USB Cell Phone Drivers – Use your phone to connect to the internet

AKA: How to use your phone to connect to the world wide web, general internet, email and etc.?

The long and short is this:

(THESE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR VERIZON WIRELESS CELL PHONES TO ACCESS THE INTERNET.  Your network might work differently.)

1. Buy the right cable to connect your phone to the PC from ebay

2. Come here and download the right driver for your phone

 3. Create the Dial Up connection.  For Windows do the following.

1. My Computer
2. Select My network places (look on the left for the link)
3. Select View network connections (also on the left)
4. Click Create new connection
5. Choose Connect to the network at my workplace (this is the one that says VPN in the description.  That’s what you want.  Select it and click NEXT.  DO NOT SELECT “CONNECT TO THE INTERNET” IT WON’T WORK.
6. Then choose Dial Up Connection.
7. Type in a name you will remember.  Call it “Cell Phone” or “Verizon” or whatever and click next.
8. Enter the correct phone number – for Verizon this is #777

4. Go to “Network connections” and double click on the dial up link you just created.

5. Enter VZW for both the username and password

6. Save it and dial. 

You should be in.  Your connection will be lost if you don’t use it frequently and you’ll need to dial out again.

This driver list was snagged directly from http://hk.smscaster.com/download_driver_usb_data_cable.htm

That way it won’t be lost when I need it later… So, now I can use my laptop and get online through my cellphone from anywhere – at no extra charge (beyond the use of my free minutes). It’s not FAST broadband but it is fast enough to support a remote desktop session to my home PC. Dropping down to 256 colors makes it work even better.

On verizon, setup a dial into a VPN make the phone number #777 and the password & username should be VZW. TBH I don’t think the username and PW matter.