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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Cell phone as dial-up modem
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** Reply to note from "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List"  <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:56:58 -0700
>   
> What if anything is available to get a cell phone to act as a dial-up 
> modem?  OS/2 would be nice but I will settle for Win.
>   
> I did this on my previous laptop with the help of Cingular.  I had the 
> choice of paying by the byte or just treating it like an ordinary phone 
> call and just being charged minutes.  I chose minutes.
>   
> I had not done it for a while, had to replace the laptop, Cingular has 
> become AT&T, who now tells me I can't do that any more.  They now insist 
> on a separate data plan which is not cost effective for occasional use.
>   
> On the desktop I can get free dial-up from several ISPs.  If I can get 
> the OS to treat a cell phone as a modem I should be able to do it with a 
> laptop.
>   
> Ray
>   

DOIP or injoy.  I use a data plan broadband but while I still had a dialup
plan I tested it just to see if it would work.  It did, sort of.  Because it was
so slow (much slower than a 56K modem) my ISP often disconnected it.

Cheers
Wayne