Tonight I was challenged with finding a way to get an Internet connection from my laptop when the DSL connection I am using (at my Dad's house) at the moment is down.
At the moment I am accessing the Internet from my laptop (Vista) using my XV6700 as a wireless modem (USB connection). It was a bit of a challenge, but, I was able to getting it working. It much easier to establish a bluetooth connection, but, the USB connection offers much better speed. If I were in 1X land BT would have been fine. But, given that I have a strong EVDO signal here in KC, MO, I wanted to see how well it could run.
After a bit a swapping back and forth from the BT to the USB configuration on the phone, I was able to download a couple web pages that offered up the information I needed. http://forum.brighthand.com/archive/index.php?t-222120.html got me the phone configuration information that I needed . I was able to download the USB driver I needed from http://www.myehud.com/xv6600/usbmodem.html. (I don't have the Verizon CD with me). I was able to get the driver installed by following the instructions at http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=1137398. From there I was able to use the standard Windows Vista "Connect to a Network" wizard using "Dial-up networking" via the "CMDA1X USB Modem" that was created in the earlier steps.
Here is the fruit of my labor: 
That image shows a very reasonable 1702 x 119 Kbps connection. Overall, it's not nearly as responsive as the DSL connection (higher latency), but, it appears to work well enough!
-Bob
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Using my XV6700 as a USB wireless modem
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I tried to use my xv6700 and vista laptop via usb but the new hardware program said it couldn't find the driver/not compatible. I have a 64bit machine. Any ideas? Having unlimited data service on my phone, I really want to set this up.
Most likely it's a 64 bit issue. Did you try installing the same driver that I had used? My laptop is using a 32 bit version of Vista (Home Premium).
Have you tried contacting Verizon support (not that it's likely to help)?
-Bob
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