Geeks rock!

So I was fiddling around with my cell phone and Mac the other day, trying to figure out how to use my cell to get online. Y’know, connecting with bluetooth and capitalizing on the unlimited data plan I have to surf the ‘net. A handy thing to be able to do, when you’re as addicted to geekery as I am, always travel with my computer, can’t always find a coffee house with wifi. Or at least not one with free wifi. Call me spoiled, I just can’t bring myself to pay for it when so many places offer it free. Just in my neighborhood alone, there are at least six free hotspots within walking distance, so when someplace like Starbucks wants me to drop ten bucks for a day’s worth of surfing (I think they still do that – haven’t tried it for awhile), it makes sense to me to find another way. Hence the cell phone-Mac-bluetooth thing.So last night, I got online (using my own Clearwire signal) and began my search for instructions as to how to properly configure my networks settings to accomplish this task. After about an hour or so of searching, reading, setting, testing, tweaking and the like, I hit on the magic combination of numbers, and voila! I got online! I’d read warnings about how painfully slow it could be, surfing the web this way, but to be honest, it wasn’t bad. At times pages loaded slowly, but others were pretty quick to appear. I’m very excited about this, as I have a trip to the coast coming up, and it will be really nice to have access whenever and wherever I want it. I’ll post an update afterward to tell how it went.