This Mifi Sucks!
...power that is. I'm such a sucker for a pun or inflammatory headline. The one area that the Sprint issued Mifi device leaves me wanting is in the battery life. If you are accustomed to wifi all the time then…
Sprint’s Dan Hesse Talks to Charlie Rose, Wireless
This a a really good interview. If you carry a cell phone you need to watch.
My First Month With The Sprint Mifi Service
It’s just over a month since I took the decision to buy Sprint’s 3G mobile internet service using a Mifi device. Thus far I’m really enjoying the device and the service.
During my first trip with the device I racked up 1.5 GB of data transfer and was starting to worry that 5GB a month was going to be too little. But then I had two trips to Canada where the roaming fees made using the Mifi impractical. So in the first month I used around 2 GB. Not too bad.
Sprint 3G Mifi @ SFO Aug 19
I promise that after this week I won’t focus so much on the Mifi and this Sprint 3G service. From an early Wednesday morning perspective here’s what I’m seeing for performance.
Sprint 3G Mifi @ SFO Aug 18
So here's how the Sprint 3G service measures now that I'm away from my home office location. Note that my laptop clock is on CDT. It's just before 6am west coast time. As you can see I tried tests against…
Sprint Mifi: Day #3 @ Home Office Location
I thought that I’d have another check of the Sprint 3G data rate now that we’re into the weekend. The performance in the mid-afternoon during the week was not bad at all. I was wondering if there would be any change on the weekend.
It seems to be markedly improved on the weekend. Today it measures: 1.94 Mb/s download, 520kbps upload with a ping time to Dallas of 155 ms. That was at around 2pm CDT.
The real test will be when I’m in SFO next week.