Internet Sharing Lockups

[moovius]

I was using the free trial of PDAnet and loving it, but my reluctance to drop $34 for this program (I'm cheap, sue me) led me to find a free way to tether.

I tried out the Internet Sharing technique and after wading through all the "tutorials" and all the different methods that were suggested, I was able to tether without any hassle (just turned on IS on phone and plugged in the usb).

Now what I did have happen was a variable lock-up. A few minutes after turning on IS, the connection would freeze up (the status icon in XP I enabled for IS would completely lock up and couldn't be accessed either). I would have to disconnect the phone and then hang-up the IS connection, reconnect and the same thing would happen just a few minutes down the road.

Anyone else having this issue? Suggestions for remedies?

To recap, here's what I did to enable IS:

1. Disabled MultiNAI in the registry by changing all the values in HKLM>Software>OEM>WMODEM to 0 (which I understand is not needed since it does nothing).
2. Deleted the the registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\InternetSharing]
"Extension"="rilphone.dll"
3. Set my phone to Mobile IP Preferred after typing in ##3282#
4. Rechecked that all settings had taken effect after reseting the phone.
5. Loaded IS and hit connect
6. Plugged in the USB
7. Used it for a couple minutes before it would lock up.