Tether your high-speed Windows Mobile phone to a laptop Video

Tether your high-speed Windows Mobile phone to a laptop Video Transcript

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>>Hey everyone, I'm Mark Licea for CNET.com. Today I'm going to show you a way to take advantage of your Smart Phone's high speed data connection and tether it to a laptop over Bluetooth. It'll allow you to browse the internet anywhere you get cell phone service. All that on this Insider Secret.

>>Right now this only works with phones using Windows Mobile so make sure that your phone is running the latest version that it can support. First thing you'll want to do is pair your phone with your laptop. For Macs go to Bluetooth preferences in the upper right corner of the menu bar so you can add the phone through the set up assistant. In Windows Vista you'll need to locate your Bluetooth Manager and add a new connection. This process usually involves typing in a numerical passkey so that the laptop and the phone can talk to each other. Once you've got your phone paired up with your laptop go to internet sharing on your mobile phone, select Bluetooth pen as the PC connection regardless of whether it's a Mac or a PC and then hit connect. The phone should then connect to your high-speed data service. Next, head over to your laptop and tell it to connect to the Bluetooth pen network on the phone that you just paired it to. And you should be ready to go. Try and connect to a website using the browser on the laptop. If it connects, you've done it. You're now using your cell phone to connect to the internet, but be warned though, this uses a lot of data so only attempt this if you have an unlimited data plan, and the latency can be kind of high when you're browsing so it might not be the speediest experience in the world. Thanks for watching, I'm Mark Licea with CNET.com. ^E00:01:34