Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom
JoikuSpot + N95 + MacBook = :-)
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?
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about 2 years ago
Yep, We tried it too in the office, same setup, macbooks and N95 on AT&T. worked fine with connecting windows machines too. so simple solution!
I wonder how long before N95 battery drains though
about 2 years ago
I just installed JoikuSpot and have been able to successfully connect my N95 8GB to my MacBook Pro. Initially I had problems with it hanging after a couple of minutes (although giving no indication on either my Mac or in Joiku that the connection was lost), but I narrowed it down to Adium being the culprit. At some stage while it was attempting to connect it obviously borked the Joiku connection. I have accounts in all the most popular IM networks, so not sure if its specific to one network, or if its an Adium issue, but its definitely related to the fact that only HTTP/S are supported by Joiku at the moment.
Despite being able to make HTTP connections successfully, I havent been able to establish a HTTPS connection, for example using my bank’s website login. I have read the Joiku documentation, but unsurprisingly it’s Windows-only. The Safari proxy preferences kick you to System Preferences, which I have had a poke around in, but there doesn’t seem to be any equivalent to the “automatic” setting referred to in the Internet Explorer Joiku setup docs. Have you had any success with HTTPS? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I too am long-time frustrated at the poor implementations of Bluetooth in both the N95 and OS X, so a wifi solution like Joiku is very welcome indeed!
about 1 year ago
JoikuSpot works nearly perfectly! After buying the application I can browse, use my (SSL-encrypted) email and stay connected. Only whish it would appear as a hotspot instead of another computer in the Airport drop-down, so it would connect by itself.
about 1 year ago
Hello, hopefully somebody can help me with this. I have Joikuspot Premium on my Nokia N95 8G and it works beautifully on my PC laptops. However, I tried to use it with my iBook G4 and it wouldn’t work. I can see the computer-to-computer network on the Airport screeN (ie “Joikuspot_xetcx”) and click on it so that it is ticked as joined. However, I “cannot connect to the internet” and the Joikuspot application on the N95 does not show any connections on the “Clients” tab.
I am sure it has something to do with my iBook but am not techky enough to know what to do. Can anyone help please?
about 10 months ago
Yeah, I have the same problem running 10.3 on my G3 Powerbook. My Intel iMac connects seamlessly but I just cannot get the old ‘book to connect to the web. I can connect to the Joikuspot hotspot and I’ve tried clicking on the “computer to computer” tick box but to no avail — Firefox just refuses to load any pages :(