Connecting to the Internet ?

[John Harrelson]

How to get online with your laptop and cell phone

Last summer (2005) I decided to buy a laptop computer and connect it to my cell phone so I could "cut the cord"� and be free ... free ....... free as a bird, go anywhere I wanted and still get my internet fix each day..

I could see it now .... Sitting in my canoe with fishing pole in one hand and laptop in the other ... Sitting in the fast food drive through and surfing the net..
<span class="ev_code_RED">Oh such sweet dreams man's follies does produce.</span>
Then the problems started coming up like pop-up ads on a porn site..

<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #1.</span>
My cell phone was not compatible for connecting to a laptop.
Well .... OK, I ˜ll get a new phone, after all, I've had the old phone since the 1980's.

So away I go to the cellular phone store.. Now I admit that I am sometimes TOO practical in certain situations.. Here's a classic example...

If I am going to spend money on a new phone, it would be foolish to get just another phone that will be obsolete in six months, So I tell the clerk that I want the latest, fastest, smartest, top of the line phone on the market.

I walk out with the most expensive phone made. It sings, talks, dances, plays games, emails, surfs the net, tells me the time and wakes me up with an alarm, reminds me of things like appointments, takes pictures... And only God knows what else it does..

After several long and frustrating twenty hour days of reading the instruction book and trying to understand all the things it could do and wondering why I could not get it to do those things, even though I followed the directions to the letter ...........................

I finally return to the phone store with a booming headache, blood shot eyes and a nervous tick, where I exchange it for a different phone that has the things I need but none of the things I don't.
It was also forty dollars cheaper.. That helped my headache..

<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #2.</span>
Now that I have the proper cell phone, I needed the cord to connect the laptop and phone together.
WHAT .... $40.00 !!! Are you people crazy ?!?!?!!!!

I don't want a cord long enough to reach from the computer to the telephone office, just to the cell phone.. Do you have a shorter on that cost less ?
Harummmmp.... some sales people have no sense of humor.



<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #3.</span>
At last, ..... I am now a broke but happy camper, I have a new phone, a new laptop and two foot of gold called a data cord.

I install the software CD that came with the data cord.
Faithfully following the directions precisely, I make my first attempt to get on the Internet..

I connect the phone to the laptop as per the instructions and click on my internet provider's icon like I usually do when I want to connect to the Internet.

Nothing, Nada, El Zippo ...... No dial tone. No humming, buzzing, beeping or squealing like the desktop computer does when connecting..

After five days and many, many, many hours of talking with the cell phone company's technicians, they give and I give up... They say it can't be done.. I must have a bad computer..

I yield to the modern age of miracles and resign myself to being ignorant and start thinking about what I could do to make the old desktop computer faster, smarter and portable. Maybe a Honda generator in the car trunk ? Wonder how much that will cost ?


Then with the darkness of despair slowing enveloping me in its mist, an angel appeared and .... Ok, so it was the driver of the porta-potty truck ...... and said why not get an "Air Card"�?
Huh ? Wadaheck is an air card ?

He explained, I listened, I searched, I found, I bought ... an "Air Card"�
I had to travel over a hundred miles to find a store that had the air card in stock.

I once again read the instructions and installed the air card accordingly.. So I am now ready to try going on the internet again.. I click on my internet providers icon and ....
Nothing !! ..... Nope, nothing... What was I doing wrong... ?

Surely it had to be me................... It was.

**************************************


I found out that when using an air card or cell phone with data cord connection, it worked a little different from the landline way of getting on the internet..

With a landline connection, all I had to do was click on my internet provider's icon and it took me onto the internet highway and then to my ISP's home page automatically..

But with an air card, you are taken to the internet highway and dropped off at a bus stop. And the bus is owned by the Cellular Company that controls your air card.

The bus cost me $59.99 per month to ride. But I can ride as many times and for as long as I want to. There are no limits with the $59.99 plan.

I then have to ride the cellular bus to my ISP's web site and change busses.

Now I am on my ISP's bus and can go anywhere I want to on the web. There are many different ISPs on the market... Some are free, some cost a little and some cost a lot.

