Next G Mobile as Modem

Hi Bruce,

For my Samsung A412, I had to download a program called PC studio. It was on the Samsung site and made connecting to the net simple. I rang the Telstra help desk and they explained it- the sales people had no idea!

Graeme

Bruce, I have the Acer Netbook and use my Motorola V9 as a modem using a Data Pack from Telstra.

It works perfectly with the included Motorola software.

Just a couple of mouse clicks and I'm on the net.

Don't rely on Telstra sales staff. They have no idea whatsoever about any of their products. As a matter of fact I try to buy my phones from privately owned phone shops. They try harder and know their stuff.

cheers

I bought a new Telstra mobile in Broome a few months back with the express purpose of using it as a modem for my laptop. Paid for a 1G data package and was full of good hope.
Long story made short is that after I finally got some sense from them, a few weeks later in Darwin, I was told "Oh that will not work with Vista".
At least they refunded the price of the data package and now I have a mobile I probably didn't need.
By the way there is a hotspot over looking the Pentecost River just out of Home Hill Station.
M.

Hi Bruce,

've got a Lenova running a next g turbo card and its performed super with only 1 "ID10t" error when I 1st installed it.

Cheers Wilko

Hi Isuzumu,

I have the same problem withmy EeePc and yet have been successfully using my NextG phone as a modem with my other laptops for years.

Is your phone a SmartPhone with Windows Mobile operating system or a standard NextG phone?

If you have Windows Mobile then clicking on the Internet Sharing icon is what I have used in the past to connect through the phone. As mentioned in other replies this was a 2 click process. So far I have also been unable to connect the EeePc for some reason.

Will watch this thread with interest but I expect that a post on a forum like Whirlpool might receive better results from the geek community. Ha!

BW

There are EEEPC forums Perhaps ask on there as they modify them and do allsorts of things with them

Google for it

I've been using my NextG Nokia 6120 as a modem for a couple of years now on three different laptops from win98, XP, Vista and now Win7 with no problems once I sorted out that you must have the Nokia PC Suite installed on the lappy and use the same USB port each time or it "sees" a different modem and you have to adjust the settings to Telstra (or whatever you ISP is) each time you connect.
Tried using Bluetooth for the connection and always had grief so stuck to the USB cable.

Thanks for all your replies everyone, I am using a Telstra ZTE Next G. what I have found when I tried to set it up was....I went to Control Panel..Phone and Modem Options and there it was, but I can not get it to work. So I will tell them it does not and go back to using my Prepaid wireless modem, what a shame as I would think the phone would have got better reception especially as I was going to buy an aerial for it to.