I'm having constant problems using my N95 as a packet data connection for my N800. I don't usually have any problem establishing a connection, but it will eventually be disconnected and require me to reconnect again. The N95-1 and N800 are running the latest firmware. I'm not sure if the problem could be with the tablet, phone, or data provider. Has anybody else experienced any similar problems? I've been putting up with it for a while but it's pretty frustrating, especially since it seems to keep popping up with "connection lost" just as I'm loading a page or in the middle of a pidgin conversation.

Not helpful, but ditto with a Sony Ericsson W950i. It frequently disconnects when walking from one room to the other, with the Sony in my pocket and the N800 in my hand.

I assumed it was crap bluetooth on my phone.

My N810 and N95-1 play nicely when in 3.5 or 3g coverage is good.
When it switches back and forth to edge or gprs and back to 3g, the connection often drops.

Thanks @emjayes, that makes sense for what I'm seeing.

It doesn't help that I live in a place that is _just_ not on 3g coverage.
If I walk 200 meters from my house, the connection stays up much better.
At work I get full 3.5G so not so many drops there.

Same problem with my n810 and n95-4 on a edge connection. It will drop at random times.

Thanks for the advice everyone. My gut feeling is it may be the bluetooth on the N95 flaking out, but I don't really have anything to support that, and it would seem strange that a high-end flagship phone wouldn't work with an internet tablet by the same manufacturer.

I originally suspected that it may have been a coverage issue because I mostly use the data connection on my way to and from work, and the problem may be due to moving in and out of coverage. However I have also found that the same thing seems to happen also when I've used it at locations where I've seemingly had a good 3g signal, so unless there are other issues with the network that I can't see on the phone, then it seems unlikely that the provider would be the cause. Does the signal strength tell the full story, or is there anything else I should be looking at?

It's also annoying that I can generally bring up the connection again with no problem once I try to reconnect, so it seems like something the phone could do automatically, or with a simple prompt to reconnect. It's possible though that the connection is only being lost after the phone has already attempted to reconnect internally and failed, I don't really know how it works under the hood. It would be good even if the message could be a bit more descriptive than just "Connection Lost", since I don't know which part of the tablet to phone to internet chain has been lost.

It's getting to the point where it's easier just to use the phone to browse the web when I'm away from home or work and a Wi-Fi AP, but this sort of defeats the point of the internet tablet, so I'd love to be able to find a solution to it and use the tablet as intended.

Don't get me wrong, I still love my N800, but this is a pretty annoying flaw, and it's probably not the N800's fault either. I'd love to be able to sort this out, but it seems like one of those problems that I'm probably just going to have to come to terms with (as it sounds like others have also).

the signal strentgh indicator in any Nokia phone is just a sampling over several seconds, so the connection quality may have been reduced enough for the data traffic to drop even if the indicator shows good coverage.

I think it might be something with the N95 bluetooth hardware/software. The connection on my SE P1i could stay on all day. Unfortunately, there are no advanced BT settings on the n95, and it possibly be a power saving mode.

@gold0r
I have exactly the same problems using the nokia 6120c. Very frustrating. Still looking/hoping for an answer