11/23/2005
Using Bluetooth DUN on my Treo 650 with Mac OS X
I actually set this up a few weeks ago and was meaning to blog about it, but it slipped my mind.
Using the info in this article, I was able to set up Bluetooth DUN on my PowerBook so that I can surf the Web using my Treo’s wireless Internet connection. The speed is actually not all that bad. What’s much worse is that the connection gets dropped a lot, so if I use it for a long time I need to keep reconnecting, which is a pain. The nice thing about it is that I can have Internet access in a pinch even when there’s no WiFi around, like at my in-laws’ place.
http://captnswing.net/howto/treodun/
Here’s the settings that work for me with Cingular Wireless:
(The password is “cingular1″).
I show them because what goes in the “Telephone Number” and “Account Name” fields is not so obvious.
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Does anyone have the Bluetooth setup for Verizon?
Man, you saved me countless hours of frustration. I was trying to use the ‘dial-up device’ option rather than ‘GPRS’ and was following the model that worked for me on my Dell/Windows XP laptop for using the Treo 650 as a modem. That method involves using a phone number of *99***1# rather than the wap.cingular value you entered. The *99***1# works under dail-up on my Windows laptop, but on the Mac, I kept getting an error that it couldn’t get a PPP connection.
Thanks again!