4G Cards

[Jim Herrmann]

Did I mention that it needs to be portable?  I have a cable modem at my
house.  I've seen 10MB download speeds from that.  Not looking to replace
that.  I need to be mobile.  Columbus, OH, Panera bread, any restaurant or
coffee shop, etc.  I want to be able to be wired in to do billable work from
any city in the US, any place I want to hang out and people watch that
particular day.  The beach is probably not practical at this point in
Kansas, but that's the general idea.  4G makes the completely mobile office
totally possible.  I'm getting on that band wagon.  I now have two customers
that will pay me very good money to work on their projects, from a
distance.  Yeah baby!  Wire me up, or rather, unwire me up!

I have, or rather my business has, put in an order for the Overdrive.  For
what it will cost, if it saves me an hour or two over the course of each
month futzing around with connections, it will totally pay for itself.  The
device looks pretty cool.  4G to WiFi up to 150 feet away for up to five
devices, and it's battery powered, like a cell phone, so it can just sit
there on the table, connected to nothing, and give your whole house 3-6 GBS
download speed.  That is just too f-ing cool.  Of course, like a cell phone,
it has to be charged, or be plugged into the wall or USB.  I need to get me
some of that extra battery power for USB powered devices that I've seen for
sale.

I will do some personal testing over the next few weeks and report back to
the group on how well it works.  Wish me luck!

Peace,
Jim

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Geoffrion, Ron P [IT] <
Ron.Geoffrion at sprint.com> wrote:

>  The Sprint 4G modem by Motorola has no drivers to worry about. Hooked up
> to your wireless router provides whole house coverage.
>
> I switched last month and get 3-4mbps download consistently in KC.
>
> Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Jim Herrmann" <kclug at itdepends.com>
> Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 4:32 pm
> Subject: 4G Cards
> To: "kclug at kclug.org" <kclug at kclug.org>
>
>  OK, I may have answered my own question, but I would still like to hear
> other's opinions.
>
> The Overdrive Hot Spot gives me a 4G connection, and allows up to 5 WiFi
> connections to it.  That allows any OS to use it.  Sound good?  Yes, I know
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jim Herrmann <kclug at itdepends.com> wrote:
>
>> What Spring 4G cards work with Linux?  I am making the bold assumption
>> that there must be someone on here that knows this off the top of their
>> head.  :-)
>>
>> It appears that 3G is well supported, albeit with some USB tweaks.  But
>> I'm not hopeful from what I've found for drivers getting 4G speeds being
>> supported on Linux.
>>
>> Help me choose.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>
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