May 23 2008

Verizon Wireless HTC XV6800 as a USB Modem for my Laptop

Posted by: Chris in Adventures in IT, Geekstuff, tags: ,

So I bought this phone, I kinda like it. I decided what the hey, maybe I’ll check out using it as a USB modem. So far, not bad. Its got the nice wireless EVDO broadband and the modem link works pretty well. I can’t receive calls when I’m linked up, but I can deal with that. I’m using it now to post here. There seems to be an issue with using SSL VPN (via my Astaro Security Gateway), but maybe I have to use a different type of VPN to get that to work with this connection. It does connect, but it drops the connection and is forced to reconnect after only a couple of seconds.

I also just used the connection to sign up for Adobe Photoshop Express online. Yeah, I know! Photoshop via a website!? Sweet! Sign up now, get a free account. I’ve been pretty hooked on Picasa 2 (now by Google), but its a program that only runs on your hard drive. The Adobe Photoshop Express runs off the website. I like this better because then I can have access to all the pictures I want to edit no matter where I might be. I’ll let you know if I like the experience. I know a little bit about Photoshop so I should be able to tool around and do a nifty thing or two. I’ll link my album when I get something up there.

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One Response to “Verizon Wireless HTC XV6800 as a USB Modem for my Laptop”
  1. Chris says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:14 am - Edit

    Well I tried the SSL VPN from Astaro again today, and it worked fine from my HTC USB connection. I’ll see if this is consistent and perhaps yesterday morning was the exception. What I didn’t like was that this time I had to add my exchange server into my c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file in order for my computer to find it. My domain DNS server is listed in my available DNS servers, but for some reason my PC isn’t utilizing it. I’ll have to see what I can do to improve that.

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