Originally posted by dmackdaddy I just did it with USB and I got EVDO speeds:
2005-10-11 15:39:59 EST: 712 / 59
Your download speed : 729444 bps, or 712 kbps.
A 89 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 61175 bps, or 59 kbps.
So looks like I'll have to buy a few of these USB/MiniUSB cables
It's interesting that the cable I have was originally mae for the Audiovox 5600 Smartphone. My wife bought one to try out (what a nice little package...came with EVERYTHING and it was a pretty nice phone, really). When she returned it, she forgot to put back in the package the USB data cable and the headphones. The Cingular store didn't really care so long as they got the phone and the major components back.
Well, this cable works BEAUTIFULLY with this phone. Just a straight cable, nothing funky or fancy about it. My laptop is seeing EV-DO speeds (haven't done any bandwith testing, but it's pretty darn obvious it's zipping along). Beats the crap out of the 1x system. However, I'll take DUN with the 6700 no matter WHICH system it's presently using when I'm on the road.
Anybody who got this working with bluetooth -- please help.
I've set up a partnership with Windows XP. The PPC shows up in "bluetooth devices" in Windows. If I select my PPC in the panel and click "properties," then the "services" tab, I see "dial-up networking (DUN) Com 4" -- and it is checked off. Seems good to me.
I load wmodem and start it up.
Back to my laptop: load "bluetooth network connection" (found in the network connections group) and no bluetooth devices are listed. I click add, and after searching, it can't find mine. My PPC is set to discoverable, so I know that isn't the problem. So maybe this doesn't work because its for PAN services, and I'm supposed to be working via DUN. Now, if only I had a clue what to do with that hypothesis.
Alright -- almost there. I figured out how to treat my ppc as a modem (com 4) in dial up networking, and made #777 the dial number. I don't know what username / password are supposed to be. Leaving them blank does not accomplish anything. *something* happens when i click dial -- my phone starts going crazy trying to dial #777, but nothing ultimately happens, and windows reports that the device failed to respond.
Originally posted by djedery Alright -- almost there. I figured out how to treat my ppc as a modem (com 4) in dial up networking, and made #777 the dial number. I don't know what username / password are supposed to be. Leaving them blank does not accomplish anything. *something* happens when i click dial -- my phone starts going crazy trying to dial #777, but nothing ultimately happens, and windows reports that the device failed to respond.
Your username should be your normal Sprint PCS cell phone's email address, which you can get from "phone info" in most phones.
Your password should be your normal Sprint PCS vision account's password
You can get the info on both from calling a CSR. They usually are pretty good about helping you with that info once they can identify that it is you, in fact, who is calling about your account.
MY problem with BT is that once I install it and its software onto my laptop, I can no longer access the internet, although I can ping IP addresses, etc.
Thru BT is a waste, I get 1X speeds thru BT and EVDO thru USB>MiniUSB. There is too much that can go wrong with BT speedwise. I know I hate cable too, but I rather use the cable and get 712kbps than 120kbps using BT.
BT maxes out at 412kbps, anyone seeing 300+?
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Make sure it works via USB first. Also, you should be using the Microsoft BT stack for your PC. If you see a "My Bluetooth Places" icon on your desktop you're using the Widcomm stack.
Are you in an EV-DO area? If so I wouldn't waste your time with BT tethering. It's slow and will eat up both your laptop and PPC's batteries.
ok. I got the 6700 working with my laptop on both BT and USB and can pretty much at will, connect to whichever way I like. Now the question. When the connection is established, both the BT and USB says "connected at 230.4kb". Does that mean I am only going to get that 230kb maximum speed? I tried looking at the modem properties and nowhere it will let me ajust the connection to above 230kb.
luv2chill,
I have Widcomm stack in my IBM laptop and it works fine. During the BT DUN install, the MS Anti-spam software told me I was installing a new winsock stack too. Furthermore, I think setting up DUN via BT and USB has nothing to do with each other, thus setting up USB DUN first really should not be a requirement. In my "device manager", there are separate BT modem and cdma usb modem. Depending on the connection, the computer uses one or the other.
I'm still having no luck. aau007 -- could you tell me everyting about your BT dialup settings, and everything about your BT modem settings (in device manager?) My IBM laptop and PPC are definitely talking (i can query modem in device manager, no problem).
Perhaps the appropriate stacks weren't installed? What should I find in my Bluetooth Network Connectoin Properties?
Originally posted by djedery My IBM laptop and PPC are definitely talking (i can query modem in device manager, no problem).
That's a good sign.
I will try to recall what I did. I use a Thinkpad x41 and this should also apply to the T43 with builtin BT. This may not apply to other Thinkpads or computers. Since you can query your BT modem, you may be able to skip some steps below.
To start:
1. Go to Device Manager and expand Bluetooth Devices, the branch should show ThinkPad Integrated Bluetooth IV. Double click on it and go to Driver, and my Driver Provider is WIDCOMM, Driver Date is 5/23/2005 and Driver Version is 3.0.1.917. You should have the BT driver on earlier than this. Otherwise, go to Lenovo web site and download the latest.
2. Make sure your BT light is lit up.
3. Now turn on the BT in the 6700. BT light on top left blinks once every 2 times the signal blinks on right.
To setup:
1. On 6700, go to Settings, Bluetooth. At Mode tab, make sure both boxes for Turn on Bluetooth and Make this device ... are checked. Tap on COM Ports tab and define an Incoming Port with COM0. Over at Security tab, check the box for Passkey.
