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For a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or express
by rantfoil 16y ago
For a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or expresscard.
It's ~$50/month -- but I would definitely give up lattes and buy black coffee for it.
- benmccann 16y agoOne of the best things about my Nexus One, which comes with free tethering and can act as a WiFi access point.
- Todd 16y agoVerizon also has a MiFi card.
- ora600 16y agoWhich in my experience is horribly broken.
- cpr 16y agoYes, google "Mifi disconnect" and you'll find endless stories of Mifi problems with the wifi mode (it works perfectly in dongle mode), across carriers: Verizon, Spring, Virgin Mobile. Bottom line (sad to say, since I own two): the Mifi doesn't work in wifi mode reliably. It drops offline every few minutes, breaking your ssh connections and any downloads in progress. It does reconnect within 5-10 seconds, so it sorta looks like it's working to your average undemanding browser user.
- zackattack 16y agoI personally recommend CLEAR, which works great and has 4G coverage in places that the website doesn't even say!
- wallflower 16y agoCLEAR is great except you cannot stream Netflix
- pmorici 16y agoI have Clear and stream Netflix.
- wallflower 16y agoArgh. I guess I need to edit the post to say if you are in a good coverage area (I'm not) - you can stream Netflix with no latency issues.
- pmorici 16y agoYa, it's no FIOS but With 4 bars on my modem's signal indicator Netflix usually works well. It's a little dodgy when it rains. Try moving your modem around your house and setting it at different angles. I initially had it in a position where it got three bars I moved it across the room and set it at a slightly different angle, now I get 4 bars and it's nearly twice as fast.
- philwelch 16y agoI had CLEAR back when they were called Clearwire. Many corporate name changes are designed to escape a poor reputation, and I have no doubt this is one of them. If you have CLEAR and you move to a part of town with poor reception, you drop packets. And, thanks to how TCP works, dropping packets == sabotaging your connection speed forever. And canceling my service with them was pure stress because they operate on a contract/termination fee structure. Maybe they've improved since then, and maybe it's worthwhile if you just want a mobile solution and can pay for a home internet connection on top of it, but I remain skeptical.
- baguasquirrel 16y agoEvery Peets manager in South Bay hates you now.
- moultano 16y agoOr, any Android phone running 2.2 on a carrier other than AT&T. Instant wifi hotspot.