I successfully set-up my Macbook to connect to the internet using a mobile phone as a 3G modem. While the connection works, I noticed that it is terribly slow. When I do the same thing with my other laptop (running Ubuntu Linux) it runs pretty fast.
The mobile phone runs Window Mobile 6.1.
Is there anything I can tweak?
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Try running speedtest.net tests on just the phone, then in OSX and see if it actually is running slower. Depending on your connection, it may just seem to be slow.
Also, is your phone actually 3G? WinMo 6.1 is pretty old now and would point to an older phone. If you're 2G, at best your gonna get 200-500kb/s on the phone and then it has to bridge it to your laptop which has some (low) overhead too. -
The phone is a Samsung B7320 Omnia Pro. It is 3G (HSDPA 7.2 MBPS/HSUPA 2MBPS) the connection though is only at 2MBPS.
Cannot get speedtest.net to run on either mobile brower I have (IE and Opera Mini).
Macbook PAN internet connection
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ral, Jan 6, 2011.