Explain it to me like I'm a two year old.

Greetings,

I am still working out all the great things I can do with my T68i Bluetooth
phone and the Internet. I have figured out how to access Earthlink email by
making it my default email service and using the phone. I think I can get to
my other internet/pop3 email services if I just set them up.

What I'd like to do is to use Bluetooth to connect my laptop to the phone
and use the phone as a modem to the internet. What I am wondering is do I
need to use GPRS or GSM or can I simply dial-up the Earthlink number locally
and use it that way? I have tried the Earthlink dial-up and while the phone
does dial no connection is made so I suspect that I need to use my GSM or
GPRS service. Is there any reason to use one over the other? What kind of
speeds can I expect with this sort of hook up?

Thanks in advance
Tony Clark
Mill Creek, WA

Ooops... True. I meant (as indicated by Benjamin) 9.6kbps...


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"Benjamin P. Volk" <benvolk@chartertn.net> wrote in message
news:3f077f20@shknews01...
> Although I'm sure most people knew what you meant, it's 9600bps not
kbps...
> the actual top speed for that would be about 13k, but that's kinda like
the
> old 56k modem, no one actually hits those speeds.
>
> Depending upon the service provider, and the area, you may get 75k speeds
> through your GPRS service sometime later this year.
>
> Sincerely,
> Webmasters @ www.cooltechgear.com
>
>
> "Mauricio Freitas" <dr.emailposter@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
> news:y0aMa.2208$9f7.207740@news02.tsnz.net...
> > You can dial Eartlhink while using the T68 as modem (via Bluetooth,
cable
> or
> > IR). The maximum speed on GSM is 9600kbps, though. If you connect to
GPRS
> > (which is a network access provided by your carrier), then maximum speed
> > will increase to around 40kbps. Since you already have the phone
accesing
> > the e-mail over GPRS, your notebook will be able to do the same.
> >
> > Look at http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=449 for
> instructions
> > on how to setup this.
> >
> > --
> > Mauricio Freitas
> > Handhelds, mobile: http://www.geekzone.co.nz or
> > http://www.bluetoothguide.com
> >
> >
> > "Tony Clark" <waclark@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:bdqr51$hnq$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net...
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I am still working out all the great things I can do with my T68i
> > Bluetooth
> > > phone and the Internet. I have figured out how to access Earthlink
email
> > by
> > > making it my default email service and using the phone. I think I can
> get
> > to
> > > my other internet/pop3 email services if I just set them up.
> > >
> > > What I'd like to do is to use Bluetooth to connect my laptop to the
> phone
> > > and use the phone as a modem to the internet. What I am wondering is
do
> I
> > > need to use GPRS or GSM or can I simply dial-up the Earthlink number
> > locally
> > > and use it that way? I have tried the Earthlink dial-up and while the
> > phone
> > > does dial no connection is made so I suspect that I need to use my GSM
> or
> > > GPRS service. Is there any reason to use one over the other? What kind
> of
> > > speeds can I expect with this sort of hook up?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Tony Clark
> > > Mill Creek, WA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>