For a mysterious reason T-mobile never tell their blackberry customers that they can use the blackberry device as a modem to access the Internet from a laptop or PC. But as you are about to read the blackberry can be actually configured to be a modem to connect to the Internet using the laptop.
This can be easily done using the T-mobile DASH ( Check link Below) but on the blackberry there are some configurations you need to do. Please note that I have tested this on a T-mobile blackberry Curve, Perl, and blackberry 8800. But from what I have read, the procedure is almost the same for blackberry users with different carriers.
How to Setup Internet Sharing on T-Mobile Dash
To successfully connect to the Internet on your laptop using the blackberry as a modem, you need to have the Blackberry Desktop Manager software installed on your computer, and be connected to the blackberry.
Then right Click on My Computer and go to Manage. once you get to the Computer Management console, click on Device Manager. click on the + sign, next to the Modems icon:
Right-click on Standard Modem and go to Properties. ( if you don’t see the standard modem on the list, you need to create one. leave a comment to give you the instructions)
When the modem property window comes up, click on the Advanced tab and type the following command on the Extra settings window:
+cgdcont=1,”IP”,” wap.voicestream.com”
Click OK and close out of all the windows. Now, right-click on My Networking Places icon and go to properties, when the network connections window comes up, click on Create a new connection:
Follow the wizard. click next on the following window. choose Connect to the Internet on the following screen. choose Setup my connection manually on the next screen. select Connect using a dial-up Modem, and click next .
On the next screen, choose the modem we configured above:
Once the Standard Modem is checked, click on Next. On the next screen type Blackberry Modem as the ISP name. Click Next. As a phone number type *99# on the next screen. Choose to use the connection for yourself only, click next.
On the next screen, uncheck, Make this the default Internet connection, and click next. click Finish on the following screen. As soon as you click on the Finish button, the connect the blackberry modem should come up:
Click on the Properties button on the window above. then click on the Networking tab, then make sure the Internet Protocol TCP/IP option is selected, and click on Properties:
On the following Window click on the Advanced tab. Uncheck Use IP Header Compression under the PPP link option:
Once that is unchecked, click on OK and exit out of all the windows. To connect to the Internet using the blackberry as the modem, go to Start, Connect to and choose Blackberry Modem when the dialing window comes up: click on dial without any username or password.
The modem should connect successfully. Let us know on the comments section if you have any problem.
What about mac?
i dont know how to creat a standard modem. i have windows xp 32-bit, im trying to connect to the internet using my blackberry as a modem and is telling me error 797
Hello hope you can help me .. I got a t-mobile 8520 blackberry . And I was using it as a modem for my laptop.. About 3 weeks ago my hard drive went ka-put .. Needless to say there went everything . Tmobile walked me throught getting it installed . But now for some crazy or stupid reason they stopped helping yoiu and left you and threw there customers under the bus .. I need you to help me to onstall a standard modem .. I've been raching my brains all day trying to install blackberry as a modem .. About to throw laptop and blackberry both under the bus if you know what I mean .. Be very grateful if uyou can help me eince tmobile has decided to stop helpong us like a bad habit .. Thank you and God bless .. Dan..
Hi –
My husband and I each have the Blackberry Curve 8320. Mine connects as the modem on dell/vista with no issue. (Great step by step instructions posted by the way)
His however is getting the error message ' 692 there was a hardware failure '.
Any suggestion as to why I can't get his to connect?
Thanks.
C.
Hey runway1007,
Don't you love those cryptic error messages?
I know that 692 error would make you think you have a hardware problem and of course, it is possible that you do but while hardware failures can and do occur, I'd be looking at software myself first. Particularly software device drivers. Most hardware requires software of some type to operate properly on a cell phone and if the software is corrupt, missing or just out of date, you can get a message making you think it is the hardware when it likely isn't.
If you're familiar with the software on your phone, I would reload the device drivers for the BB. You probably have the BB desktop manager software but if I were you, I'd go to http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/ and in the middle of the page, you'll see where you can download BB device software. This will update the software version you have on your BB and this might be all you need to do to get up and working. I would give that a try first and then go back through the steps in the article to see if you can get it working. Good luck!
