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Title: Gprs Connection Over Bluetooth
Post by: lenkov on December 04, 2004, 10:57:23 pm
I have t-mobile GPRS Bluetooth phone (sony-ericsson t610), and I want to know is there any easy way to use Bluetooth to connect to GPRS network (as the serial port requires a lot of gymnastics to keep the two devices pointed to each other).

Any preferable CF Bluetooth card I should be using?
Title: Gprs Connection Over Bluetooth
Post by: tumnus on December 05, 2004, 06:12:49 pm
There is a Bluetooth howto that describes all of what you want:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...ename=Bluetooth (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Bluetooth)

The GPRS modem init strings are the same as with IrDA, so if you have that working, there should be no problem.

As for Bluetooth cards, look at this list:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...oothCardSupport (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=BluetoothCardSupport)
Title: Gprs Connection Over Bluetooth
Post by: datajerk on December 06, 2004, 10:53:10 am
What Z/OS?

I also have a T610 with T-mobile.  It works great with my c860 Cacko 1.21b and Blue Monkey CF card.

Under c860/Cacko just select Dial-up (Bluetooth), and put in *99***2# as the phone number, under modem tab search for your phone BT MAC.

You may need to create CID 2 on your phone with an APN of internet2.voicestream.com  (for North America).

Alternatively you may want to create another CID to use internet3.voicestream.com.  You will have to call T-mobile first if you want to use internet3.  internet2 is behind a firewall and uses NAT.  internet3 puts your Z directly on the net.  Make sure your secure any services (e.g. ssh).

Benchmarking internet2 vs internet3 returned the same performance.  I find that if I ssh with compression to my ISP and port forward their proxy to my Z and setup Firefox to use it that I get ok performance.

Any know of a good web accelerator solution for Linux I can port to the Z?