worked like a charm. good if you need internet. not good if you need high speed internet

Thinking of buying a Pearl tomorrow now that Cingular finally is going to release one.... Wondering if anyone has been sucessfull accessing the modem feature through bluetooth instead of the USB tether?

If they can write a script to do it on a Mac, why not a PC? (I understand that Windows is pretty lame, but still, there has to be a way)

Bob
Yes, the same initialisation string and *99# should get you connected when you roam. No need to change anything.

Whether your service actually works when roaming probably depends on what sort of tariff you are on. GPRS roaming should work independently from Blackberry roaming (which with O2 requires a separate monthly payment to enable), so you should be OK.

Gra

I just want to say that I freakin love this phone. I just connected to the internet using my 8100. Im a huge tech geek and I cant believe ive gone this long without the blackberry. This is my first balckberry and Im totally excited...............Thanks to this forum for your help

Thanks to all, I successfully connected to the internet with the 8100. Im new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if you can transfer wma music files to the 8100?

I kept getting an error 692...

Called T-Mobile and he said I need to update my software which I thought was up to date already... OOPS... Hopefully this fixes the problem for me. Would you guys recommend updating the Handheld software though? My brother did it once and the phone just stopped working after that....

Also I did notice that the Command String he gave me is longer than what people have posted here... I don't know if it'll make any difference but he said to enter

+cgdcont=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com","",0,0

following up on cphemp's post:

Has anyone gotten tethering or using the 8100 as a modem with Cingular? Via USB or Bluetooth?

Thanks!!

Hello all,

Thanks for the tutorial! Does anyone know the initialization string for Vancouver, Canada. (Rogers Wireless).

Thanks!

Whats up guys,
Bought the pearl about a month ago and have been loving it. I just connected my new hp laptop to use the phone as a modem. IM loving it, the speed is 115.2 kb/s and its fast enough when i am on the go and love that its included in the $20 data plan (I called and confimed with t-mob that it was included). Great forum and i will frequent it often. thank for the tutorial.

I'm going to print these directions out right now and put in my laptop bag. Gonna make two copies.....one for me and the wifey so when we travel, we can connect if there's no wifi available. Thanks man!

What I posted before and what I do:

Put the directions into an e-mail. Mail it to yourself. When it is on your BB, save the e-mail on your Pearl.

I have many e-mails in my Pearl saved folder on "how tos" related to the Pearl.

Dont bother trying to use the Pearl as a modem as your going to get speeds LESS than a 56k modem does.

I decided to try it seeing the threads here and on other boards and the speed tests I ran "multiple times" with a 1/2 meg file, the larger the file the more accurate the tests, were only average 30-40k at best. I did get one slighly higher around 50k but averaging is 30-40k.

When you connect the Pearl to the PC, it says connecting at 115k (I forgot to write it down but its 115 or 118k) but its VERY slow. Way to slow for any kind of graphics, music or video downloads. So slow that I aborted the loading of many pages as it was so frustrating.

I ran a few tests using:

http://infospeed.verizon.net/speedte...edtest500k.asp

and the best I did was 46k for a 1/2 meg file. It took 86.81 seconds to download.

I dont think its my PC as this is only a 4-5 month old Dell running at 2.8 with a gig of ram.

Figured it out. Was my laptop usb port crapping out. Bought new comp. Works great now. Only cost a grand! Lol

Yes, i've gotten it to work via bluetooth sans tethering plan. I'm currently unclear as to whether I'll be charged for tethering post-facto.

The same instructions work except you want I think:

wap.cingular as the #
as the username (case sensitive)
CINGULAR1 as the pw (case sensitive)

This response able looks promising. Is the BT connection of the phone to a laptop the fastest throughput way to use a Pearl as a modem? What is the average data rate achieved? Is a USB connection faster? Is the set-up using an off the shelf Cingular 8100, does Cingular permit this or do they block this feature forcing us to use hacks and work-arounds?

Would really appreciate more detail on users who have succeeded to use the Standar Cingular Pearl as a modem.

Thanks!

Chris

I hate when USB ports fail. They are such delicate things.

Old issue since you got a new notebook, but did you check Windows System Properties - Device Manager to make sure it was not the XP driver that was crapping out?

P.s. Cool Beastie Boys avatar. Love that video.

problem here...it says the ppp link control was terminated...any help on this would be great thanks...

ok got it up and running...it was the string it needed the "IP" in it somebody else posed it already but it's good to go now...thanks again...