OMG! Thank you so much! It worked!! T-mobile would not help me. I cannot thank you enough. I was going to cancel service today.
ok for those of you that have a blackberry bold and At&T you do just about everything that it says here except a little diffrent. You go through and go to phone and modem options but when you go to put the txt in the box try cgdcont=1."IP"ISP.CINGULAR instead and then when you go to set it up for the number to dial enter *99***#1 instead of the regular *99. This is what i had to do and mine works perfectly but you still have to go threw and unclick the PPP settings. Hope this helps if not then your just going to have to keep on surfing and trying diffrent things till you get it to work, thats what i had to do. Best of luck.
I have been using my BB as my modem since May 2010, I first started with my netbook and now a laptop. I have had several issues, but seem to get them resolved. Today however my laptop received an error with the ppp link and would not connect, it still has not been resolved. I'm sure it's something simple since it worked 4 hours ago and my netbook also works. Ihave only one other issue to discuss which is when I purchased my BB and told them at T-mobile of my plans to use it as a modem, they wrote down all the info I needed instead of telling me they don't support it. Which on one website it clearly states they stopped supporting this in October of 2009. That is what upsets me that they didn't tell me up front. I have a wonderful "geek" program I highly recommend called" IYOGI "you can call or contact them many ways, as many times you like and it doesn't matter how long it takes they fix it!! I hope the rest of you get your problems resolved and like IYOGI says "GOOD KARMA"
i dont have the standard modem settings, can u help me configure it?
I don’t have the standard modem settings. Can you help me configure it?
I need the instructions to add the modem, please.
One thing to note is that most of the recent Windows OSes will automatically try to fill the connection box with the username of the account you used to log onto the computer. Even if you remove your username, it re-populates after the connection fails and you try to reconnect. You have to blank the username field (and the password field) and then check the box to save your settings when you try to connect. After that, it should not re-populate.
I was very surprised to learn that some people actually learned about the service through T-Mobile. I oversee accounts for my employer, and I've been asking them about tethering for over a year (most recently, just three weeks ago). Each time, I've been told that tethering (using the BlackBerry as an Internet gateway) is not an option. That's one reason why we've switched a number of our mobile accounts to Verizon. Anyway, my initial tests after finding this site were successful.
By the way, if you download and install the newest version of BlackBerry Desktop (6.0 or newer) the main screen gives the option of setting up the connection in the lower left corner ("Mobile Internet"). It set up all the modem and connection strings correctly, but I still had to clear the PPP header checkbox and had to remove my username from the connection screen. Otherwise, it made quick work of everything.
Hi. I followed the steps. Thanks, it was great but it only worked once (Blackberry Curve 8520, Windows 7, Desktop Manager 5.0).
Now when I fiddle around it does say connected, but says no internet access as well. I changed to how it was (also with dialing rules) now it says error 777, and on Blackberry, it says "Supplementary service error unexpected data value."
I then changed the dial code from *99# to *99***1# but the same thing happens.
Please help. I am on MTN (SOUTH AFRICA)
Thanks! Email me: shaigovender at yahoo dot com
I did every thing right, but when it dials, it comes out error 692. What should I do now?
It doesn't work on Windows Vista. Is there an other way for Vista?
It worked for about one week, but now I'm getting an error message saying the PPP link protocol has been terminated.
How can I correct this problem?
A rude awakening! As I fired up a new laptop when the old went bad, I called for T-Mobile support after I downloaded the desktop manager. My call was to have them assist me in my dial-up connection, in which my existing data plan for 2 years now allowed tethering and gave me Internet to go.
T-Mobile will not allow free tethering any more. They have made it a (Supported Feature) adding tech support and trouble shooting. Brace yourself, now $14.99 per month. My plan the last 2 years has been about $90.00 a month. Now I have to pay $105.00, an approximate 18.5% increase in my monthly statement. Just like that, we now have big issues. I have been with them for 5 years, living with dropped calls because of the price. But will not at $105.00 a month.
I can connect my modem OK, but I can't load any page.
Help, please.
drhoomes@yahoo.com
Greg Said,
October 5th, 2009 @9:20 am
GOT IT!
That 692 error is caused by those quotes. The ones that you cut and pace will not work you have to replace them with new quotes.
Greg, you are the Man!!! Thank you. I have searched for hours, and re-installed the Desktop Manager 2x. I had no idea that my new version of XP would behave differently, than before.
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you
Hi there I don’t have standard modem installed on my laptop pls let me know how to create one thanks
If you have a Blackberry but don’t see Virtual Machine Network Services…How can you put that in that Networking properties box.
Hello I followed all the instructions. Where in the pc are you referring to ” go to Start, Connect to and choose Blackberry Modem”
Thanks