Comments on: Psst … MiFi now available at Sprint.com http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/06/01/psst-mifi-now-available-at-sprintcom/ The value of any product or service increases with its mobility. Wed, 23 May 2012 08:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MiFi by Novatel - 6-1-09 - Sprint Gurus Forums http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/06/01/psst-mifi-now-available-at-sprintcom/#comment-1612 MiFi by Novatel - 6-1-09 - Sprint Gurus Forums Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=2435#comment-1612 [...] but the service doesn't meet my needs. More of what I had to say about that over at Russ' blog... McGuire’s Law Blog Archive Psst … MiFi now available at Sprint.com __________________ ? SERO customer ? Tom's Blog ? Tom's Photos ? Tom's Bio [...] [...] but the service doesn’t meet my needs. More of what I had to say about that over at Russ’ blog… McGuire’s Law Blog Archive Psst … MiFi now available at Sprint.com __________________ ? SERO customer ? Tom’s Blog ? Tom’s Photos ? Tom’s Bio [...]

]]> By: Tomas - University Place, WA http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/06/01/psst-mifi-now-available-at-sprintcom/#comment-1605 Tomas - University Place, WA Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:47:07 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=2435#comment-1605 Nice looking unit, and I'd love to have one, but there is no way I can justify the cost of the service unless I REPLACE my current wired broadband service for my laptop with wireless service. I've been measuring my laptop usage over the past 6 months, and only one of those was I under Sprint's data cap of 5GB/month. (I don't download movies, or music, I have no P2P torrents - in fact don't even use have any torrent apps - etc. I'm not a gamer, I rarely IM. What I do do is put my photos on Flickr, the occasional short video on YouTube, and administer or moderate a number of sites. If just by doing that I exceed Sprint's new limits on unlimited, there is sadly no way I can use one of these nice little units. :o( (Waiting for Sprint's "4G" services to come to my area (might be long wait even though we are already covered by ClearWire and Sprint on separate services) and hoping the cost and limits allow for real world use.) For now I'll just to continue to use my wired cable service (with dial-up back-up) and the WiFi at Starbucks and such. Nice looking unit, and I’d love to have one, but there is no way I can justify the cost of the service unless I REPLACE my current wired broadband service for my laptop with wireless service.

I’ve been measuring my laptop usage over the past 6 months, and only one of those was I under Sprint’s data cap of 5GB/month. (I don’t download movies, or music, I have no P2P torrents - in fact don’t even use have any torrent apps - etc. I’m not a gamer, I rarely IM. What I do do is put my photos on Flickr, the occasional short video on YouTube, and administer or moderate a number of sites.

If just by doing that I exceed Sprint’s new limits on unlimited, there is sadly no way I can use one of these nice little units. :o(

(Waiting for Sprint’s “4G” services to come to my area (might be long wait even though we are already covered by ClearWire and Sprint on separate services) and hoping the cost and limits allow for real world use.)

For now I’ll just to continue to use my wired cable service (with dial-up back-up) and the WiFi at Starbucks and such.

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