Pearl, T-mobile, tethered modem

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damario rocka

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I am still of the mindset that it's an OS issue. After everything is said and done, it always goes back to the OS. And I have deleted and reinstalled the desktop manager everytime to see if that fixes it. No luck. There has to be something missing from the drivers. Some line of code that tells the computer to keep the connection open until the user terminates it. Anyone know how to read code? Lol. Maybe some computer geekster can come up with a solution.
 
I was wondering the same thing myself, mysmyrrh but I think it may be the provider somewhat involved here. Otherwise, we could forget and leave it signed on for hours. Therefore I am looking for something that tells the O/S, times-up! And I think your right that would be in the code.
 
WORTH NOTING:
If your phone tries to use your tcp settings while you are connected to your laptop with tethering, you will lose your laptop connection...

For example, the Opera web browser uses your tcp settings to connect instead of the wap settings that the BB browser uses... if you trying browsing to a webpage in Opera on your BlackBerry, it will terminate the laptop data connection, and you will have to disconnect and reconnect....

I experienced this recently with JiveTalk, which uses TCP to connect, and will terminate the tethered connection after a few minutes.
 
i keep getting a "hardware failure" error or a "connection port" error. I followed the steps exactly. Is there something I'm missing like a special cord that goes from dail-up port to your phone??

Please Help
 
Nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks though.

MAKE SURE YOU enable your com port option on your desktop manager. I was looking around my desktop manager and saw that the bluetooth/usb was enabled and ready, but my Com port was disabled. Enable it so it be ready to be used. If you do it correctly, the status on the Com port will display "disconnected"
 
I am about to go on a trip with a LOT of roaming. I think I will be primarily roaming on Dobson/Cell One in the Navajo reservation area of the 4 corners. Do I need to change the APN in the modem init string?
 
If you still are not able to connect, try changing the dial-up phone number to *99***1# ; go back into your berry and leave the TCP field blank.
After that you will need to go back to you control panel, phones and modems, click the modems tab, highlight the standard modem, click on properties, click on advanced tab, and enter at+cgdcont=1,"IP","wap.voicestream.com" on the extra initializations commands.
This is for Tmobile customers only.
 
For some reason this week I was able to connect and hold the connection for the longest time ever. Approximately 25 minutes. I even had emails come in to the BB while I was surfing with the PEARL tethered. Then a call came in and a few seconds in dropped the connection to the modem. I NEVER would have expected either to take place while I was using the BB as a modem. After that, I tried it again and was online for about 35 minutes. Go figure. I have not changed anything in the set up for weeks now.
However, I was in the RDU airport and instead of T-Mobile my BB read Cingular. I know NC is one place that T-Mobile is not present or at least where I go they aren't. Usually in that area I am on SunCom but at the airport it always switches to Cingular.

I have never been able to remain connected for longer than 1 - 3 minutes using the BB as a modem. While roaming on another network it worked better than ever. Downloading files was very slow but web pages were satisfactory considering the hardware and BlueTooth connection. Still beats the heck out of paying $7.00/hr for a short connection to do a few things.

A few weeks prior to this trip, same setup, same airport, practically the same area of the airport, I could not connect the modem no matter how many times I tried. It all just seems very unreliable. Hit or miss.
 
Well, here is an update on my latest experience with the tethered modem. After my most recent post, 3 up from here. I was in NYC this week and without changing anything since my recent success in Durham, NC, I could not hold s connection for more than 2 minutes again. I tried relentlessly. I had max signal and the Pearl read EDGE, so everything looked like max performance, network speaking.

I am beginning to think since I finally had success for extrended periods of time elsewhere it is more network related than anything else now.
Chicago tonight will try it here too.
 
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There you have it. Works in Chicago too. Holding connection for 40 minutes. On My iBook I have made the internal modem connection completely inactive.
System Preferences, click Network, click show network port configurations, uncheck internal modem, Apply now.

The internal modem on the iBook as well as the choices does not include anything less than 56k speed, just v.32 v.34. v.90 and v.92. I did not add the extra initialization command either but that's just on an iBook. other members have reported that as being very helpful.

Also, I was able to connect to AOL on the laptop using TCP/IP connection without interruption.

I never receive an errors just 'disconnecting' and no reason as to why. It seems to have different performance as I move around the country.
Perhaps I am just mis-understanding how this really works.
 
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