Hi i am newbie here and got N800 on black friday and been playing with it ever since.

I got it setup to what i think suites my needs so far and I enjoy it every much...

The problem is that I cannot enjoy it while at work simply because i have no wifi at work. I was thinking of putting a personal point of access to create myself a wifi network at work but someone said that is prohibited. so my next choice is to get online via bluetooth.

Trouble is i don't have internet access on my cellphone plan and don't plan to have one... that leaves me only bluetooth via PC.

I went and bought a bluetooth adapter for the PC since the one at work doesn't have it. Everything installed ok on the PC and I could detect it via my cellphone but I could not get the N800 to recognize the bluetooth device on PC.

Do I need to do something else?

Thanks.

Why not go for a WiFi dongle? I bought one a while ago for my PSP (before I went wireless).

Sets up automatically and anything that can use WiFi finds it straight away! Cost me £20 IIRC. Much cheaper on eBay though.

is that a wifi adapter? how does that work with this? I mean i know if your computer doesn't have wifi and it'll make wifi available for your computer to connect to a wi-fi network.... but how does it allow N800 to connect to it? N800 already has wifi built in.

Thanks.

I don't know what the setup is where you work, but I am a LAN administrator for a company with 3500 PCs spread across 2 buildings and attempting to introduce a wireless connection in our environment is not only frowned upon, but grounds for disciplinary action including possible dismissal. I only share this so that you can confirm with your own support staff what is and isn't allowed in your environment before you make any purchases you may not be allowed to use.

Yeah. Installing wifi where it isn't allowed is a bad idea. Basically wifi (especially if set up by ordinary users) can lead to complete failure of the security measures - it basically opens the whole network up to anyone with half a brain and a computer within 300 ft.

I'm not sure that Bluetooth is that much better, but possibly easier to get away with. I believe there's a setting that under Windows Networking that you can set to "Allow this connection to access the internet" or something.

But what exactly do you want to do with your device while you're at your desk? Surf the naughty sites? P2P? Pretty much everything you would want to do on the n800 is handled much better by a PC...

Yes, I know setting up a wi-fi network where it wasn't allowed was risky and I know where i work, they'd come and shut it down... that's why i didn't even bother to bring in my wireless router to work

Anyways, it's not that important to use N800 at work other than showing off to coworkers Currently I used it to listen to the FM Radio at work but sometimes, it'd be nice to have it on the network to download maps for a trip to somewhere for lunch ... again ... just to show off my new toy

I thought it'd be easier just to set up the bluetooth so N800 could access the computer for transfering files and while at it... why not access Internet through it... but it doesn't seem to be an easier way after all.. i can get the computer recognize the N800 but I can't get the N800 recongnize the PC... bummer!

If the Wi-Fi Access Point you wanted to install is prohibited, then the Wi-Fi adapter/dongle will be too.

I have never tried sharing a bluetooth network connection from PC to tablet. But you've got me curious... I might try on my Vista PC. What Windows version are you running, and I gather you have full administrative rights on your PC (you can change network settings)?

Yes. I have read somewhere (coultn't remember the link) that you could share the network access via bluetooth, that's why I'm trying to see if I could do it too

Yes, I do have full access on my computer at work with administrator rights; oh and I'm running XP Pro at work.

UPDATED: Actually it seems that i have full access but I don't... I can't save the network setting when I tried to changed the bluetooth configurations. It just said "Unable to save the configuration"... with nothing else... so Im not sure if that means I don't have full access..

UPDATED 2: wait.. i am in Administrators group so I must have full access. I notice I have 2 bluetooth config in Control Panel. One says "Bluetooth Device" and "Bluetooth configuration"... I'm not sure why i have 2... but I don't seem able to change anything under "Bluetooth device" like turn the discovery mode on... meanwhile, I can turn that discovery mode on the "Bluetooth configuration" and save it. The other thing is that, I can see the PC via my phone but the N800 can't see the PC at all... just weird!

Thanks.

If all you want to do is transfer files, just plug in the USB to the computer. Unless something is different there, my n800 to the desktop mounts (or offers to) both SD cards as USB mass storage devices.

HTH.

That's correct... I know I could transfer files back and forth between N800 and PC via bluetooth and I did get that to work just fine... but what i tried is to mimic from what I read here... and I couldn't get the N800 recognize the PC as the "phone" so it could use the network access from it...

I know this doc specifically says for N770 but has anyone tried it on N800?

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...a_a_Windows_PC


After "hcitool cc my_unique_bt_address", it doesn't say anything and I still can't access anything... not sure whatelse to do after that