Connected to GPRS through XDA MINI S?

[robbiebrown34]

Hi all,

i have recently bought a laptop and as i am away alot, it would be helpful for me to connect to the internet through my phone. e.g. use my phone as a modem. However i cannot find any documentation on how to do this?
Can anyone tell me if this is possible, and how? I have tried through activesync but no luck.

If you could let me know that would be brilliant!

Thanks

[jamiemckee]

Yeah its possible... just finished setting it up on mine :D This site helps:

http://www.filesaveas.com/gprsconnect.html

But i'll walk you through cos it took me a while to get it to work...

Firstly, are you on pay monthly or pay as you go?

There should be a program on you're XDA called "Modem Link" that is used for this. You can do it either over USB or infrared, though i recommend USB cos its much faster :)

Open this program and choose usb, then pick the Access Point you use to connect to GPRS normally on youre phone (check in the connection settings to see which AP corresponds to which settings if you need to) then press activate.

Now connect your phone to the laptop with the usb cable, and the new hardware wizard will pop up. Allow it to search the internet (you need a connection) and it'll install it automatically for you.


Then, On the PC, go to the Networking section of the Control Panel (Start > Settings > Control panel > Network)

Select "Make new connection" (this should start a setup wizard)

Choose "Dial up to Internet"

Choose the "connect via a modem" option

Enter the telephone number to dial as *99# (No area code, and turn off dialing rules)

Username for Pay Monthly is: o2wap
and for Pay and Go is: payandgo

Password for both is: password

When complete, go to Control panel > networks, and right-click on the icon for your GPRS connection. Choose properties and set the following: Connect Using - select your modem (infrared / USB)


You need change one other thing - to do with your modem settings. Do this as follows:

Go to Start > Settings > Control panel > Modems

On the Modems tab, select your modem, and press Properties

On the Advanced tab, you need to enter string in "Extra initialization commands". This initialisation string will need to be entered as:

+CGDCONT =1,"IP","wap.o2.co.uk" (for contract)

or

+CGDCONT =1,"IP","payandgo.o2.co.uk" (for PAYG)


Note the space before the =1. obviously dont include the bit in brackets.

I found I then needed to go into internet explorer and go on Internet Options > connections tab > choose "dail when network connection not present"

and then select the GPRS connection you made earlier > press settings > enable proxy server.

use the following ip address for the proxy server:

193.113.200.195

Now, I'm not sure which port number you will need, because it says to use 9201 but that didn't work for me, i use 8080. try both and see which will lets you load up a page.

press ok and try to load a page in IE. dial you connection when asked and it should work. try google as a test.

Tell me if you run into any problems.. I have it working on my pay as you go sim.. I have no idea if it will work on pay monthly, you might need to try using some of these settings:

http://www.filesaveas.com/gprs.html

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