Where I live there is no broadband available so I have an unlimited dial-up connection to the Internet.
I can connect my P800 up to my PC using bluetooth and surf once the PC has dialled in.
Does anyone know where it's possible to automatically kick-start a dialup connection so I could leave the PC on all the time and establish a bluetooth connection with my P800, then go into Opera and the PC elsewhere would know to dial the internet???
Does that make sense?
Basically I want a PC upstairs with a modem on and bluetooth, and from downstairs I wanna be able to surf using my P800 without touching the PC.
Any ideas?
Yes this is possible, although it's hit and miss making it work, for me I just open Opera with the connection to the PC on and it loads the page.
You could try creating a 'dummy' connection and see if it loads that way.
Try it in flight mode too, as it can't connect via GPRS that way, but i'm not sure if it also stops BT.
The connection does work fine but I can only surf if the PC is already dialled in to the Internet.
If it's not dialled in and I open Opera on the P800, is it possible to force the PC to dial up and connect to the Internet?
Flight mode turns off ALL radio, by the way, so that includes bluetooth.
As for having the PC dial on demand, it will vary depending on what OS you're using, but it should certainly be possible.
You must have enabled Internet Connection Sharing for it to work though, and it should be one of the settings for that.
There are web proxy servers that have dial-on-demand functionality. You can install that on your pc and set up the p800 to use the proxy server.
unless Im very much mistaken, the last two posts are both wrong.
Using the P800 with Opera and a shared internet connection does *not* require Internet Connection Sharing to be enabled.
And with a slightly more complex thought process, the proxy idea wouldn't work either, as the P8 will use IP over GPRS/BT/Dialup to contact the proxy. In simple terms, if you had a proxy server with dial on demand running as a host on your pc, it would need to have a valid internet connection already to be able to find the proxy.. which itself wouldn't be on the web yet as it hasn't dialled. If the P8 could use local IPs in finding the proxy, it would work.
One thing that hasn't been pointed out which I'm sure you've considerred is that the p8 needs a bluetooth serial port connection to function for web/email access. Put simply, if you are downstairs and you walk very slightly out of range, you will have to go upstairs to reenable the connection.
However, I reckon I could get it to work on 2000/XP by using a combination of settings and setting the dialup profile to auto dial.
I use 56k dialup at home and have bluetooth, so i will give it a go and see if i can get it to work.
Good luck!
Well, it is possible that the mrouter stuff handles the connection sharing, but as far as I'm aware that isn't the case and you *do* need ICS to be able to surf over bluetooth like that and that's why Bluetake talk about using winroute with their bluetooth adapters if you're using an OS that doesn't support ICS....
But I can't see why you don't think the proxy solution would work. It sounds like you misunderstood what he was suggesting. It wouldn't need an internet connection to find the proxy because the proxy is on the local network, not on the internet. The point is then that you can have a number of the pages cached locally so it doesn't even necessarily need to dial up.