Today I was on the road again, carrying my laptop with me. I had the need to go online with my laptop. Having my Nokia N900 with me, this shouldn’t be a problem, right?

So my first step was connecting the devices via Bluetooth. The Assistant kicked in and anything looked like it would work – but somehow things didn’t work at all. As the phone itself is online, it’s not a problem at the carrier side.

And that’s exactly the problem: As soon as the phone sets up a connection for itself, you cannot go online with the computer using the phone as a modem. Took me a while to figure out…