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Activating Internet Connection sharing on your Windows Mobile device

To activate Internet Connection sharing on your device, you have to do the following.

This functionality was introduced with Windows Mobile 5 AKU3, devices with older versions of the operating system depend on dial-up networking, which also works great. Please refer to that section when you have an older device.

Please note that your exchange administrator can block this functionality from Exchange 2007 when using a Windows Mobile 6.1 and above device.

Please make sure you first have bonded or paired your device with your laptop.

Please keep in mind that the following you have to do, EVERY time you want to connect to the internet with your laptop. There are no tricks known to us to make this easier or faster.

To fire up internet connection sharing, you start with selecting "Internet Sharing" from your program files.

Starting Internet Connection Sharing

After you have opened Internet Connection Sharing, you can start by selecting the correct communication medium (you need "Bluetooth PAN") and the correct network connection.

Internet Connection Sharing setup screen

You can basically select any kind of network connection you wish to share. This can be any internet connection (for example a GPRS connection).

After selecting the appropriate way of connecting and service, you can press the left softkey marked "connect" to activate the service.


Comments

Don't have internet sharing?

by paul fishman, Monday 07 of April, 2008 [00:33:49 UTC]
I have a HP iPAQ 6945 with WM 5.1.195 (Build 14989.2.6.0) Based on the info on this site, this WM version looks like it's newer than AKU3, but internet sharing is not on-board. Is there any way to add internet sharing, or am I just out of luck?

Thanks, and I'm glad I found this site.

Paul

Re: Don't have internet sharing?

by Jaap van Ekris, Monday 07 of April, 2008 [08:18:41 UTC]
Hi Paul,

I think the Ipaq is a Windows Mobile 5 AKU 2 device. The 2 after the build number (i.e. 2.6.0) indicates this. Could you check if the "old way" works for you?

Jaap
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