I'm pretty sure the maximum speed for EDGE is 236.8 kbps.

Thanks for this thread. Very detailed and I was able to connect on my second try (I forgot to add the tmobile string first time ). I am surprised by how fast the browsing speed is seeing it's through a 2g source like Edge. I was even able run bittorrent over it. I was expecting b/t 50kb-80, not 100+. Unlimited internet and no additional cost for tethering..

Anyway, great thread and a big thumbs up for t-mobile.

For those of you who are having problems making the Pearl work as a modem, take note of the above.

Check, double check and then check again the settings, commands and entries as it is easy to make a mistake when typing the strings, etc.

Generally, if you get an "error" and "redial" message, there is something wrong on your end, not with the processes discussed herein.

Of course it is. Even 1XRTT is 144 kbit/s. He must be measuring the tethered speed between phone and laptop by mistake.

using a bluetooth teather and a tweak of the modem settings I get 925Kbs with my 8100 and T-mobile with the Vista OS. I also got these speeds with XP just make sure you set the modem to its highest rate its set at 125kbs default.

hi guyz
been reading on this topic for while now
i have perl and would like to connect
i have bdm open and connected but i have no modem in device manager
when i try to add new modem in control panel in phone & modem it would not give me any option to add

any help on this?

thanks in advance

will check this nextday

Accessing the web works OK on my UK O2 Pearl but I cannot get FTP and SSH to work. Anyone any ideas.

Bob

I am using the old ATT Network (Cingular Blue)

Got 110 down and 51 up. I am thinking of canceling my DSL.. what do you guys think?

Using blackberry as a modem was great ... used it on I-10 on the way to California. Used it in my hotel all weekend instead of paying the $10/day wi-fi fee. Speeds were very serviceable.

Thanks for posting this. I knew the phone was capable of doing it, but havent got around to figuring out how to do it in the month I have had it. Its done now and working perfectly. This is a great backup connection for me.

One issue I do have, that may or may not be related to the phone. Everything works fine, I can SSH, browse the web etc etc using my PC with this phone as the modem, the one thing I cannot do is VPN into work using this connection - which is my primary need for it. I have a email into our guy in charge of our VPN here, but I dont know if he will be able to help. I suspect it is a security setting on our network that might be preventing a wireless VPN connection, but I am not sure.

Is there anything on the phone that might prevent VPN connections? Same PC can VPN just fine on a landline, but not over my blackberry connection.

I am seeing about 180k speeds, everything else works great. Any ideas?

Thanks again!

Since you're obviously satisfied with GPRS data speeds, why do you need dsl? You'll be ecstactic if you ever get EDGE.

Great to know that now i can use the pearl to connect to the internet, but one question: does this connection use my plan minutes or data?

Nice to know that I can connect to the net with the 8100, one question, does this connection use my minutes or data from the montly plan???

It worked great for me the first time, but although I saw others saying that it worked for them over bluetooth, I couldn't get that to work. I can live with it since I might as well sync and charge if I've got my laptop out, but it would be nice to know how.

THANK YOU! I finally got it to work using this line. I thought I was going to lose some hair before trying this...

This rocks!! I can't belive how great this forum is! the flashing tackball was really cool...but this step by step here is awesome! worked first time I set it up THANKS!...this should may be pinned

Thanks also.

Got it to work via USB and Bluetooth.

Using BT I get anywhere from 160kbps to 202kbps down and around 60kbps up.

Anyone know how using the 8100 as a modem via BT affects the battery life? Or is it no different than just using the BB without a BT modem?

how do you set it up for use through bluetooth

What should be set for "PPP Settings" in the Networking tab? I see the following

Enable LCP extensions
Enable software compression
Negotiate multi-link for single link connections

I'm getting about 80kbps download when running speed test from dslreports.com

Just wondering if there are some settings that'll speed up the connection.

The Pearl uses Bluetooth 2.0 spec and based on article from Wikipedia, it has following feature compared to pre 2.0 spec.

"Lower power consumption through a reduced duty cycle."

If it's possible to just run through this setup and use the Pearl as a modem on a regular Pearl Blackberry-only data plan, then why does Cingular offer more expensive data plans specifically for Blackberry tethering, and do I have to get one of those if I want it to work?

Do I need to pay extra phone bill by using Unlimited Web Access.
I am from Singapore and My Service Provider is "StarHub"