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* [Bluez-users] bluetooth tethering to at&t phone issues
@ 2008-08-10 23:23 Jared Kidd
  2008-08-11  9:09 ` Brad Midgley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jared Kidd @ 2008-08-10 23:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bluez-users


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I have been tethering internet through my at&t cell phone for over a year
using bluetooth PAN (old daemon way as I can't find ANY documentation on how
to do it the new way). Recently it started acting a little flaky. any
streaming videos would stop after the first few seconds, emerge sync would
either take forever to get started or stop halfway, and downloading any
larger files would fail. I recently renewed my contract and got a new phone
(blackjack ii), thinking it was the old phone as it would get very hot. The
issue persists and has gotten worse to the point that it is unusable. Now,
browsing/email still works fine. Streaming videos and it seems any sustained
download fails. If I attempt to start an emerge sync it will seem to halt
ALL internet traffic, same thing with other high traffic things - ALL
internet traffic halts. and I either have to wait a few minutes or reboot
the phone and connect all over again to get it working again.

I have noticed that when this all stops working, I can still ping the phones
ip address just fine, I just can't get anywhere past it. So it seems the
bluetooth connection between the phone and computer still works just fine.

I then started thinking that it may be some blocking technique at&t has
implemented to stop people from torrenting/downloading lots of stuff on
their 3g network and am about to cancel the internet plan as it is unusable.


Then a coworker of mine told me he has no problems with tethering at all.
Youtube works, downloading works, and he can even torrent.

So I decided to do something I hardly ever do - boot into windows XP and
connect through my phone the same exact way. And guess what.....IT WORKS
FINE!

Can anyone offer any explaination? I'll have to try my wifes ubuntu box and
see if it has the same issues as mine. It just seems very odd that it works
fine in windows but not in linux, and that in linux when internet stops
working I can still ping my phone.

Is it possible that at&t has some way to see if I am using a non-windows OS
and then screw up the connection? Or could it be a bluetooth PAN issue in
linux?

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2008-08-10 23:23 [Bluez-users] bluetooth tethering to at&t phone issues Jared Kidd
2008-08-11  9:09 ` Brad Midgley
2008-08-11 21:24   ` [Bluez-users] Inquiry result with RSSI (From Newbie) thanit sara
2008-08-11 21:46   ` thanit sara
2008-08-14  9:58   ` [Bluez-users] bluetooth tethering to at&t phone issues Xamindar
2008-08-15 18:14     ` Xamindar
2008-08-19  4:02       ` jayjwa

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