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So… you’re going on holiday. You’re going to a press event. You’re going to a conference. What ever it is you’re bound to find a time where WiFi is unavailable and browsing the net on your iPhone just won’t do it.

Here’s a how to to get you going. These are instructions for a Mac running OS X Leopard. It should work fine with Tiger and maybe even older OSs.

Turn on bluetooth and choose to setup a new bluetooth device. When you’re done make sure you add you’re Laptop as an ‘authorised’ device or something similar on your phone. This isn’t essential but just makes things simpler.

Select your device in the Bluetooth window (system preferences) and select the configure menu (next to add and remove) and select edit serial ports. Select Dial Up Networking and choose to add to network connections. Hit apply.

Go to network preferences and you’ll see the new connection device. Enter your username and password. For example O2 is o2wap and password. Click advanced and then choose your phone’s model and then GPRS. Enter the APN for example O2 is wap.o2.co.uk.

Go to the proxies tab and enter 193.113.200.195 for HTTP and 8080 for the port. You can do the same for HTTPS. Click Ok.

Hit connect and you should see the bluetooth icon light up (or something similar) and then the GPRS do the same thing. (EDGE in some cases).

Enjoy browsing!

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