How to access internet on LAN using bluetooth and Pocket PC

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 06:43:14 GMT

Looking through some archives of some of my blog entries and organizing how-to stuff and links for the Pocket PC. I remember having a few struggles trying to access the internet thorugh our LAN using bluetooth on our iPAQ Pocket PC. Here is a complete, step-by-step walkthrough originally posted here on January 16, 2004:

STEP 1. Install Activesync. This should have come with your Pocket PC software on the target PC (which is already working on your LAN).
STEP 2. Install the Bluetooth USB Adaptor software.
STEP 3. Insert the USB Adaptor into the USB port on the target PC when required in STEP 2.

STEP 4. Determine the COM port for the bluetooth SERIAL. This can be found in the Windows Device Manager. You can locate the Device Manager by going to START-->CONTROL PANEL --> SYSTEM. Choose HARDWARE and then click the Device Manager. Then click on the Ports and you should see the Bluetooth COM ports. On my machine it was COM 4.

STEP 5. Run the Activesync software and choose FILE-->Connection Settings. Make sure that only the first and last checkboxes are set. First checkbox should read: "Allow serial cable or infrared connection to this COM port:" in the dropdown menu - this should be set to the COM port in STEP 4 (in my case this was COM port 4). The last checkbox should read "Show status icon in Taskbar". DO NOT CHECK the other checkboxes.

STEP 6. Turn on your Pocket PC and make sure that Bluetooth is turned on. For the Pocket PC I was using a flashing blue light indicates that Bluetooth is turned on and enabled.

STEP 7. Start the Bluetooth Neighborhood software and see that both the target PC and Pocket PC are discovered.

STEP 8. Create an Activesync link on the Pocket PC. This link can be created under the Bluetooth Manager. It will guide you through a series of screens where you click NEXT and then choose the target PC. If you get an connection failed, you might need to soft reset the Pocket PC (I did). A soft reset can be accomplished by inserting a pin or some other tiny object into the side hole on the Pocket PC. Then try to create an Activesync link again.

I took some pictures of the Pocket PC surfing this space which I'll add to a new Pocket PC slideshow area a little later.

Spaced out TD: Pocket PC

How to access internet on LAN using bluetooth and Pocket PC