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By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in USB, Windows Mobile, Networking, Wireless, Mobile, Internet, Microsoft on December 20, 2007 at 5:53 pm

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My shiny laptop is so shiny and new it doesn’t have a PC Card slot. That’s a bit of a problem, when the only 3G mobile data cards we have in the office are PC Cards. It’s even more of a problem when you’re in the car park at Costco and need to get a file from your home PC…

Express Card slots are great - if you’ve got an express card.

Built in antennae for WAN modules are even better - if you’ve got a module fittted.

It took me a while to get around the problem, but the solution turned out to be easier than I expected. All I needed was a Windows Mobile 6 device and its built in Internet connection sharing tool (the same feature is in Windows Mobile 5, but it’s hidden away in the file system).

I installed the Windows Mobile Device Center on my laptop so I’d have all the drivers I needed, and then plugged the phone in for an initial synchronisation.

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