Source: www.havethat.co.uk

I have been looking for a cheap and seamless way to connect to the internet on my ASUS Eee with the minium of equipment and no hassle.

I considered internal HSDPA but eventually decided on this method to avoid modding my Eee and save on cost (data is cheaper as an addon to my t-mobile contract than as a seperate contract).

My configuration consists of

• ASUS Eee - 4gb SSD, 2gb of RAM & 4gb SDHC, running Windows XP.
• Nokia E51 - Fairly small, neat phone with HSDPA and Bluetooth (and Exchange Activesync Support).
• Cirago BTA310 - Micro USB BT dongle, small enough to never be removed from EEE, this could be modded inside the EEE.

This is setup with a dial up connection called HSDPA using the virtual bluetooth modem (drivers with windows, no third party software is used). Connecting to the internet required nothing more than dialing the HSDPA connection. No interaction is required on the nokia since you can authorise the laptop to be allowed to connect without the phone prompting.

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