So yesterday was, again, one of those days when I was in a place without internet/wifi. Tilbury Fort, on the north bank of Thames, to be exact. I wouldn’t say I’m as much addicted to internet and email as I am reliant on it.
For some reason the web access to my email on my e61 hasn’t worked for the last couple of days. Rest of the web is fine, only my email isn’t (I’ll blame Google for this as they handle email accounts for tapaninaho.com).
As you’ve probably noticed, when setting up a mobile phone to connect to your computer via bluetooth, it gives you an option to use your mobiles data connection to access internet on your computer. [make sentence shorter] I’ve tried it but with no luck. It asks for username and password, and for GPRS CID string. None of which Vodafone had given to me.
I spent about 17 minutes on the phone to Vodafone’s customer support, without a result. In the end, they advised to call Nokia’s technical support.
After some searching, I found the answer: you don’t need username or password at all. All you need is the GPRS CID string, which isn’t as trivial as I thought it would be. Apparently all/most Nokia phones use *99# to initiate a data call (I’m hearing that you should use ‘internet’ as CID string when you’re having to use a Sony-Ericsson phone).
I’ll be adding a screencast on how to do this later this weekend.
–kristian
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