I didnt get 🤣

And do you feel more like a man using caps? hahaha 🤣

No i feel like a man cuz i'm rep forblue/orange and we just had the training on it, and how to handle the escalation

Okay. 🙂

HeroPsychoDreamer said:
Okay. 🙂

Thatsa right, we just got 2 hour training on it.The policy is this and your info advised oif that, unfortunatley, our systems may not have noticed, but given the info, you will be liable, however we do these plans for this or this 😈 😈 😈 😈

austin316 said:
You guys and gals are so SCREWED that you feel like you bend over and taken the hard way.

Cingular is now enforcing and adapting to charge customers for tethering, see that policy was always there,just not really enforced,now they saw how legacy got charged up the butt and paid for it, they are doing the same thing and and will be enforcing it, and you can't say i was not charged in the past- its not fair, cuz the policy and protocals wer always there,just now being enforced and you get NO adjustments, you are so SCREWED!!!!!

Don't be surprised if austin is right. T-Mobile cust's used to be able to switch sim cards from a handset to a PDA device or use a handset as a modem with only th...
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