Tag: Hotspot
USB Modems Preferred 3 to 1 over Personal Hotspots. Why?
Notebook owners are hesitant to embrace personal hotspots, like the MiFi, and built in modems as their mobile broadband connection for notebooks. Instead, ABI Research found that the old fashioned USB modem is the preferred mobile connectivity option, outselling hotspots and embedded modems 3 to 1. ABI Research expects that this will be the trend [...]
T-Mobile Rolls Out New webConnect Mobile Broadband Prices
T-Mobile has announced an update to the webConnect mobile broadband plans, increasing the price of the high end data plan to $85 a month for 10GB. The new T-Mobile webConnect plans are compatible with notebooks with T-Mobile broadband built in, USB modems, WiFi hotspots like the MiFi and tablets. The new webConnect pricing starts at [...]
AT&T Turned On Hotspot Tethering for iPhone Developer
AT&T turned on the Personal Hotspot Wi-Fi Tethering feature for an iPhone user who had an iPhone with iOS 4.3 beta installed, according to Apple Insider. If true this could be an early sign that once the new version of the iOS firmware is released, the carrier may follow the lead of new iPhone seller [...]
Sprint Still Considering LTE as Mobile Broadband Standard for Use
While Sprint has released a number of USB dongles that allow enterprise and consumer customers to connect to the carrier’s 4G WiMax mobile broadband network, the nation’s third largest carrier is still considering rival LTE technology as a possible candidate for 4G deployment. LTE has been selected as a standard by AT&T and Verizon Wireless [...]
MacBook Air 3G Inbound? Survey Says Yes
The MacBook Air is a great portable computer, but one thing missing from the Air, that you’ll find on other business and consumer ultraportables, is a built in 3G connection. While you can use a USB Modem, MiFi or turn your phone into a hotspot; many users prefer the convenience of having a 3G connection [...]
32% of Browsers Borrow WiFi Connections Despite Dangers
A new report from the WiFi Alliance found that nearly a third, 32%, of Internet users will borrow their neighbor’s WiFi connection, or hop onto an unprotected WiFi hotspot to get online. The number is nearly double what it was back in 2008 and troubling form a security aspect given the ease for cybercriminals to [...]
AT&T iPhone Could Get Hotspot Feature Soon
There is convincing evidence that the new Hotspot Tethering feature that debuts with Verizon’s iPhone release will be coming to AT&T as well as part of their recently announced hotspot plans. Much speculation has surfaced about AT&T getting the hotspot feature. For their part, the company has not officially announced anything, but two reviewers of [...]
How to Prepare for a Winter Storm: Tips to Keep Connected & Entertained
There’s a winter snow storm coming for over a dozen states and if it actually delivers on the weather that is being forecast many of our readers are in for a period of isolation and possibly a lack of power or internet connectivity. Thankfully you can take a few steps right now to prepare yourself [...]
Verizon iPhone Hotspot Pricing Released
The coming release of a long awaiting Apple iPhone on Verizon will happen Feb. 10 with a potentially game-changing new feature – a wireless hotspot built into the phone allowing users to share their Internet connection via the phone’s Wi-Fi. Verizon has now released their pricing (via MacRumors) for the feature and while it was [...]
Best Buy Offers Free Mi-Fi with Purchase of iPad
Best Buy is now offering a free Mi-Fi from Verizon, Sprint or AT&T with the purchase of a 16GB Wi-Fi-only Apple iPad for $499.99, according to 9 to 5 Mac. The MiFi is a mobile hotspot, meaning that it is a wireless broadband device that shares it’s broadband signal with up to five computers or [...]
