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Things work better when you follow the directions, rather than what you think the directions say.

A couple of months ago I decided it was time to set up my iBook so that it would be able to go online through my Treo 680 phone using my data plan. I used to do this routinely with the Samsung T509 that preceded the Treo.

Setting up the connection on the Samsung wasn’t hard, but involved some geeky steps after I found instructions on the web. I had to download a modem definition script and edit it to include configuration information about T-Mobile’s network. I had to find that information on the web too.

With this in mind I searched for and found instructions on Using your t-mobile Treo 680 as internet access point via Bluetooth with Mac OS X. The instructions point you to a site where you download a package of generic GPRS scripts.

The first difference between setting up for the Samsung and the Treo is that you set up a Bluetooth serial port for the Treo… I did that. And should have left well enough alone. Instead, in the Bluetooth Preferences on OS X 10.4 I stumbled across some sort of dialer definition, so I filled out what it looked to need to.

And my connection didn’t work… and I got distracted by theatre projects.

Yesterday morning I decided to try again, going through the instructions step by step until I ran into the thing I’d added on my own. Delete… test… success.

Do what the instructions say, not what you think they say!

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