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Who tethters there LG CU500 to a PDA??
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Posted by: KlamshellKing

How fast is it?? Im considering doing this... i just dont want to carry around three devices for a phone, pda, and mp3player... so is it really that fast? is it as fast as wifi? what pda are you using?

Posted by: KlamshellKing

Anyone?????

Posted by: aaadock

i tried it.. but i keep getting " host comp has disconnected you .. "

Posted by: KlamshellKing

im sure someone else has tried it...

Posted by: KlamshellKing

any input...

Posted by: ropucha66

Works great with hp HX4700.

Posted by: cjmedina

tried with my qtek but got nothing

Posted by: kevink1

I plan to try it, having just received the CU500 Thursday. Decided to try with laptop first, and it was failing. But I can't even connect from my phone today, so there must be a Cingular problem.

Posted by: netdiva

I have connected using my LG CU500 and Dell Axim X51V using bluetooth.

Posted by: kevink1

I finally connected today with my Dell X50v and the LG CU500. Took hours because there network problems, data kept on going away, or it would work just long enough to test it on the phone, then fail with the computer.

Posted by: killadingo

I was able to connect my LG CU500 to an old HP iPaq h1945. The procedure wasn't exactly the same as that listed for the current lower end HP WM pda but I somehow got the networking configured properly.

Posted by: kevink1

Did some tethering this morning. Noticably faster than my V557, which has a lower Edge class, so doesn't use as many time slots. Noticable, even though the Axim only supports up to 115K, which should be below even the V557's speed.

Posted by: evaunit00

Works great with my hx4700. I generally get around 450-500 down. I used this page: http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=919&catid=80 for most of the settings, with the exception being that you also have to fill in the username and password boxes in the connection settings.

Posted by: jaxkewl

Quote:

Originally Posted by kevink1

I finally connected today with my Dell X50v and the LG CU500. Took hours because there network problems, data kept on going away, or it would work just long enough to test it on the phone, then fail with the computer.

can you please explain how u did this? i can't figure it out. the dell axim is asking for a phone # and user name and pass. how do i do this?

Posted by: kevink1

A google search would show that the number is *99#, username of WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM, and password of CINGULAR1

Posted by: only1chip

There are detailed instructions here:

https://onlinecare.cingular.com/support/setupOTW.do

But as has been mentioned here, use username of WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM

Also, it's been pointed out to me that the dialing strings spec'd on the cingular site are unnessisary.

I tether a hx4700 with excellent results:
When I have a 3G connection data rates are 350 - 500 kbps
Even when I drop back to EDEG(2G), it's still twice as fast as my old EDGE phone at over 120kbps most of the time (higher class EDGE support).

I use: www.dslreports.com/mspeed to measure the speed...

Posted by: Trivialist

I've been able to tether my CU500 to my Palm TX, but I'm getting terrible performance from it, even in G3 coverage. I'm only getting 72kbps according to dslreports.com, and I know it should be 4 or 5 times that fast. Can anyone help me out and tell me why the performance is so poor?

Posted by: flynhi

You'll also need a dialing string in the connection properties on the PDA. I use the following:

+cgdcont=1,,"wap.cingular"

This info can be found on the Cingular's support page under the CU500 and "connecting laptop/pda for internet use".

Posted by: kevink1

Quote:

Originally Posted by flynhi

You'll also need a dialing string in the connection properties on the PDA. I use the following:

+cgdcont=1,,"wap.cingular"

This info can be found on the Cingular's support page under the CU500 and "connecting laptop/pda for internet use".

Does this only apply in 3G markets? I don't use these strings in my Edge areas, and it has worked fine for me. CU500 is noticably more reliable, and a little faster, than the V557 for data. Too bad voice connection quality is worse.

Posted by: flynhi

Actually, looks like it doesn't apply to EDGE. I just tethered my laptop using NO dialing string on cingular EDGE network (using LG CU500, and wap.cingular APN and wap@cingulargprs.com user name), and my data speed actually went up slightly compared to when I had the dialing string in there. I was downloading at 23 k/sec, thats like 200-250 kbps connection. That is really good with EDGE. When I get back in town tonight, I'm going to try connecting to the 3G network with no dialing string, and see if that helps. I'm using the LG CU500, and have had big problems tethering when I'm attached to a 3G network; web sites take a LONG time to come up, and about 50% of the time the page times out and won't even come up. After about 30 minutes of trying differnet websites, finally got to one that I could test a download, and was getting about 40 k/sec on the downloads on 3G. But the service was completely unreliable, some web pages came fast, others never loaded up at all. Some come up really slow. It was a pain. But on EDGE, i'm not experiencing any of these probs. It will be interesting to see if taking the dialing string out helps with the 3G connection. I'll post here tomorrow and let you all know.

Posted by: flynhi

I tried 3g with no dialing string, works just fine, doesn't fix my slow data connection speed and responce time while using my CU500 tethered.