Joseph Brower

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Archive for October 8th, 2009

Redifining Mobile Broadband

On my way down to the conference, I was traveling with some co-workers.  Aaron, who does a lot of our networking stuff for clients decided that he would make a mobile hotspot out of the car.  I was unsure of how well it would work, but I was interested, especially since I had a bunch of work that needed to get done and that required the internet.

He configured internet connection sharing on a windows laptop and connected that to a wifi router.  This he set up with the standard settings, wpa encryption, and such.  In no time we were on the net.  We use Alltell for our mobile broadband and I was quite pleased with it.  From Rexburg, Idaho to Sandy, Utah, we had a continuous connection.  About half of the time we were going at only 12KBps, but the other half we were going 150+KBps.  I was very happy about the performance, especially since my other cell provider was spotty.

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