Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

It worries me that things like tethering, that "shouldn't be complicated" are not out of the box for the N900... I guess the schedule for developing was too demanding and cuts had to be done.

In any case, since many users will want this, the software patch for it should be well promoted.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

Tethering between the tablets and my phone has always worked for me and was as easy as a few clicks in the gui? It was never complicated or unsupported.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

Good enough for me. Thanks for taking the time to let the community know this is coming!

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

Since they won't put at&t 3g on the N900 then I would like to bluetooth it to my N95 that does have at&t 3g as I am doing right now with my N810. So the question is, can we do as we have been doing all along with our tablets and tether to our nseries phones using it's 3g instead of this tmobile stuff cuz that is just putting all tablet owners into a sudden change without any transition period. Why would Nokia lead every tablet owner to rely on at&t and then suddenly switch without any effort to make the change more manageable?

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

can we easily unlock the N900 so we could put other carriers SIM in? When I travel in Asia, T-mobile is not to be found. It would be nice to throw a carrier's card in while over there and then put T-mobile's back when I return to the US.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

The other way of doing it would be releasing a version of Joikuspot for Maemo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTA1agjjZQk

It lets you turn a 3G wi-fi phone into a wi-fi hotspot which should work with any device that supports adhoc connections, which includes most laptops (I've connected a Xandros EEE PC to the internet through my Nokia 5800 running Joikuspot). You can even use the same phone to connect multiple devices.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

Why not just buy an unlocked version of the N900? All Nokia devices are available in unlocked versions too.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

We have BlueTooth on board though.

JoikuSpot makes WiFi AP and is just an interface to very low level stuff we been able to do on Linux as well. On Linux, all what is needed is some frontend, and that can be made much better than JoikuSpot. The statistics used for tethering you can get from e.g. ifconfig (limitation: I/O in bytes and 32 bit though). Also, Joikuspot doesn't support WPA2.

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

also, joikuspot have limitations on the free version. unless nokia pulled a fast one with the networking in maemo, it will a be a case of firewall/routing rules ;)

Re: N900 and *Bluetooth* tethering - full solution
 

Yes but Wi-Fi is sometimes more flexible in terms of device support.

Both methods have their advantages but in certain circumstances Joikuspot is the preferable one (for example if your laptop has Wi-Fi but no Bluetooth, or if its Bluetooth doesn't work with Bluetooth modems).