Palm TREO PRO - Using your device as a modem

YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES
USING YOUR DEVICE AS A MODEM
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Using your device as
a modem
You can use your smartphone as a modem
to connect your computer to the Internet.
Depending on your wireless service
provider, the program you use to do this is
either Internet Sharing or Wireless Modem
(WModem).
Press Start and select Programs, and
then check to see whether you have
Internet Sharing or WModem. Use the
procedure for the application on your
device.
Internet Sharing
Internet Sharing is a feature that converts
your smartphone into a modem.
You can set up Internet Sharing in one of
two ways:
• Connect your smartphone to your
computer with the USB cable.
• If your computer is enabled with
Bluetooth wireless technology, set up
your smartphone as a wireless modem,
using the built-in Bluetooth technology.
Setting up a USB Internet Sharing
connection
BEFORE YOU BEGIN If you have a
Windows XP computer and you
synchronize your smartphone with
ActiveSync
®
desktop software on your
computer using the USB cable, you must
disable the ActiveSync USB connection.
Open the ActiveSync window on your
computer, select File > Connection
Settings, and uncheck the Allow USB
connections box.
1 Connect your smartphone to your
computer, using the USB cable.
2 Make sure that the phone on your Treo
Pro is turned on and that one of the data
services icons ( or ) appears at
the top of the screen. (If you don’t see
either of these icons, then you cannot
use your smartphone as a modem.)
3 On your smartphone, press Start
and select Programs.