This post brought to you by WalkingHotspot

I’m in Starbucks. Again.

But this time I’m connecting via my Vodafone Nokia E90’s WiFi WalkingHotspot service, using the 3G data signal of the phone.

Screenshot0012

I couldn’t ever get Joiku to work myself although I know a lot of people have been loving it. Well, I downloaded a WalkingHotspot trial last night and it’s pure genius. All it required was a phone restart and bish, bash, bosh, I was live. It’s really simple. Launch the application, select ’start’ and that’s it. It’s connected and operational ready for your laptop — in this case, my MacBook Air — to connect. Two or three cheeky people have tried connecting. When they do, you get a prompt on the phone asking if they should be given service. No way. ;-)

So. Very, very VERY useful indeed.

  • I've used mine with my Mac too successfully, but I can't get the iPhone to play ball now which it would with Joiku... is it just me messing up the settings?
  • Yeah I couldn't get the iPhone to log on. It got the IP ok but wouldn't log
    on...
  • To me it looks like the laptop gets a 192.168.28.x address, but the iPhone gave up and self-allocated (I presume) a 169.x.x.x address.
  • Mike42
    On the iPhone:

    Settings > WiFi > choose the 'blue right arrow' for your WHS > scroll down > set HTTP Proxy to 'Auto'.

    Might do it.

    /m
  • Ah hah, excellent Mike!
blog comments powered by Disqus

Powered by Interactive Energy | Sign up to The Application Review newsletter