Mobile Data via Bluetooth is a pile of crap

No internet at the company apartment I’ve been staying, right?

So when I’m back from work and I am wanting to blog, work, send meaningful emails, and so on, it’s just not happening.

AHHHHHH

Hold on! I have my Nokia E61 on T-Mobile.

I got all excited.

‘Ok,’ I thought, ‘It’ll be slow, but, you know, it’ll work…’

I fire up my launch2net software and have it detect the E61. It does. It finds the T-Mobile connection, knocks up a modem driver and then the ‘connect’ button appears.

I grin.

I click connect and 10 seconds later, after opening various ports and things, there’s a mobile connection.

‘Gosh,’ I think, ‘it’s really quite fast,’ as BBC News loads up reasonably quickly. Heh.

I’m feeling proud of the technology — and myself. It’s working. It’s perhaps equivalent to a 28k modem, I reckon.

I bring up a SSH client and make a connection. Very usable. That’s a good test. I check my email and navigate to the blog…

And then it hangs.

Arse.

I reconnect.

All good. Then it hangs again.

What the?

Hang. Disconnect. Reconnect. Internet. Hang. Disconnect.

I don’t get it. I can use internet perfectly fine on my E61 — for example, I can carry on a conversation on Agile Messenger (via MSN or Gtalk) for hours. But when it comes to poncing about with Bluetooth, no deal.

At least for me.

It kept on hanging and screwing up.

Any thoughts? I tried it with the Nokia N93. Same issue on a different operator.

Does anyone actually reliably use Mobile Data via Bluetooth regularly? If so, can you tell me what equipment you’re using?