Some ISPs are good to you and some are like a virus that takes over your computer and only allows you to do only what it wants you to do.. (most of you know the nAme Of the internets's Largest virus, right?)

With my ISP's bus I can send and receive emails, go to the malls, or just spend the day riding the ISP's bus up and down the internet super highway, stopping along the way as I feel like it..

This is how your Cell Phone or Air Card works when you use them to get connected to the internet.

Now..... I˜m at last a happy camper... Where˜s my fishing poles,.... Maybe I should stop off at the fast food drive through and grab a lunch....

Happy New Year everyone,
John.

[John Harrelson]

How to get online with your laptop and cell phone

Last summer (2005) I decided to buy a laptop computer and connect it to my cell phone so I could "cut the cord"� and be free ... free ....... free as a bird, go anywhere I wanted and still get my internet fix each day..

I could see it now .... Sitting in my canoe with fishing pole in one hand and laptop in the other ... Sitting in the fast food drive through and surfing the net..
<span class="ev_code_RED">Oh such sweet dreams man's follies does produce.</span>
Then the problems started coming up like pop-up ads on a porn site..

<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #1.</span>
My cell phone was not compatible for connecting to a laptop.
Well .... OK, I ˜ll get a new phone, after all, I've had the old phone since the 1980's.

So away I go to the cellular phone store.. Now I admit that I am sometimes TOO practical in certain situations.. Here's a classic example...

If I am going to spend money on a new phone, it would be foolish to get just another phone that will be obsolete in six months, So I tell the clerk that I want the latest, fastest, smartest, top of the line phone on the market.

I walk out with the most expensive phone made. It sings, talks, dances, plays games, emails, surfs the net, tells me the time and wakes me up with an alarm, reminds me of things like appointments, takes pictures... And only God knows what else it does..

After several long and frustrating twenty hour days of reading the instruction book and trying to understand all the things it could do and wondering why I could not get it to do those things, even though I followed the directions to the letter ...........................

I finally return to the phone store with a booming headache, blood shot eyes and a nervous tick, where I exchange it for a different phone that has the things I need but none of the things I don't.
It was also forty dollars cheaper.. That helped my headache..

<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #2.</span>
Now that I have the proper cell phone, I needed the cord to connect the laptop and phone together.
WHAT .... $40.00 !!! Are you people crazy ?!?!?!!!!

I don't want a cord long enough to reach from the computer to the telephone office, just to the cell phone.. Do you have a shorter on that cost less ?
Harummmmp.... some sales people have no sense of humor.



<span class="ev_code_RED">Problem #3.</span>
At last, ..... I am now a broke but happy camper, I have a new phone, a new laptop and two foot of gold called a data cord.

I install the software CD that came with the data cord.
Faithfully following the directions precisely, I make my first attempt to get on the Internet..

I connect the phone to the laptop as per the instructions and click on my internet provider's icon like I usually do when I want to connect to the Internet.

Nothing, Nada, El Zippo ...... No dial tone. No humming, buzzing, beeping or squealing like the desktop computer does when connecting..

After five days and many, many, many hours of talking with the cell phone company's technicians, they give and I give up... They say it can't be done.. I must have a bad computer..

I yield to the modern age of miracles and resign myself to being ignorant and start thinking about what I could do to make the old desktop computer faster, smarter and portable. Maybe a Honda generator in the car trunk ? Wonder how much that will cost ?


Then with the darkness of despair slowing enveloping me in its mist, an angel appeared and .... Ok, so it was the driver of the porta-potty truck ...... and said why not get an "Air Card"�?
Huh ? Wadaheck is an air card ?

He explained, I listened, I searched, I found, I bought ... an "Air Card"�
I had to travel over a hundred miles to find a store that had the air card in stock.

I once again read the instructions and installed the air card accordingly.. So I am now ready to try going on the internet again.. I click on my internet providers icon and ....
Nothing !! ..... Nope, nothing... What was I doing wrong... ?

Surely it had to be me................... It was.