I have a mac so I'm not sure how to otherwise enable tethering besides BT. Thus I have done no quantitative speed tests a) because there is no alternative for me, b) I'm scared of tethering rates being charged to my bill, and c) I haven't had a need for tethering yet (e.g. no travel).

From what I recall, the speed was good enough to say check emails, google calendar or fantasy team, but not enough to manage a source code repository, watch videos or other mid to high bandwidth applications.

i have the modem going over BT on my 8100... havent rec'd the bill yet, im interested to see the data charges!

Its awesome though, i dont have to carry an aircard around anymore!

Did you get your error 692 resolved? I have the same problem. Would love to know how you took care of the problem. Thank you.

just to let you guys know.. i have A 8935985746 hour drive to north carolina tomorrow. and you guys are LIFE SAVERS! thank you.

Driving and surfing on your laptop are bad

Great Tutorial.

I have a question though. I'm in Mexico and my service provider is Telcel. How can i find out the command string I have to use for this provider? In costumer support they dont have any idea.

Thanks!

This is pretty sweet. I had some initial connection issues....the string has to be this exact:

+cgdcont=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com"

I had a space after the last quote and it didn't work until I removed it.

If you are looking for a speedy connection don't bother, but in emergencies, it serves a purpose.

Thanks,
Z

Hey guys,

I bought my 8100 Pearl unlocked on eBay a few months ago and I'm with Cingular. I have been searching around and haven't seen a lot of clear instructions for the Pearl operating as modems for blackberry users with Macs (Powerbooks 10.4.7). Any help?

Sorry people...this is my 1st post ANYWHERE

Thanks to all who figured this out and for the turorial. I was able to follow the instructions with the only difference being in the extra initialization string for the modem. Here is what worked for me: +cgdcont=1,"IP","wap.cingular"

I just did a few speed checks using speakeasy which shows I'm averaging 180K down and 25k up.

with great success! and at 115.2Kbps!

I've gotten mine set up and it worked great while I traveled over the holidays - thanks SF your step-by-step worked great. but now I'm back home with my wireless network and the BB keeps wanting to connect - how do I turn it off, it isn't set at default (the home network is) I don't want to delete the connection because it was a pain to setup. I just want it to stop trying to connect all the time. any suggestions?

Did you try to disable the connection? (Right Click and Disable. To Enable it again once disabled, Right Click and Enable). You can find your connection icon in the Network Connections under Control Panel.

Any Cingular members out there? I have the Blackberry Unlimited plan ($44.99 a month). I noticed they also have a tethered plan for over $70 a month. If I use my Pearl as a modem with my current data plan, will I receive additional charges? (I know I should probably direct this question to customer service at Cingular but their wait times are unbearable and customer service is horrible)

thanks, I'll try that as soon as I get home. sometimes the most obvious things are the hardest to figure out. hiding in plain sight, as they say.


edit: don't have that option, that's why I couldn't find it before.

I did not get charged for the 2 or 3 minutes I was tethered last month. However, don't blame me if they notice high traffic. On the other hand, I haven't heard of anyone getting billed for this tethering in my casual perusals here or on pinstack or on the fibble instruction post. Also, for what its worth, the fellas at the Cingular store where I bought my pearl said there was little they could do to stop us from tethering once we had it working.

I think the tethering price is primarily priced for the USB connection software instead of any particular technical limitations of forwarding TCP packets. My guess is that Cingular can't tell whether a data packet is originally from Opera, BB browser, or bluetooth forwarding.

One question, is this illegal leeching of T-mo?

not sure I understand: am I leeching off t-mo - by paying for the unlimited data? or are they leeching off me by charging me for a service I'm using?
don't mean to be dense, but I'm only on my first cup of coffee

Thanks folks. Works great. Writing with it now. How are the speeds when not on the EDGE network and on the GPRS (I won't be able to test for quite some time)?

My connection is unreliable. Although the tray icon shows I am connected I cannot connect to any web site. The phone also cannot receive email and cannot access the web with the BlackBerry browser.

I have to reboot the phone to be able to reconnect.

Anone any ideas?

Bob

I have problem with conecting to internet. I was connecting normaly via bluetooth and now after a week while dialing when iot gets to part when its registring me on the network, i get error,something about PPP and i cant connect. Can anyone help??

i cant seems to get it to work. i keep getting an error 633 when i try to connect. i left the user name and password sections black when setting it up, but when i click on the icon, it comes up at username:owner, and asks for a password. anyone know what may be the problem? thanks in advance.