Workable solution to Lumia 800 no tethering?

OK so I bought a Lumia 800 on a 2 year contract from Three (UK) without doing my homework. (All smartphones tether, right? )
Having realised my mistake I should have taken it straight back and swapped it for something else which supports tethering, but foolishly didn't, as I was reading that a tethering s/w update will be out early in 2012. So I hung onto it.
Now it's finally dawning on me there ain't no tethering update, I've screwed up big time and need to find another way to get mobile broadband for my laptop. I could buy a dongle, but it grieves me that I have already signed up to this Three 'all you can eat' data plan which is sitting there going to waste.
Now for slightly more than the dongle, I could purchase a PAYG Nokia C2-01 from Three. My idea is to get that and put my contract Three sim into it and use it as a USB modem from the laptop (*99#).
Can anyone forsee any problems doing this? I'm assuming the PAYG phone will just work with my contract sim as they are both from the same company, and of course I'm assuming that the C2-01 does function as a modem (this is the mistake I made with the Lumia!!).
If this works then long-term it's cheaper than paying for a separate data dongle.
thanks,
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1390272 wrote:
93tid wrote:
1390272 wrote:
As the originator of this thread I have to point out that my original question _was_ answered but not by 'kevgallacher'. He answered a different question entirely, so how did his post get marked as the solution to my question? If he did this himself then I find this rather high-handed. It was '93tid' who actually answered the **question I posted** in reply #3.
The way the forum works is that only the person who started the thread can mark a post as a solution, so kevgallacher could not do that himself.
Well I certainly did not mark 'kevgallacher''s reply as the solution so it *must* have been someone else!
[.... I should add as clarification that I did mark '93tid's post as the solution ...]

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Hi all,
Thanks again for your feedback. Could you try to do the following;
Disable Wi-Fi on the Lumia so it only has a Mobile data connection.
Disable Wi-Fi access on the laptop
Enable Internet sharing on the Lumia
Enable Wi-Fi access on the laptop then find and connect to the Lumia access point.
If you do not get internet access on the laptop please send me a personal mail with the following data:
Phone carrier and country
Laptop brand and model
Used operating system (including any service packs!)
The speed of the connection from Wireless Network Connection Status on the PC
The following settings for the Interface on the PC (Wireless Network Connection Status>Details)
IPv4 address
IPv4 Default Gateway
IPv4 DHCP server
IPv4 DNS Server
I will forward these toward the investigation.
Kosh
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I asked google but did't get answer.
1. Can I use lumia as modem for laptop with windows XP? (via USB cable or bluetooth)? How?
2. Can I use lumia as modem for laptop with Linux? (usb or bluetooth)? How?
If somethere this topic is covered - it would be nice if someone can point me link.
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Answer to both 1 & 2 is no, not at the moment, but rumour has it , thet there will be an update for the Lumia 800 within the next couple of weeks that will allow tethering
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As long as your phone doesn't show up a provider logo... I don't think it is considered "branded".
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Dear All
I have a question about email accounts on the Lumia 800.
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Clockit.
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Personally I have three email acounts on my Lumia, just pin them to the homescreen and send from the one that recieves the mail, if Iwant to share a picture for example I get a list of all my social media sites and all my email accounts to send it with ?
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You are posting to a user to user support forum here and not contact ing Nokia Care. If the 800 will not start anymore and you have done all you say you have done it's likely the battery needs to be replaced.
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Nokia Lumia 800 won't update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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Picture of "Connect to PC" screen attached.
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Hi
What country is you Live ID associated with? What language is your device set to and what region is your device set to?
Make sure all these settings are the same.
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Set password for messaging lumia 800

hi,
i have a nokia lumia 800 with windows phone 7.8.
there is a way or application that can set password for messaging, when I or another person want to acces "messaging" it must to insert password, a pin with 4 digits for example.
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Nah, buddy. It's not possible on the phone.
Most of the applications I found in the Marketplace allow sending of encrypted messages in which recipient needs to decrypt, but you can check the Marketplace yourself. I may miss one that suits what you need: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/search?q=message+password
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