Mobile Tel company 3 launched new price plan this month, it includes the Mix & Match for voice text service, X-Series and Mobile Broadband Internet.
I recently finished my phone contract with O2, therefore got the chance to join the 3 service. I singed a Nokia 6120 Phone, with Mix & Match 300 and Broadband Lite contract. The package aslo includes Skype and MSN service. I added the Broadband Lite, which gives me 1 GB data allowance per month to use the mobile as laptop modem. 3 provides mobile braodband on 3G and 3.5G(also known as HSDPA) network. The maximum speed can reach 2.8Mbps, which is almost 40 times compare to GPRS.
So, let's start. Actually, it is a little bit tricky to use the phone as the modem. The Nokia PC Suite software only allows to use the phone as modem via USB cable connection, not bluetooth. I tested the network with USB connection first, it works prefectly. Then I turned to N800, try to use the bluetooth. On the N800, there is phone connection wizard setup, which can configure the bluetooth phone and choose mobile network operator. So I tried this first, used this wizard. But when I tested the network, N800 connected the 6120 via bluetooth, and the phone initiated 3G connection.Few seconds late, N800 displayed a connection error, something like "remote server int error", and then dropped the connection. I tried several times, then I called the 3 customer service. I told them I want use the phone with N800, and could not get through. Then they said, the Broadband service is not designed to work on bluetooth, you can only use with laptop via usb cable. Useless!
Then I had a search in Google, tried to find way to configure it manually. And here is the solution, you need to configure the phone connection manually, not wizard. First, pair the phone with N800 on bluetooth, then go to the N800 Connectivity setting. Connections -> New -> Next -> enter Connection name, choose Packet data -> enter "three.co.uk" as Assecc point name, "*99#" in Dail-up number, and leave others blank -> Next -> Finish
Now you can free your N800 with 3.5G mobile network.
