Before I call T-Mobile I want to ask my readers a question

I will be going to CES this January and I would like to blog from my hotel room if I have some spare time. If it’s anything like the last 2 times I was in Vegas, I’m going to be charged $10 for 24 hours worth of internet access. That is excessive and just plain thievery. Now my laptop has bluetooth and so dos my E61. I tried using the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) PC Suite, as well as Windows XP’s built in network manager to attempt to go online via my GPRS connection.

I’ve failed. I can’t get it to work. I don’t really want to call T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) and ask for help because I think they’ll try and just sell me their laptop connect data plan, instead of actually offering me any technical support. Now I’ve googled the issue, tried several things, including changing the number that is dialed, but I haven’t gotten it to work.

Any suggestions, tips, or tricks, would be greatly appreciated. I wish the Nokia Network Bridge worked over bluetooth, it makes more sense to me as well to use IP pass thru as opposed to making your Nokia mobile a modem. Having to select a carrier, finding out the login, password, number to dial, it’s a headache! IP pass thru however is what the Nokia PC Suite should be using as well.

So Nokia: either add bluetooth support to the Nokia Network Bridge, or enable IP pass thru on the Nokia PC Suite. Please. Plane leaves first week of the new year, if I can’t get help from you, my readers, then I’ll just end up calling my carrier.