Virgin Mobile Will Launch Prepaid MiFi
Don't get virgin mobile broadband2go if you depend on it working.
All levels at virgin mobile (from customer reps to so called "executive" care) are unable to report any actual tower issues... this means that when the tower you are using fails it will remain broken indefinitely (or until a post paid sprint customer reports a problem).
On towers that it does work on (grin) it works well... Virgin caps the evdo at 1.4meg down and around 600k up... they also appear to vpn route their connections back to virgin mobile then out to the internet. This is not that bad but you will be assigned a NAT address (10. series)... while using a sprint connection card/mifi gets you an actual routable ip address.
If you are just looking for a backup device or casual usage this isn't a bad way to go... but if they have ...
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On towers that it does work on (grin) it works well... Virgin caps the evdo at 1.4meg down and around 600k up... they also appear to vpn route their connections back to virgin mobile then out to the internet. This is not that bad but you will be assigned a NAT address (10. series)... while using a sprint connection card/mifi gets you an actual routable ip address.
If you are just looking for a backup device or casual usage this isn't a bad way to go... but if they have ...
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Might want to check that article
"The MiFi will cost $149 with no contract required" ... "but Sprint offers no such device"
Really? I found two of them.
http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/ ... »
http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/ ... »
Really? I found two of them.
http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/ ... »
http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/ ... »
Not to mention they have a 4G device that costs $60/mo for unlimited (whatever their definition is) data on 4G.
I just don't know about 5GB though. I play a lot of X Box and Wii and that would go way to fast
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Looks awesome
This looks seriously cool. It'd be nice if there was a $30.00 plan, but this is seriously cool.
are you joking?
no. seriously.
are you really joking?
no. seriously.
are you really joking?
Got em' yesterday
Utah Best Buy's got those yesterday, and have already put them out...
is the 28th the street day?
is the 28th the street day?
