Cingular cell phone service - Go between device for Cingular 2125 wifi ?

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Go between device for Cingular 2125 wifi ?

Edward

2007-05-14, 10:33 pm

I have my phone configured when I plug it into my laptop via USB, I
get internet.
I removed proxy address in settings.
If there were a go between receiving device It would connect to wifi.
Anyone have any ideas ?

Todd Allcock

2007-05-15, 4:33 am

At 14 May 2007 21:41:00 -0400 Edward wrote:
> I have my phone configured when I plug it into my laptop via USB, I
> get internet.

Ok...

> If there were a go between receiving device It would connect to wifi.
> Anyone have any ideas ?

Why? You want WiFi on the 2125 so bad you plan to leave the phone
connected to the laptop and this (non-existant) "go-between" device?

Why not just connect to Wi-Fi with the laptop and connect the 2125 to the
laptop via Activesync using Internet Passthrough?

Or am I not understanding (at all) what you're trying to accomplish?

Edward

2007-05-15, 10:33 am

What I would like to accomplish is wifi thru phone only.
I guess the ideal product would be a wifi adapter that plugs into the
usb jack on the phone.
It may be non-existant today but maybe not tommorow.

Edward

On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:58:05 -0600, Todd Allcock
< elecconnec@AmericaOn
Line.com> wrote:

>At 14 May 2007 21:41:00 -0400 Edward wrote:
>
>Ok...
>
>
>Why? You want WiFi on the 2125 so bad you plan to leave the phone
>connected to the laptop and this (non-existant) "go-between" device?
>
>Why not just connect to Wi-Fi with the laptop and connect the 2125 to the
>laptop via Activesync using Internet Passthrough?
>
>Or am I not understanding (at all) what you're trying to accomplish?

Todd Allcock

2007-05-15, 12:33 pm

At 15 May 2007 14:18:14 +0000 Edward wrote:
> What I would like to accomplish is wifi thru phone only.
> I guess the ideal product would be a wifi adapter that plugs into the
> usb jack on the phone.
> It may be non-existant today but maybe not tommorow.

It'll be non-existant tomorrow as well- at least for your 2125. Phones,
like the 2125, are generally USB client devices, not hosts, therefore
they're designed to be plugged into host devices like PCs, not "receive"
peripherals into them. The presence of a USB port on a device doesn't
mean it has full USB support- i.e. you wouldn't expect to plug a USB Wi-
Fi dongle into a USB flash Card reader and magically create a wi-fi card
reader! The 2125's USB port doesn't support Wi-Fi either.

Any phone would have to be specially designed to accept a Wi-fi dongle,
and have drivers to run it. Seems to me that any manufacturer interested
in doing that would just build Wi-Fi into the phone in the first place.

Face it, Edward, you need to buy a new phone to get Wi-Fi!
T-Mobile's SDA is essentially the Wi-Fi equipped Version of your 2125,
and can be unlocked to work on Cingular, or Cingular's own 8125 and 8525
are Wi-Fi equipped already.

RMZ

2007-05-16, 10:33 pm

On May 14, 8:41 pm, Edward <m...@myhouse.org> wrote:
> I have my phone configured when I plug it into my laptop via USB, I
> get internet.
> I removed proxy address in settings.
> If there were a go between receiving device It would connect to wifi.
> Anyone have any ideas ?

There is no WiFi radio in Cingular 2125, this was one of the big
compliants about the 2125 when reviewers compared it to the T-Mobile
SDA, the SDA is essentially the same phone with a slightly different
shell and the added bonus of WiFi.

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