I tried out JoikuSpot yesterday for a while. It’s a bit of software that turns your Nokia phone into a Wifi access point using the cellular connection as the backhaul. It worked perfectly!! I have a 3G N95, so the connection is very fast. No setup at all, I just installed it and started running it, told it to connect to cellular for the backhaul, and it started broadcasting an ad-hoc access point SSID I was able to connect to from my Mac. Sweet!!

The first page I brought up was actually redirected to the JoikuSpot homepage, but that’s just a flash screen. Connections after that go through as they should. Pretty sweet if you’re out somewhere with a bunch of geeks and everyone wants to check their email or scan their blog comments right in the middle of some other outing. That never happens though, right? Especially not in the Bay Area, where everyone is well adjusted and normally socialized.

Another cool thing, my MacBook stayed connected and constantly using the connection for 45 minutes using the wifi bridge. I’ve yet to get the Bluetooth modem scripts for my Mac to stay connected consistently for more than 15 minutes at a time. W00t!! So this might become my new defacto access method. Or does anyone out there know the magic settings to keep pppd from barfing every once in a while when connected to the N95?