Pay-as-you-go broadband
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Here's one for your hurricane kit: Virgin Mobile has a "pay as you go" broadband adaptor.
I picked this up at BestBuy and it pretty much works as advertised. Aside from the initial cost of the device ($149) you only pay for a set amount of megabytes as you go. The catch: unlike the pay-as-you-go phone minutes, your megabytes expire within 10-30 days depending on how much you buy (prices range from $10 for 100mb to $60 for 1gig). But Virgin sells pre-paid cards, so you can throw a few of those into your bag as well and be ready.
It works on an EVDO-REVA network, which I believe to be Sprint's network (don't quote me on that) and the speed is good enough in a pinch.
Its a thumbdrive as well, and comes with the Windows and OSX drivers on board (no CD needed) but you do have to initially activate the device from a Window machine. There's no cool "connection manager" for OSX, so there's a few extra steps to make the connection. But the upside is that OSX will easily share the connection with other computers. Although, at that price-per-meg that's probably not a great long-term plan.
Labels: hurricane, virgin mobile
posted by Russell @ 12:06 AM,
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