Cellphone as modem

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:21 pm

So I got bored today and tried to make my cellphone work as a modem.

It worked, but my carrier charges 1 cent per KB, so that seems a bit excessive. The connection was a rocking 230kbs.

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:05 pm

Unless I messed up my math, at full blast that's using up 28.75 cents per second (presuming you used b as bits and B as bytes). Pricey!

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:26 pm

Yep.

Although, it certainly was not an effective rate of 230kbs, it felt about 28kbs.

I wish I could use the cellphone as a dialup to my unlimited dialup provider. That'd be pretty much free.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:39 pm

Apparently I used $1.72 worth.

Gotta be a way to do dial-up via the cellphone.

98-1151371563 · Post by **98-1151371563** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:59 pm

You can get a G3 card that uses a cell service for broadband access, but check out the ToS.

Sprint, for example, says their service is "unlimited access" but then they say you cannot use it for uploading or downloading streaming video or audio, games or file transfers.