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.
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!