I posted this in another thread but I figured it would be good to put it in its own....

As far as utilizing the Wing as an internet device to service a laptop, the Wing actually does it quite well. But they do it differently than the MDA. It took me a call to the Data Team at T-Mobile to figure it out but once they told me I felt stupid that I did not figure it out for myself. Here is how it works:

1) You pair the Wing with the laptop (normal deal, no surprises there). NOTE: If you want to use ActiveSync over bluetooth, initiate the pairing by going into ActiveSync on the Wing and choose sync over Bluetooth. This is the best way to get the pairing to enable ActiveSync over bluetooth.

2) Search for BT devices on your laptop and double click on the Pocket PC (It actually shows up as a "Smart Phone" rather than PDA). You will notice that there is NO Dialup Networking service (don't panic, its okay)

3) Now, from the Wing, go to Accessories to find the icon for Internet Sharing. Execute that and choose bluetooth from the pulldown and the click CONNECT.

4) You should see a new network device on your laptop for Blutooth Network or PAN at 700kb or something like that. You have now created a "PAN" -- Personal Area Network between your Wing and your laptop. The laptop sees your Wing as another networked device in the PAN which serves as your Internet Gateway!

Surf the web! You are good to go!

Notes:
1) you cannot activesync while the PAN is active. But once you disable the Internet Sharing on your Wing, you should be able to initiate an ActiveSync from the Wing over Bluetooth.
2) incoming calls do not shut down the PAN -- it just prevents internet access during the call. Once the call has finished, surfing continues.
3) Internet Sharing must be running for the PAN to function so once it is started, you might want to go to Start->Today to put it in the background. You can do other stuff on the Wing while Internet Sharing is active.

Last thing: use this same program for Internet access while connected via the USB Cable. Just select USB instead of Bluetooth from the Internet Sharing app. When done in this manner, you will see a Bluetooth Network connection on your laptop at 10mb connection speed.

Good deal rpeete I'm sure many will find this useful!

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This may be a dumb question but....Do you have to have an edge internet signal in order to share the internet connection from the wing to a laptop? Right now I have an edge signal and I tried the internet sharing and it worked but if i was in a location where i didn't have edge, would I still be able to access the internet on my laptop? If not... do I have any other options for getting to the internet through my wing?? Thanks!

You can do it with a usb cable too although bluetooth might be easier with the usb cable the laptop is powering the wing while using it as a modem. Haven't tried it with the wing but it worked on the MDA, pretty miserable slow but better than nothing at all.