Internet sharing between cellphone and computer us...

I have watched some videos in youtube about internet sharing between cellphones and computer using "BLUETOOTH"... How do they do that? How can we do this? Anybody here can share to us how to do this??

24-Aug-2008 12:28 PM
monkeyboy85 wrote:
I personally would not of thaught this is possible as bluetooth is essentially just a radio signal, obviously it can transmit data but i dont think it has the ability to stream a broadband connection. Could be completely wrong but thats what i think.
You are wrong
Most Nokia phones with a bluetooth interface can let you connect your computer to the Internet using your phone as a modem connected by bluetooth. So, BT definitely can support the data stream.
Enabling a computer to use the phone's Internet connection over BT or via USB cable is possible with no additional software on the phone. Doing the opposite, allowing the phone to use the computer's Internet connection via BT, requires additional software. GNUBox does just that.
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Andrew Taylor9 wrote:
I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard and a Toshiba Laptop running Windows 7. >I cannot for the life of me figure out how to share files between the two.
I've got SMB sharing turned on in System Preferences, and I think I've got >Windows7 set up correctly, but really, who the **** knows?
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Why is this so hard? I've even got Bonjour for Windows installed, but after running the installer there's no sign of the app anywhere on the laptop. >Searching for it turns up zero results.
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