Nokia N900 tips & tricks: Tether with your Windows PC through PC Suite

One of the things I use my smartphone for from time-to-time is tethering when I am waiting for extended periods and want a larger keyboard and display experience than what I can find on my smartphone. Given that the Nokia N900 is a Maemo 5 device with just a few apps and utilities I didn’t even think to try to figure out how to tether it for the last week. I finally pulled my head out and realized that the N900 connects to Windows PCs with Nokia PC Suite and there is a native USB modem driver found in PC Suite. I connected my N900, launched PC Suite, clicked on the One Touch Access icon and away I went. Using my T-Mobile 3G SIM and N900 I saw download speeds between 230 and 260 kbps, but this wasn’t in a particularly well populated area. I need to conduct some more tests in strong signal zones.

The good thing is that this tethering capability is supported and is drop dead easy to use on a PC. There is no PC Suite for the Mac so I am not sure if you can connect a Mac to the N900 yet.

6 Comments to Nokia N900 tips & tricks: Tether with your Windows PC through PC Suite

Elias
October 20, 2009

I saw this video yesterday, you can do the same with Macs, only it’s a little bit trickier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSqGSG9riU

JohnS
October 20, 2009

What about tethering via Bluetooth? Is the Bluetooth working properly on your review unit?

ceroberts75
October 21, 2009

the bluetooth was not working on the demos…accross the board. i would guess that it should be fine in the final release.

ashutoshlovey
October 31, 2009

more about tethering capability …

minime
November 24, 2009

Hi!

I have ordered an N900 and now I’m wondering if it’s possible (or how) to copy (move) all the information I have on my old phone (gallery, sms, phonebook, calender etc) to the N900?

I was really easy when I did it from my N80 to my N95 8gb, but they are both symbian. How will it work with (symbian to maemo) when I get my N900 and want to move everything from my N95 8gb to the new N900?

I would appreciate it if you could help me out here!

Robin
January 7, 2010

Is it possible the other way around. Use the internet connection of the computer in N900.

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