2. Now the 6700 is ready for discovery.
3. At ThinkPad, double click on "Find Bluetooth Devices". I had to try a few times here to find it but eventually the TP found it and will identify as Name, Personal Digital Assistant. Once you get the PDA to show up, right click and go to Pair Device.
4. Give a 4 digit code on the TP when it asks you for pairing code. Once you do that, the 6700 will prompt if you want to accept the pairing. Answer Yes and put in the same code. A screen on the 6700 will then open with the TP computer name. Check the box for Dialup Networking below on the 6700 and click Finish.
5. During the pairing, the PDA icon in the BT neighorhood should flash green momentarily and the pairing screen on the TP should go away.
6. On 6700, open up Wireless Modem application. Make sure your blue light on upper left hand corner is still flashing.
7. Make sure the 6700 does not have a current session. To make sure, click on the signal strength meter and click Turn on flight mode. Wait for the completion tone, click on the meter again and click Turn off flight mode. Wait for your signal strength to come back.
8. Confirm that the 3 boxes under connection type is black. Change Connection Type to BT and click Start.
9. Back to the ThinkPad. Double Click on PDA in the Find BT device screen. You should see DUN on Name, OBEX Object Push on Name and Voice Gateway on Name.
10. Double click on DUN on Name. A status box pops up and says "connection DUN on Name". Then a "Connect BluetoothConnection dial up box appears with Username, Password, etc. At the point, your "Dial-up Networking on Name" icon back in the Find BT device screen should turn green with 2 arrows pointing to each other at the bottom of icon.
11. If you don't get the status box and the "Connect BluetoothConnection" screen, your BT pairing did not work.
11. In the "Connect BluetoothConnection" box, leave Username and Password blank. Check the box for "Save this user name ...". Dial box should say #777
12. Click Dial.
13. Within 10 seconds, you should see the Connection box on 6700 turn yellow and connection is made. Test with your Internet Explorer. When trying to pull up a web page, you should see the Send and Receive boxes flashing. If ok, goto #15. If you get an error about dialing error, don't panic, read on.
14. If error at #13, go back to 6700, stop the Wireless Modem. Go back to #7 and try again.
15. If all are good until this point, you have done it. You can then right click on "Dial-up Networking on Name" and select "Create Shorcut" to put a Shortcut in My Bluetooth Place for future convienient.
Some checkmarks for you.
In Bluetooth Configuration under Control Panel, over at the Client Applications, you don't need to define any comm ports. Secure Connection is "Required" at "Dial-up Networking" on mine. Under Device manager in modems section, you should have a bluetooth modem. On the 6700, under Settings, BT and the Devices tab, you should see your computer as one of the Partnership.
I hope I did not miss anything as that's about as much I can recall and re-create.
aau007 -- thank you for the very detailed description!
I've finally gotten my PPC to work as a modem for my laptop via bluetooth. It turns out that I was 99% of the way there when I made my last post. The catch, sadly, had nothing to do with missing a step (as posted by aau007). It turns out that (for reasons I cannot imagine) some of us need to enter something in the username/password fields in windows dial up networking, and some of us don't.
All I had to do is enter my phone number (just digits -- no dashes, spaces, etc) into the username field and my regular sprint password into the password field. That's all it took. I never thought of trying that because everyone kept saying "keep the fields blank." But apparently, some of us can't do that.
PROBLEMS WITH BLUETOOTH AND USB DIAL UP NETWORKING
After trial and error each time, I am able to get bluettoth dialup ntworking and usb dialup networking working. It is from the GREAT help posted on this and Shadowmite's Forum that has allowed me to get this far.
It seems like I have to try to connect, then reboot or unplug the usb wire. Finally after fooling around for a while it always works.
The connections are both strong and stable. I am able to stay on well over an hour when I finally get on.
Maybe someone can give me a suggestion
about what setting needs to be changed. If you speak to me like a two yeatr old, There is a chance that I will succeed.
Thank you in advance for keeping me in the Pocket PC game. Without you guys, the phone whould have gone back long ago.
I now feel that there is a chance that I will be able to maximize the potential of this device..
Last edited by stevendemar : 10-22-2005 at 02:38 PM.
For me sometimes I get a lot of some kind of 'dialing error' on the laptop. If I reboot the 6700 it all works right away. I should try the phone number in the user field, I guess.
From my experience, you should always start the wireless modem and hit "start" before you plug in the USB cable. This is because the cdma modem via usb does not load properly unless wireless modem has been started when you plug in the usb cable. For BT, although I don't necessary need to start the wireless modem first, I may not get a connection if I start dialing too soon after I start the wireless modem. Another important thing is to make sure you don't have an active data connection on the phone.
With BT you start the wireless modem app on the 6700? I never did that and it still connected. Maybe It would solve my having to reboot the 6700 first problem.
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I've been able to configure the USB DUN for my ppc-6700, however I lose the connection after a minute or so. The strange thing is that my computer still maintains an ip address, but I can't ping any other ip's.
Before the disconnect I definitely have a connection as I can hit internet sites.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why I am getting disconnected and what I can do to make it more stable?
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