Droid dialup

[Big Cam]

Don't deny the man his right to AOL via dial-up!

:icon_ poke:

I almost miss getting those CD's in the mail.

I am pretty sure you can pay an extra $30 a month to Verizon to be able to tether legit, but that was on BB.

 

[gruve]

This thread made me chuckle. Dialup to a smart phone... :icon_ rofl:

 

[garetmax]

Droid for dialup on my laptop

I found this older thread and want to do something similar so wondered if this situation is possible.

I have Trane HVAC building management software on my laptop which has an internal 56k modem.
I have ATT U-verse at home for my phone connection.
When at home, I plug my phone line into my laptop, fire up the software and dial out to different jobsites which have analog modems in the building management controllers.

Would I be able to do this when I wasn't at home but using the Droid as a modem instead?

I downloaded PDAnet but couldn't get the connection working.

Please let me know.
Thanks

 

[loosecannon39]

Sorry, but all the experts I consulted, say it can't be made to work. There are too many differences in the analog and digital systems involved to sort out the problems.
DAN

(PS) The PDA net gave me trouble as a modem also. It turned out to be the usb drivers. I found mine in windows xp sp3. Hope this helps.

 

[moggyman]

why, because i have no data plan!

I really don't know anything about tethering other then I read you can't do it with Verizon. If I'm wrong don't worry, someone will correct me shortly.

:frown:

 

[castirondude]

actually there are many parts of the country where dialup is still the only viable option. Then the choice is either $10 a month for dialup or $400 a month for T1. Which one would you pick?

Dialup WAS always possible on Verizon, I have an old Audiovox phone that was before a "data plan" even existed. It came with a "mobile office kit" that has a USB cable and Windows software. You have to have a dial-up account, and you can call that number with the phone. The speed was 19200 or 14400, one of the two, I don't remember now. It uses your minutes, so you get unlimited usage in the evening, and possibly if you have a friends & family plan you can get truly unlimited usage. I worked on a software project back in 2005, in a remote area and we used the phone to make a "wifi mobile hotspot" before that term was even invented. It was enough to sync our code repositories and do some emergency web searches. Back in those days you installed some software on your pc to create some fake web traffic so your ISP wouldn't drop your connection if it went idle...

So, it is possible, although probably no longer implemented in any modern phone..

 

[castirondude]

actually the reason I found this thread is because I wouldn't mind losing the $25 a month 3G data plan in favor of using a few minutes of dialup for my phone to sync email once every 20 minutes, then use wifi for the rest.

 

[vatothe0]

Verizon ended the availability of circuit switched data several years ago and is all packet switched now. Now you'd have to use something that interfaces through an actual phone call and you'd be lucky to even connect much less transfer any data.
More info: Packet-Switched vs. Circuit-Switched Networks - Computerworld