Wireless net access with Motorola C332 and T-Mobile

Dec 13, '02 02:35:08PM

Contributed by: aboswell

I just switched over to T-Mobile Cellular and lo, and behold, there is a USB port on the bottom of my Motorola C332 phone (it's the sorta kidney-bean shaped one with the blue border). The manual said it was for a computer connection and, after some looking around, also a data connection. All I needed was a USB to mini USB (I don't know what else to call it) cable. I then remembered I had one in my Camcorder bag. If you don't have one, they are easily available.

I plugged the USB cable into both computer and cell phone ... and nothing happened. I then went to my Network Preferences and it auto-detected a new Network Port (like Ethernet or Internal Modem) called Motorola Phone (C330). I created a new location called Mobile and put in my dial-up PPP settings (making sure that "Motorola Phone (C330)" was showing by the text "Show:"). Then I went to Modem and saw that there were a whole slew of Motorola modems. After trial and error, the one that worked for me was Motorola iR TimePort (7089).

After saving the configuration, I was able to dial-up through my cell phone and access the internet! Was it fast? No! Was I connected to the internet remotely with no wires except the one connecting my PowerBook to my Cell phone? YES! I thought that was pretty cool. Just a note ... you have to have T-Zones Service to make this work, and there may be charges I am not aware of.

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