{"id":405,"date":"2009-06-13T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/using-ntt-docomos-p906i-as-a-tethered-bluetooth-modem-for-internet-access-with-mac-osx-10-5-7\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T22:32:31","slug":"using-ntt-docomos-p906i-as-a-tethered-bluetooth-modem-for-internet-access-with-mac-osx-10-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/using-ntt-docomos-p906i-as-a-tethered-bluetooth-modem-for-internet-access-with-mac-osx-10-5-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Using NTT DoCoMo’s P906i as a tethered bluetooth modem for internet access with Mac OSX 10.5.7"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\nThis post saved my bacon and basically told me how to do things. In
\nJapanese.<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Finding
\nFinding your phone<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Access
\nAccess the internet with it<\/a><\/p>\n\n


\n\"Set
\nSet up the access information<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

\nSo say you have a nice phone, like the DoCoMo P906i<\/a>, and an
\nunlimited packet package<\/a> for your phone. (Hey, I do!)\n<\/p>\n

\nWouldn’t it be nice if you could use your phone for internet access
\nwith your computer? You know, what they call tethering? That sounds
\nsuper cool. Since my phone has bluetooth, it is theoretically
\npossible to have the phone in my bag, computer in my lap, and tell the
\ncomputer to connect to the phone then get to the internet that way.
\nIt turns out that this is possible.\n<\/p>\n

\nDoCoMo has a page (not that I can find it now) that says as long as
\nyou use your tethered computer for (light) web and email access they
\nwon’t get after you. They definitely say no file access though.
\nActually, it looks like they want you to join their
\nMopera<\/a> service which lets you access the internet on your computer.
\nIt works overseas as well.
\nIf you don’t you can use a separate
\ninternet access plan<\/a> for your phone, but it has a bunch of stuff
\nwritten there about needing to pay separate fees and to arrange for an
\ninternet provider. You can also just use FOMA<\/a> which is their standard
\ndata access plan as far as I know. I finally found
\nthe page that shows what you can use<\/a> and it looks pretty good. You
\ncan’t do streaming video, peer-to-peer, VOIP, and online games but
\nmost other stuff looks good (mail and web is what I am primarily
\ninterested in, but they make a point that flash videos are ok. Also
\nsystem update and some other stuff like that.) This page isn’t the
\none I found earlier this morning which had cute pictures of things
\nthat you could and couldn’t do, but it has the information, so that is
\ngood to know.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo, knowing that this is possible I was interested in doing it. First
\nup: my Mac. Why? Because I looked into doing it on linux initially
\nand that is super hard. So let’s see if Apple can get this right.\n<\/p>\n

\n

1.1 Pair your phone and OSX<\/h4>\n

\nThe easy part: set your computer up to talk to your phone.\n<\/p>\n

\nOpen up the Bluetooth Preferences control panel. Make sure that “On”
\nand “Discoverable” are checked.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn the P906i open up the Bluetooth control application. On my phone
\nthat is on the Menu button -> Life Kit -> Bluetooth. Click the Search
\nbutton (upper-left softkey, the mail key on my phone, \u30b5\u30fc\u30c1.) The
\nBluetooth devices in your area should show up. In my case, Blanka, my
\nMacBook Pro shows up, so I select it (center menu button) and it says
\nthat this device is not registered, would I like to register it? (\u672a
\n\u767b\u9332\u6a5f\u5668\u3067\u3059\u3000\u767b\u9332\u3057\u307e\u3059\u304b\uff1f) So of course I check the “YES” option.
\nIt then asks me for my phone’s password (\u7aef\u672b\u6697\u8a3c\u756a\u53f7\u306f\uff1f 4 digits,
\nenter your own) and asks to enter the bluetooth passkey.\n<\/p>\n

\nThen at that point I should be able to see a thing show up on the
\nMacBook, but it can not find it because the phone has not turned on
\nbluetooth yet. Really. So you can fix this by going to the 4th
\noption in the Bluetooth list (\u30c0\u30a4\u30e4\u30eb\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u767b\u9332\u5f85\u6a5f – wait for a
\ndial-up registration) then click the “+” button the Mac to add a
\ndevice. Have it search for phones (or any device) and when you see
\nyour device click it. It will take you to a screen saying that it
\nneeds to get some more information about your phone. Let it do that.
\nIt will probably time out and give you an error. Back to the phone,
\nput it back in the waiting for dial-up connection mode, then go back
\nand press the “continue” button.\n<\/p>\n

\nThen your phone will pop up a confirmation about a connection from
\nyour mac. Click yes, then it asks for your password, then the passkey
\nfor the bluetooth. The Mac should through up a passkey now. Enter
\nthat. If things go well, you get a screen that says “Access the
\nInternet with your phone’s data connection”. Make sure that is
\nchecked and click “Continue”.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt might ask you to store some stuff in the keychain, let it do that.
\nYou should get a screen that asks for your Phone Vendor. Select NTT
\nDoCoMo. The phone model, use “P\/FxxxiX (Bluetooth)”. For Username
\nand Password you can use anything I believe. Probably best to keep
\nboth less than 8 characters and no special characters. For “Phone
\nNumber” enter “*99***1#”. Apparently when you are overseas “*99***3#”
\nshould work. I like to keep the modem and bluetooth icons in the menu
\nfor easy access. Click continue, then Quit. You are done!\n<\/p>\n

\nTo start the internet connection, click the modem icon in the menu bar
\nand “Connect Bluetooth”. Keep your phone handy if you need to do
\nsomething there. For me I didn’t have to do anything. The phone just
\nwent into a magic bridge mode. Seems to work ok.\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to Speedtest.jp<\/a> my phone connection is like, a Skateboard
\nlevel. Good for small movies. Maybe. A bit faster than ISDN but
\nthat’s about it. It says 301k. Checking with Speedtest.net<\/a> which is
\na better tester, it says 357 ms ping, 0.35 Mb\/s download and 0.24 Mb\/s
\nupload. I seem to see from 10 KB\/sec to 40 KB\/sec in this super short
\nuse, so that sounds reasonable to me.\n<\/p>\n

\nJust for comparison, on my Fiber connection, I get a 12ms ping, 35.71
\nMb\/s download, 18.77 Mb\/s upload.\n<\/p>\n


\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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