Sharing the Nokia N95’s internet connection with OS X in 5 easy steps

Connected via Bluetooth

Tomorrow I’m on the road, visiting some business associates and some friends. Whilst on the road, I still want to check my emails and, if neccessary, log on to our servers.Keeping up with my mail is easy: the N95 has a perfect IMAP client that allows me to just fetch the headers. All I needed to do was set up the MacBook to acces the internet through the N95, using Bluetooth. Guess what: couldn’t be easier!

No really, I’m not joking:

Pick the appropriate phone from the list
  1. Activate Bluetooth in OS X and at the N95. Best result: pair the two of ‘em in the N95’s menu (Tools – Bluetooth – Pairing )
  2. Set-up the N95 in OS X’ Bluetooth menu. To do this, click the Bluetooth icon and pick “Set up Bluetooth device”
  3. A popup with available devices shows (see second screenshot). Pick the N95 and continue to the next menu.
  4. Fill out the connection settings, such as a username and/or password. Tip: Check out this page if you don’t know your settings. Not listed? Ask Google, they seem to know a lot.
  5. Using your System Preferences, the Network part, click your Bluetooth adapter and hit “Connect”. Voila, you’re online, ready to do your thing!
Add to your favorites:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 22:31 and is filed under Gadgets, Hardware, MacStuff, N95, OS X, Testing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Sharing the Nokia N95’s internet connection with OS X in 5 easy steps”

Nokia N95 blog - Another turbulent week for the Nokia N95 February 1st, 2008 at 23:02

[...] Sharing the Nokia N95’s internet connection with OS X in 5 easy steps [...]

Eduardo Pinto February 11th, 2008 at 22:43

That’s fine but what about the other way round? Macs can share their wired connection easily via the Airport. Other macs and PCs can connect, however, I never can get the N95 to connect through wifi.

Any clues?

Jaap February 12th, 2008 at 10:23

Hi Eduardo,

Thanx for your comment. I’ve tried sharing the connection the other way around, but I’m not convinced of the quility of the connection. The only way it seemed to work a little bit, was without any encryption. I’ll try again soon(ish)!

Update, 2008-02-12 22:23 PM CEST: I now posted an article about this subject, you can read it here : Sharing Mac OS X’s internet connection with the Nokia N95 in 5 easy steps.

Beulbek » Sharing Mac OS X’s internet connection with the Nokia N95 in 5 easy steps February 12th, 2008 at 22:02

[...] As mentioned in an earlier post, Mac OS X and the N95 can team up pretty good whilst connecting to the internet. While the latter post was about using the N95 as an access point, this one is about exactly the reverse. When you don’t have a decent data program or you don’t have Wi-Fi in your house, you could use your Mac as an access point to your N95. Only problem: it’s not reliable. [...]

Beulbek » Blog Archive » February’s top hits July 6th, 2008 at 16:56

[...] /2008/01/31/sharing-the-nokia-n95s-internet-connection-with-os-x-in-5-easy-steps [...]

Leave a Reply