internet

[emmie]

i have a new mobile phone with wifi, the guy in the phone shop says i can link the mobile to my computer so can access internet on mobile, he reckons for free, i don't think so. his advice was you go into your isp account, put in password then look up wifi, type in your mobile number. Can anyone understand this, or tell me if that is or isn't possible. I would think that it is something you pay for. I have a pay as you go mobile

[emmie]

any techies around this morning, perhaps having a lie in, could help, it's not urgent so much just would be interested if this is true, possible.

[commoner]

Not sure what you are saying here...my phone with wifi connects automatically to any wifi hotspot which is free or to any wireless connection for which I have the password...this includes my own wireless modem at home....

Is your internet connection wireless...if not then I dunno...

[EvianBaby]

Em, before someone comes and tells you off, you missed some critical info. (what phone do you have) :)

[beso]

Your mobile phone can act as an internet gateway for the computer. They connect together by WiFi (or Bluetooth if the computer has it).

It isn't really free because it uses the internet capactity that is part of your mobile phone plan. Go over your allowance and they will charge like wounded bulls.

You need to turn on the wifi hotsopt on your phone. It will tell you the password. Then go to Networking in your computer and add a new wifi connection. The computer will find the phone and ask you for the password.

If you need more help then Google "tethering".

[beso]

I reread your question. Sorry I have explained the reverse where the computer uses the phones internet connection.

What you want won't work unless your computer can provide a wifi hotspot. Generally you connect your phone to the wifi ohotspot on your router which of course must have wifi capability. Then the phone uses your internet connection just as would be done on a laptop.

Just turn on wifi on your phone and it will find the hotspot from your router. Then put in the password that your router provides for connection.

[beso]

It may also be that your ISP allows you to connect the phone directly to your existing account. If so just do what the guys says.

Of course it isn't free but the traffic will be metered as part of your internet plan.

[RATTER15]

Well not exactly free as you are paying for your broadband on your PC. you just access your broadband via your router so you dont pay additional charges for using your phone while in range of the WiFi on your router.

[Zacs-Master]

.....It isn't really free because it uses the internet capactity that is part of your mobile phone plan.....
Incorrect. It doesn't use any of your allowance as it is using your home system (or relative hot spot)'s Internet connection.

[squarebear]

It's like connecting a wireless laptop. Just search for wireless connections and connect using your wireless password.

[emmie]

have internet wireless connection. samsung phone with wifi.

[RATTER15]

So you are sorted, when you are at home you can use your phone without paying a penny extra for your internet on your phone as long "as you are connected to your router."

[commoner]

Just turn on wifi on your phone and it should list all available hotspots including your own router...choose yours from the list and try to get online...you will be asked for the password... give the same password that you have for your computer/laptop and you should be good to go as they say these days...

[beso]

Zacs-Master .....It isn't really free because it uses the internet capactity that is part of your mobile phone plan.....
Incorrect. It doesn't use any of your allowance as it is using your home system (or relative hot spot)'s Internet connection. //

If you actually bothered to read the whole set of my posts you would realise that I was describing a different arrangement and corrected in the following post.

As for the rest of you, have you considered that it *might* be possible to add a phone to a computer's wireless internet plan? That appears to be what the salesman was describing and the description of my third post. If it isn't actually possible it would make sense for ISP to consider its potential.

Odds are however that the system is the common garden variety use of a wifi network from a router.

[Old_Geezer]

If you connect via your mobile service provider then it would not be free. And your provider may have rules about connecting a PC as opposed to just getting Internet access on your handset.

If you connect via a WiFi hotspot I'd have thought there were easier dongle type connections you could use, rather than using a mobile handset.