Lemain
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Well, thanks to you guys I think that I am nearly there albeit after two days work 
It seems that the Dell Truemobile Bluetooth 300 card is not compatible with XP SP2 - on the Dell Forum a question about this has clocked up a thousand reads and there is not answer. The internal card is apparently connected to the USB bus, internally and I shall have to remove it by taking it apart, in due course, but for now I have bought a Belkin dongle-type. Mind you, that has not installed cleanly, it is a real pig's ear of an installation that inspires one with no confidence at all.
However, I am now getting full pairing and from a Bluetooth DUN icon I can get the phone to start to access the network. First, let me say, in 'Navegador' mode (wap browsing, I think) it works fine, so I have money on the card and can connect via my phone without Bluetooth. I have to set the phone to Internet to work with the laptop, of course.
When I try to connect the phone says:-
Connecting.......Connect with Laptop?
I then 'Accept'
Phone - "Connected to Laptop" for 2 seconds then "Creating GPRS connection" then "Subscribe to GPRS first" at which the connection drops out and I get an error messge on the Laptop "Error 734: The PPP Link control protocol was terminated"
I thought that I must be subscribed to GPRS given that I can browe happily on the phone (not in Internet mode) and see the news, etc., with G on the display signifying GPRS.
So near, but yet so far?
Many thanks, chaps, for some 'on the button' help so far.
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Lemain
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I've found the problem so for the sake of other searching from here and elsewhere on the internet, this is what I found....
In the Nokia 6310i there are TWO places where the GPRS modem needs to be specified. Under "Settings" and under "Services" All of the internet and data stuff is carried out under Services and the modem was correctly specified in there but on the off-chance I re-typed the designated name under Settings > GPRS modem settings > Edit acess point and I changed the name for Access Point 5 (an arbitrary one) to 'internet'. Then the thing worked perfectly.
Thanks to you all for your help - much appreciated and very necessary! 
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ColdFusion
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Also for the sake of others searching...
I had a similar problem with a Dell Vostro 1500. It turns out that the laptop bluetooth module is compatible with XP SP2 but it needs a driver download from here before XP will recognise it 
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Conachair
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Glad to hear you got it working in the end. How's your connection? I ask because I use yoigo, sony ericsson K800i connected with lead straight to laptop and the connection keeps dropping out, very annoying, it will be fine for a little while then seem to lock up, i'll have to disconnect and reconnect to get back online. Anyone else have this problem with yoigo? Wierdly, if I get itunes to download a podcast or something most of the time it will happily download for hours. E1.30 per day is good though.
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Lemain
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Well, I have only really tested it to see that we have service as I have pretty good WiFi in the marina. I found it painfully slow for things like downloading the daily newspaper on PressReader - Lord knows how long that would take - but I was able to browse, access YBW and get into my bank. I really want it more when we are travelling about in the winter, and when we leave the marina again in April/May so will try to remember to report back then.
If your connection is dropping out maybe you need to check the time-outs? Or check that your signal is consistently good? Or, I wonder, whether you drop out on inactivity? I find that Skype often locks up a router that I use as a WiFi relay - after a few mins. of Skype call it needs to be powered down/up. I have found the same with a router I have in the UK from a different mfr. So maybe don't leave Skye running? If you are dropping out due to non-use, can you leave a small monitoring program in the background - e.g. set Outlook to every 30 seconds?
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Lemain
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Update: I only use the Yoigo when the local service in the marina packs up or when we travel around Spain. Since October, we have used it in Gibraltar, Baza and Ronda as well as Almerimar. The connection is very robust - stays connected for a hour or more, sometimes four. However, the speed is unbelievably slow. My NetMeter shows a download speed of around 3kB/s most of the time which makes email download using Outlook difficult. I find myself using Airmail instead. Some pages high in Java time out before loading (e.g. www.bloomberg.com) Skype connects and gives text but voice is unusable.
So, after chatting to Richard, I have ordered the open Vodafone PCMCIA card and external antenna. Will report back.
I need to find out which PAYG sim card I can use in this device for France and Italy.
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