3G mobile as a modem

Using your 3G/GPRS mobile phone as a modem on a Mac. There are two main things you need to setup your mobile phone as a 3G (or GPRS) modem on your Mac, a driver for your mobile and the connections settings for your mobile network.You should be able to find a driver at Ross Barkman’s Home Page. Ross has excellent scripts for most popular phones.

Here is a list of the configurations for some Australian mobile networks:

Operator

• Access Point Name
• Username 
• Password 
• Optional Settings

Optus

• internet 
• [blank]  
• [blank]  
• DNS: 202.139.83.3, 192.65.91.129 

Telstra

• telstra.internet 
• [blank]  
• [blank]  
• DNS: 139.130.4.4, 203.50.170.2 

Three

• 3netaccess 
• a 
• a 
• DNS: 202.124.68.130, 202.124.76.66 

Vodafone

• vfinternet.au 
• [blank]  
• [blank]  
• DNS: 192.189.54.33, 210.80.58.3