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Home » Women and Internet » Connecting to Internet » Using Bluetooth® to Connect Internet

Using Bluetooth® to Connect Internet

bluetooth internet connectionInternet plays an important role in the life of not only a businessman but also in that of a woman who restricts herself only to socializing. The range of the usage of Internet is very vast. Whether it is the information regarding an airplane or that of a safety pin, Internet provides you with every bit. It plays an essential role to make the ladies aware of the outside world. They can surf Internet for solving their household issues like how to manage their homes well, how to manage their monthly expenditure, buying new equipments for their kitchen and many more. As Internet has become the part of your daily life, new technologies have been implemented to avail its service in a much simplified and convenient manner. You can even use Internet on your mobile phone. By using the Bluetooth device of your mobile phones, you can directly get connected to the Internet. You can avail this service from any location provided that area is supported by a good connectivity.

Check the Bluetooth of your phone

To access Internet on your mobile phone, first you need to check whether your phone is capable of using Internet option. Many a time mobile providers block the dial-up connection from their network. In such cases, if you try to access Internet, then you may fail to connect to it. To use Internet on your phone, all you need is your Bluetooth device and a data plan for your cell phone. There are varieties of data plans available in the market. You can opt for the schemes and plans according to your utility. It is preferable to go with a data plan having higher limits.

Activating Bluetooth

Once you have your data plan, all you need to do is to activate your Bluetooth on your mobile phone and your laptop as well. You have to go to the settings menu of your phone and set the Bluetooth as visible. After that, you have to find the “Bluetooth program manager†(in windows XP and Window 7), “My Bluetooth connection†(in Vista), and “look for Bluetooth devices in Control Panelâ€. Then you need to go to System Settings and click on ‘Bluetooth’. A window will open in front of you. Select the option to add a new connection or device. This will enable your computer to search for all available Bluetooth device and will find your Phone. Once you see you’re the name of your mobile, appearing on your laptop, select it to connect to the Bluetooth of your laptop to the phone. If in case it asks you to enter a password, than try 0000 or 1234 and enter it on both the cell phone as well as on your laptop as a connecting code. This will connect the cell phone with the laptop and you will be asked to select the service that you need to use. You have to choose PAN (Personal Area Network). These above instructions will connect your cell phone to your computer. After this you just need to have a working Internet connection.

Other than this, it is required that the PC suit of your mobile phone should be installed on your laptop. The installation of the PC suit of your phone, acts as a modem when you will connect to the Internet through your mobile phone. If you do not have a PC suit, then the modem drivers for your phone should be installed on your laptop.

Bluetooth in laptops

You also have Bluetooth device present in your laptops. In order to connect laptop to a Bluetooth enabled device the laptop needs to have a Bluetooth adapter. Most of the newly developed laptops have in-built Bluetooth adapters. The Bluetooth present in laptops enables the users to connect the laptops with all other devices.

Bluetooth on other devices

You can connect other devices like Digital cameras and I-pods to your laptop. This helps you in transferring and downloading pictures. But many times problems occur in the process. In such cases, Bluetooth makes the process much easier and you can download the desired photos very easily. You can even connect your laptops to your I-pods and can download your favorite songs and videos.

There are many applications of Bluetooth technology and your laptops. You can connect any device to your laptop, provided they have Bluetooth feature. It helps in avoiding the cables and wires for the getting the devices connected to your laptops.

By Bidisha


Bidisha wanted to buy a new cell phone and her thorough research for gadgets revealed her passion for technology. Gradually, she found her drawn to everything related to technology and her work which involves extensive research and writing on new gadgets, apps, and smarter use of technology. Careful, her mission is to manipulate technology-naïve women to juice up their ordinary lives with use of technology.

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