Dasher on OpenMoko?

[Pierre Hébert]

Hi,

On Friday 29 February 2008, Charles Edward Pax wrote:
> Is it possible to use a mobile phone to dial in to a dialup number
> I can use with a regular modem? My university has free dialup access
> and my mobile phone operator gives me unlimited minutes on evenings
> and weekends. I don't want to spend the extra money on a data plan,
> but I would like to have internet access on the go. I've tried to set
> this up with the phone I currently have, but it doesn't work.
>
> I suspect that it could be some sort of locked feature. I would
> purchase a new phone if it meant this would work. My ideal situation
> is to connect my powerbook to my mobile phone via bluetooth and
> connect my phone to my university via a regular dialup number. Any
> information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Yes it is possible to use a GSM phone as modem and connect to the 
internet through PPP, and mgetty+sendfax at the other end. There are 
some howto on the subject, I started a small one at 
http://www.pierrox.net/bluetooth_ppp/. Your phone must provide this 
functionnality, not all phones enable this.
However it won't be more than 9600bps. Such a slow rate is barely enough 
to read text emails, in general web pages are too heavy for 9600bps, and 
for example lots of images cannot be downloaded because of timeout. Also 
with this setup the ping is around 800/1000ms. 
However if you are patient and have unlimited minutes, it is certainly 
quite a good/cheap setup for basic internet tasks like ssh.

Regards,

Pierre.