----- "Don McMorris" <[email protected]> wrote: > I did a quick look, and Verizon has one, as does Sprint. I didn't > see > one for AT&T - that's not to say there isn't one, just I didn't see > it > in their device offering.
AT&T actually has a better offering. It is called the E71x Symbian phone coupled with a piece of software called Joiku Spot. Truthfully, the joiku spot software runs on several smart phones with wifi. What it does is create a ad-hoc network with DCHP to hand out DNS and such. In the free version, it does proxy only to the internet, but if you pay the license you get full routing to the internet through the phone. The benefit of it being on your cell phone is one less device, and one less account. Everything I have seen about the MiFi and similar is that you pay a data connection fee similar to yet another full cell phone plan to get the MiFi service. Other benefit of the joiku spot software is that it lets you piggy back your laptop on the much cheaper smart phone unlimited plan. My unlimited smart phone plan is a $30 add on to the normal minutes. This is also not supposed to capped at 5gb, but the contract says they may persuade you into a different plan if you exceed 5gb a month. The data only plans start at $35 for 200mb and go to $60 for 5gb. See the better plan there? Note that AT&T seems fairly stupid with pricing, Blackberry personal plan is $30 as a add on to your normal plan, and it lists unlimited data. Go + tethering and it jumps to $60 as a add on and caps at 5gb. Just a few thoughts for you all. Hmm with the Nook being hacked, and with the gsm modem in it with sim card, might be interesting to hack on it and make it into a MiFi with some better specs. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
