Share the cell data?

August 12, 2012 7:29 PM

How best to share my Internet connection from my Nokia E63 S60 to my iPad?

I have Walmart Family Mobile which includes very reasonable Internet access rates and want to share it. WFM is rebranded T-Mobile USA. Actually I'd like to buy a pocket modem to share the cell data and use this with another line but hey, they don't offer it.

posted by usermac to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Have you tried JoikuSpot?

http://www.joiku.com/
posted by Thisispiggy at 8:17 PM on August 12, 2012 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: I'll try it thanks.
posted by usermac at 4:05 AM on August 13, 2012

If you can tether the iPad to the E63 with Bluetooth, it will use much less power than WiFi. JoikuSpot is a battery hog. It won't be very fast. The E63 doesn't do 3G on T-Mobile. If at&t has decent coverage where you are, you could do Straight Talk with the at&t SIM instead of WFM and get 3G speed. (or switch to a phone that does 3G on T-Mobile, like the E6 if you want to stick with Symbian and the same form factor) There is a 2GB data cap, though.
posted by wierdo at 9:37 AM on August 13, 2012