Use your 3G Cellphone for Broadband Internet Access

How To: Use your 3G Cellphone for Broadband Internet Access
for everyone

This may be a little outdated to inform you but I think it still is a good share. These instructions will allow you to use your 3G or HSDPA phone to be used as a modem to your PC and connect to the internet with broadband speed! I will be using the Nokia N70 as an example unit with Smart as the network provider, but the steps can be applicable to any 3G-enabled phone and other providers.

Things to accomplish first before connecting:
1. Make sure you have the Access points downloaded to your phone (i.e. Smart Internet, Smart GPRS, Smart MMS, etc.)

2. Have your phone suite installed in your PC

3. Once installed, make sure your cellphone drivers are also present when you plug it in to the USB. It should appear as a "USB Modem" in your device manager.

4. Of course, make sure that you have 3G signal in your location, or else you will only be connecting on GRPS speed, which is worse than a dialup!


Connecting to the internet:
1. You may try to use the Nokia PC Suite to connect online using 3G. If you would setup the network connection in the PC Suite, there's an option to choose your service provider. Globe Philippines and Smart Philippines should be there.

2. After choosing your appropriate network provider, try to connect. If you are able to connect and surf, you should be good to go.

3. If it failed to connect, try the next step.

4. Upon your attempt to connect to the internet using the PC Suite, a dialup connectoid is automatically created when you check the Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel (or Start > Connect to) for Vista; Network Connections for XP.

5. Before proceeding, go back to the device manager and open the properties of the Nokia USB modem.

6. Click the Advanced tab, and here you will see a box for Extra Initialization Command to which you can enter a command string. Input this on the box exactly as it appears: +CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"

7. Click OK then close the rest of the windows.

8. This time try connecting using that dialup connectoid in Connect To. The dialup number should be set to *99# and that username and password fields are blank.

9. Once connected, you will see a balloon message on the system tray saying that you are connected. 480+ Kbps of connection baby! Enjoy surfing!

Tip: When using Globe, first send the message TIMER to 1111 to start your 5 pesos per 15 minute charge, or else you will be charged 15c per kilobyte. That's gonna hurt. For Smart no further configuration needed, just follow the instructions above.