**************************************


I found out that when using an air card or cell phone with data cord connection, it worked a little different from the landline way of getting on the internet..

With a landline connection, all I had to do was click on my internet provider's icon and it took me onto the internet highway and then to my ISP's home page automatically..

But with an air card, you are taken to the internet highway and dropped off at a bus stop. And the bus is owned by the Cellular Company that controls your air card.

The bus cost me $59.99 per month to ride. But I can ride as many times and for as long as I want to. There are no limits with the $59.99 plan.

I then have to ride the cellular bus to my ISP's web site and change busses.

Now I am on my ISP's bus and can go anywhere I want to on the web. There are many different ISPs on the market... Some are free, some cost a little and some cost a lot.

Some ISPs are good to you and some are like a virus that takes over your computer and only allows you to do only what it wants you to do.. (most of you know the nAme Of the internets's Largest virus, right?)

With my ISP's bus I can send and receive emails, go to the malls, or just spend the day riding the ISP's bus up and down the internet super highway, stopping along the way as I feel like it..

This is how your Cell Phone or Air Card works when you use them to get connected to the internet.

Now..... I˜m at last a happy camper... Where˜s my fishing poles,.... Maybe I should stop off at the fast food drive through and grab a lunch....

Happy New Year everyone,
John.

[Loren]

John,
That is the clearest explanation I've ever heard of those systems
Congratulations on figuring it all out
Loren

[rebelsbeach]

As a Verizon customer I ordered their aircard and it was delivered UPS....no driving on my part necessary.
Someone at one of those cellular stores owes you an apology......

[Bob&Pat]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">This was my problem:
"I have a new nokia 6102 phone and data cable CA-42 right from nokia. I would like to use the phone as a wireless modem to connect to my local ISP. I followed the instructions on Nikia website about disabling all PC suite connections and created a new dial up connection through control panel. The phone shows up under phone and modems in control panel and windows has no problem querying the modem. The phone begins dialing but then seems to disconnect immediately. Are there any special settings needed for the phone or windows XP?"

It turned out I had to add a feature (CSD) to my Cingular service. The additional charge per month is $3.99 for this service. It is slow but it will work for us on the road to use the internet.

CSD (Circuit Switch Data)
CSD allows a user to use their wireless handset as a modem for laptops, PDAs and other electronic devices via infrared ports or designated data cables. CSD also allows a user to access Wireless Internet via their wireless handset (handset must be WAP compatible).

Thought I would pass this information along, we spent a few days solving this problem. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

John I also had a similar experience first phone Siemens A56 phone did not work as a modem. Upgraded at a cost of $30 cable and earbud $70 plus buying cable for the first phone cost $25 that did not work at all.

The new phone has features I will never use like camara, radio and others. However I do like the Speakerphone feature on the new Nokia 6102 phone.

[John Harrelson]

Hi REBELSBEACH,

Sorry about that, I should have noted that I bought the new phone in late July with the intention of using it as a email system..

The phone had the capability but I could not figure it out, so I then went to the data cord in middle August to try and set up the laptop.

But before I could get it to work I was called out to go to the Gulf,

While in the hurricane area, I could not get anything to work except the phone for voice only.

After two weeks there, about the middle of September, I decided to go with the GC83 air card.

Cingular would have gladly mailed it to me if there had been mail service in the Hurricane Disaster Area...

But because of the hurricane, there were no stores of ANY type open within 100 miles of where I was assigned ... no gas stations, no grocery stores, no post offices, no nothing..

And since air cards are not normally stocked in the Cingular Outlet Stores, I had to call several stores in upstate Louisiana until I found one that was open and they had just got one shipped in because of all the locals trying to set up communication with their families around the USA.

Thankfully the lady saved for me to be picked up next day on our normal run for fresh water to supply the emergency kitchens.

So, yes, Cingular would have gladly mailed the air card to me if it had been possible.

Sorry I confused you,

John

[John Harrelson]

Very interesting about the CSD thingie BOB, .. I had not heard of that, I have filed this info away for future reference..

Thanks,
John