Ok folks, I've seen lots of posts about how to share your home or office internet (from a PC) with a pocket pc or handhelp via bluetooth - but nothing in the reverse....
My goal: 1) Get cellular internet serivice on my laptop when out of wifi area or where I dont subscribe to wifi provider (or think its a rip)...
2) not buy additional t-mobile gprs wifi cell phone pcmcia card for my laptop...
My Equipment:
Service Provider: T-Mobile
Phone/PPC: HP Ipaq h6315 (Windows Mobile 2003, 802.11b, bluetooth, cell phone/gprs/gsm)
Laptop: HP dv1175us (XP,Centrino w/bluetooth/802.11 b/g)
The thing here is that I go on the road a lot and to remote building sites - I sell real estate and help people with financing options by providing down payment assistance,,, anyhow the point is I go go go... most of the time I'm well within cell phone coverage... I purchased the ipaq as an upgrade from the original tmobile pocket pc phone they first offered a couple years back (despite haveing a slower processor - the new one has SO many more features -like bluetooth and built-it wifi).
Since I already pay for unlimited gprs internet service (tmobile) on my h6315 ipaq pocket pc - I'd like to SHARE the internet with my laptop on those ocassions I hit a website that is not pocket IE friendly... a lot of corp sites are...
Is there a way to start (connect to tmobile gprs) interent on my phone (ipaq) and then share its internet connection with my laptop via either bluetooth or wifi?
I've tried setting up a personal lan and I guess thats just for file sharing.. is there any MS or 3rd party software to help accomplish this? Somthing like NAT32 for Pocket PC? eh?
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm just trying to avoid buying redundent products - i.e. tmobile reps told me I shoudl buy a pcmcia card and a new service plan for that card with internet on that service plan too... the problem there is that the pcmcia card is like a little cell phone - it also has 802.11 and bluetooth built-in... all things I already have on my laptop and cell phone - the only thing I dont have on my laptop is the ability to connect to the tmobile gsm/gprs network directly... and I don't like the idea of having to pay for an additional service plan just for the laptop since I'm already paying over $200/month bills for 4 phones and interent on them...
If there's a way I figured you all would know... If not - perhaps you know someone who would be willing to be PAID to program a new PPC app that would run on the mobile 2003 platform and share internet with wifi connections or bluetooth connections... THAT would be awsome... think about it... take a cellphone anywhere and have it act as a wifi hotspot router for several pc's/laptops.... sure the connections would be SLOW but the point is - whereever there's GSM/GPRS connection available - you'd have service for a meeting or at least emails...
Got any ideas?