How do I tether my cell phone to use it like an air card?

[myshtern]

I have a blackjack 2 running windows mobile 6.0.

How do I tether it to a windows machine so that it works like an air card?
I need it be recognized as a windows network connection like a dial up connection would be.

[Street_Kings]

1) go to start->settings->connections->USB->select Modem->Done
2) Plug into PC via USB
3) Install drivers
4) ???
5) PROFIT!

[myshtern]

1) go to start->settings->connections->USB->select Modem->Done
2) Plug into PC via USB
3) Install drivers
4) ???
5) PROFIT!

lol, thanks :)

Seems difficult finding the samsung modem drivers but I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll find my disc.

[bd_240]

You have to use your disc to install the drivers

[Weston]

lol, thanks :)

Seems difficult finding the samsung modem drivers but I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll find my disc.

If I could find official drivers that let me tether my old Samsung A707 (aka Sync) without a tethering data plan, surely you can find something for the Blackjack 2. You should be able to get anything that came with the phone, and more, from Samsung's website. In my case, it was just Samsung's PC Studio software, which installed the CDMA driver and helped me create an Internet connection with it.

You have to use your disc to install the drivers

:rolleyes:

[myshtern]

Vista rocks my world. Once I set the phone as a modem and hooked up, windows automatically found the drivers online. Works perfectly now.

I have an unlimited data plan. Does Att have any way of knowing I'm using a laptop? I'm not going to get $2k bill, will I?

[myshtern]

I'm not going to get $2k bill, will I?
Ehh??

[Street_Kings]

I used to tether my tilt with no consequences a few months ago, but am not sure what the policy is now. I'd assume there's no additional penalty. However, I think ATT has an additional $30 tethering plan or something. I can't remember who it is, think its chris v? that works for att/cingular, should probably shoot him a PM.

[chris]

You probably can get away with it but if they do find that you are tethering without a tethering plan then yes, att can slap you with a huge bill since it is a violation of the terms and service. Ive never heard of anyone getting caught though.

[Mario]

Just keep your surfing within reason. If you are loading up bittorrents, and moving 100's/1000's of MB of data month... then of course they are gonna find out. If you're surfing the web, and checking email, moving similar data as a phone/PDA would... then they would have a SUPER tough time identifying anything differently.

*edit*

My iPhone says I've used about .5GB of sending and receiving data over their network... not sure if this is in a monthly cycle, or since I've owned it, or what..

[myshtern]

Alright, so this has been working great but I've been incurring a problem. It seems like whenever I tether my phone to my desktop, it automatically tries to switch over all traffic to the phone even though I'm connected to another network.

I just want one program to work from my phone and everything else to work on my cable connection. Is there anyway I can regulate the traffic in this case?

[john]

It's probably possible, and I could tell you how to send specific traffic to a specific interface in the unix world, but haven't a clue about windows.

[Weston-work]

When you have multiple network interfaces that provide you a route to the same place (such as the Internet), whichever one has the priority in your system's routing table is the one that will get used. Unless the "route" command in Windows is a lot more capable than it appears, there's no easy way to get a Windows machine to split the traffic between the two, or to selectively route packets for one program.

Short of involving more advanced routing capabilities, the only that thing that I can think of is to give your cable connection the priority in the routing table, and then have your one specific program bind it's outgoing connection sockets to the other interface. It's a simple function call in the code, but it's not a common thing, so that option probably isn't implemented. In that case, you'd need to host and use a local proxy that can bind to a specific source IP / interface, assuming that your program supports using a proxy.

It's been about 10 years since I've had to do something like this, so I don't know how a modern Windows OS will react. I kind of remember it mostly working on Windows 95 or 98... I think the outgoing packets always went out through one interface (whichever had priority in the routing table), but they had whichever source IP that I binded to, so I received the response packets through the desired interfaces. In other words, outgoing connections had whichever source IP I wanted to use, but the only bandwidth impact was when downloading, as there was no performance improvement for uploading or network latency. Maybe modern Windows OS'es are smarter and will actually send packets out through the interface that you bind to... I don't know.