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Go between device for Cingular 2125 wifi ?

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Edward - 15 May 2007 02:41 GMT
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 - 15 May 2007 05:58 GMT
> 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 - 15 May 2007 15:18 GMT
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

>> I have my phone configured when I plug it into my laptop via USB, I
>> get internet.
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>
>Or am I not understanding (at all) what you're trying to accomplish?
Todd Allcock - 15 May 2007 16:48 GMT
> 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 - 16 May 2007 22:38 GMT
> 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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