GPRS - Laptop - WinXp BlueTooth

GPRS - Laptop - WinXp BlueTooth

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Adjusting Microsoft Windows XP for connection to Internet over mobile phone

In order to establish a PC connection with the Internet over mobile phone, by using Blue Tooth connection, you first have to connect ("couple") devices. Blue Tooth connection is started using icon in the lower right screen corner.

You need to activate a Blue Tooth connection on your phone and place it in "discoverable" mode, which enables other devices to find it. Selecting option "Add" you start the "wizard" for finding and connecting the Blue Tooth device:


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After couple of seconds the PC shall give a list of all available Blue Tooth devices around:


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Coupling process implies exchange of authorisation passkeys between two Blue Tooth devices. You can select any key with 4 or more digits, or allow the PC to select a passkey for you:

When the PC starts the process of coupling, accept the incoming Blue Tooth connection on your phone and enter the authorisation passkey (in this example: 43275226):


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After the devices exchange passkeys and connect, PC shall start installing services it recognises on the phone (DialUp, Serial port ...):


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Once PC installs the required drivers for phone, the following window will appear:


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Click on Finish to end the coupling and the phone shall appear on the list of available devices:


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After devices have been coupled, you need to adjust parameters for connecting to Internet over GPRS.


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Select Blue Tooth modem in Control Panel, option Phone and Modem Options to be used for connection (in this case Nokia 6230 and 6230i Bluetooth Modem). By selecting option Properties a new window opens. In the fourth slip (Advanced), window "Extra initialization commands" enter:

at+cgdcont=1,"ip","internet"


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Thus modem parameters have been adjusted and now you have to adjust DialUp connection, to be used for connection. Select New Connection Wizard in Control Panel, option Network Connections.


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New Connection Wizard opens a new window with adjustments for DialUp.


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In the first window PC asks about the type of connection to be adjusted. Select "Connect to the Internet" (first option):


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Next, select the option for manual adjustment of Internet connection parameter (second option):


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After this, select the connection mode. In this case Internet link is made over DialUp modem (first option):


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If several modems are installed in the PC, in the next window select a modem to be used for connecting to Internet over GPRS. Disconnect all other possibly active modems, so that the only marked is the modem to be used for GPRS connection. In this example we have used "Modem - Nokia 6230 and 6230i Bluetooth Modem":


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Enter the connection name to be used in the next window:


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After this you need to enter phone number. For NOKIA handset type, as well as for Smartphone handsets(Symbian, Windows Mobile) enter number *99#. For all other handset types, phone number is *99***1#.

In the next window enter user name and password. Your user name is mobtel, and password is gprs.


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The next window is the last one in adjustments.


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By pressing Finish you close the window with adjustments and a new one opens which enables the launching of connection:

After pressing Dial connection to Internet shall start and after a few seconds PC shall report that the connection has been made:

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