So I mentioned this in the 'my e-wang is better than your e-wang' phone thread, it's so cool I'm now giving it a thread of its own

JoikuSpot is a free application for S60 (v3+ I think) enabled smart phones that have both 3g and 802.11b/g/n wireless capabilities
Essentially anywhere you can get 3g you can turn your phone into a regular wireless access point so you can connect your laptop or iphone/PSP etc to the 'net

http://www.joikuspot.com/aboutJoikuSpot.php

Whitepaper - http://www.joikuspot.com/JoikuSpot_WhitePaper.pdf

Cool, so you can finally do using 802.11b what we could do with 802.16 (Bluetooth) five years ago.

^^^^ Iv been doing that for around 2 and half years with bluetooth.

wireless > bluetooth

Why? bluetooth works just fine and I never use my 3G connection away from my laptop.

Each to their own I guess, I spose it would be handy if your laptop doesnt have bluetooth

bluetooth has always just been a s***ful thing to setup imo, i've never used bluetooth for 'net access before
besides, wireless 'just works'

i did kind of forget about bluetooth when i created the thread, I still think its cool

It's ok teq I think it is cool

well he did mention using it for a PSP in the op, couldn't do that with bluetooth.

whats the other apple thing like an iphone?
they have wifi but no bluetooth

edit: itouch

thanks for all your support kids, its helping me get through a tough thread

Good points you raised with the PSP and itouch

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well he did mention using it for a PSP in the op, couldn't do that with bluetooth.

Well no, that's because PSPs are s***.

Don't worry, I (well actually, my brother) got sucked into the PSP hype too. Since Lumines got old, it's been collecting dust.

Also please note... if you have a HSDPA phone, 723kbit isn't really going to cut it for real wireless internet... And that's not even thinking about whatever overheads there might be to actually facilitate the bluetooth gateway.

Unless your HSDPA phone (Like mine) has bluetooth 2.0, which I think gives you up to 3mbps

I think the last speed test I did one my laptop using my phone as the gateway via bluetooth gave me around 230KB/s

seriously, are network cables that annoying?

RJ45 won't plug in to my phone.. no matter how hard i push.

i browse the net fine when i'm travelling with my HSDPA handset, sure its not cable but if you are expecting it to be anything like a dedicated connection you are an idiot anyway.

I simply stumbled across it because sometimes work will call me when im travelling and I need high speed 'net access, 3g is 'fast enough' but i really do need the laptop because I have to vpn in and they use usb-security tokens + i need remote desktop and such

its not meant to be a dedicated connection

So windows mobile 6 has been out for awhile, I updated my Tero 750 and WM6 smokes the s*** out of windows mobile 5, everything is way faster and my miniSD card dosen't disconnect anymore, on WM5 I had to reseed it all the time.

any one got a yay or nay ?

no but i know wm5 sarks

amen, WM6 all the way

wm6 is a big improvement.