Re: Ultimate back-stop instant Internet access solution

Stuart Bell <spamfritterspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK.

I'm setting up a network in a distant UK hotel next week, and have been
promised an ADSL-equipped phone line will be ready and waiting. Not sue
yet whether it'l have a router, or be just a bare phone socket. All may
be revealed.

BUT I'm getting a little concerned that it might all go pear-shaped and
that I'll arrived to find that something has been cocked-up, and nothing
works.

If, at that stage, I said 'forget it' and wanted to make instant
provision to get a PowerBook or MacBook on-line more-or-less instantly
and independently, is there a simple pay-as-you go mobile solution that
lets me plug something into one of the aforesaid laptops to give
internet access using one of the mobile networks, please?

Any suggestions? And please remember that I'm a luddite as far as
mobile phones go - what I know about them could be written on a pin
head. So, words of two syllabubs, and no acronyms, please!


What you'll need is a bluetooth mobile and, if your laptop isn't already
bluetoothed, a USB bluetooth adapter, the latter of which should be
available from any reputable computer shop for a couple of quid. I
haven't found a non mac one that doesn't yet work...

Then get over to <http://www.taniwha.org.uk/> download the folder of
GPRS scripts relating to your phone, open up said download, find the one
entitled ***** (phone) GPRS CID1 and drag that into
/System/Library/Modem Scripts

You'll then need to go into System Preferences, if it is already
running, quit system preferences and reload (it relooks up the modem
drivers then), go into the Bluetooth pane, follow the instructions to
pair up the phone, choose to use it as a modem, choose the script you've
just dropped into the modem folder, then refer to this page

<http://www.taniwha.org.uk/gprs.html>

for the username and password details for your mobile provider.

--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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