iPhone 3GS tether to Win XP over Bluetooth

Not a whole lot to say about this, it's pretty straightforward - turn on Bluetooth and Internet Tethering on the phone, turn on Bluetooth on the XP machine (Dell Latitude XT laptop running XP Tablet, in my case), then discover the phone.

Double-click the network icon in the Bluetooth Settings screen

(it may ask you to pair the first time you do this) and you're online.  Note: it's possible your Bluetooth settings interface may be different.

I'm seeing reasonable speeds, about 1.4 Mpbs down and 250 Kbps up. About the same as I saw over Bluetooth to my Mac.

Rogers Canada network, Ottawa area.

This entire article was posted (including uploading the screenshot) over Internet Tethering.

Apple has a couple articles that may be helpful:

• iPhone 3G: System requirements for Internet tethering
• iPhone: Troubleshooting Internet tethering

Previously:
June 22, 2009  iPhone 3GS tethered over Bluetooth to Mac PowerBook G4
June 20, 2009  tethering iPhone 3GS with Windows XP over USB

Comments

[Kelvin]

Does tethering the 3GS cause massive battery drain and/or overheating?

Wondering how feasible is it so that I can decide whether to get a bigger data plan for it.

[gautham]

can we sent and recive fines through blutooth from other phones

[Richard Akerman]

@gautham No, Apple supports Bluetooth only for Tethering (which provides Internet access only) or for audio. I don't know of third-party apps that will do sharing over Bluetooth. There are apps e.g. AirShare that allow wifi sharing, but I think those share from iPhone to computer, not iPhone to iPhone. There is an app called Copy Share that will let you copy clipboard items from iPhone to iPhone.