Comments on: three (UK) – N96 3G internet over bluetooth on OSX

By: Angus Bradley

Angus Bradley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:47:51 +0000

I found 3g on 3 really slow, and thought it was 3's fault.
Then I tried Ross Barkman's scripts at http://www.taniwha.org.uk/. The speed went from 50kb/s to 450kb/s… I'll post a screenshot on my blog

By: Aleksander

Aleksander — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:06:39 +0000

Any hint on how to do it in Ubuntu? Is there a simple GUI tool for that?

By: Mattj

Mattj — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:23:40 +0000

I think that the 3internet is for use if you buy the broadband addon. I have internet max, connecting through just the '3'(three.co.uk) access point. My n95 came with just the 2, '3' and 3mms. I will give enabling 3internet when I can get in an area with some coverage :p

Also, it is just as easy to connect on intrepid, plug in the phone, network manager asks for the network and it just works. Much better than it used to be.

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:18:12 +0000

@Marius – right, I'll post my adventures once I have them

@Mattj – Thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind. This works well enough for the majority of cases in which I don't want to fiddle around with wires though.

@Alan – I get errors about it being unable to negotiate with the PPP server when using 3internet sadly. Thanks for the hint about DNS – I'll set that when I next use it.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:56:33 +0000

according to the technical chaps at three apparently 3internet is supposed to be faster and has no filtering. three.co.uk has more filtering (ports and porn I think) and might be slower. 3Internet doesn't seem to work for me on pre-pay sim cards though. Another thing to point out is to use static DNS. Every so often the DHPC server (or possibly the Huawei firmware) gives you 10.11.12.13 which is totally bogus.

By: Mattj

Mattj — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:46:30 +0000

It is advisable to connect it over usb, bluetooth can't handle the bandwidth for hsdpa.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:36:21 +0000

I admit that it would have been much more interesting to me to read about the same thing on Ubuntu. Currently I have that capability, but I got it by handcrafting plain-text configuration files in /etc/ppp and /etc/chatscripts, which are a bit inconvenient. Isn't there an easier way?