Hands on: Verizon's Jetpack LTE Mobile Hotspot 890L is <em>fast</em>

And its battery capacity is greater than an eight-year-old's bladder.

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[TheVelourFog]

Why should I pay another $40 a month to use this POS when my phone does the same thing for free?

Plus my phone is smaller. I don't have to remember to charge another device. I'm more likely to have it with me and it actually gets better battery life as a 4G hotspot.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5533/moto ... -battery/2

Arstech needs to stop posting this spam.

Since apparently you've got the hookup, please let us know the secret passphrase to get free tethering on Verizon and AT&T.

If you have an android phone, pda.net or koush's tether work fine, and without root. If you have root, there are many additional options as well.

So where's the free, legitimate tethering that we can all use for free? (not direct at you Baeo)

 

[Raptor Apocalypse]

Why should I pay another $40 a month to use this POS when my phone does the same thing for free?

Plus my phone is smaller. I don't have to remember to charge another device. I'm more likely to have it with me and it actually gets better battery life as a 4G hotspot.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5533/moto ... -battery/2

Arstech needs to stop posting this spam.

Since apparently you've got the hookup, please let us know the secret passphrase to get free tethering on Verizon and AT&T.

I've been using FoxFi. You can search for it in the app store. It doesn't require root and it's totally free.


Since using a search engine is hard for you people. I've done the work for you: https://play.google.com/store/search?q= ... ps&price=1

 

[Jackattak]

All our road warriors at work use these. In SF I get 28 Mbs down 15 Mbs up on average. I've seen twice as much in both directions at times. Not sure if that's due to VZW's coverage or lack of users (most everyone in the Bay Area has the 4S, thus 3G only), but these things rock. Granted, you hit the 5GB limit that much faster.

 

[sryan2k1]

ince using a search engine is hard for you people.

It is against every major carriers TOS to tether that way. A lot of people want a legitimate way to get mobile broadband.

 

[Raptor Apocalypse]

ince using a search engine is hard for you people.

It is against every major carriers TOS to tether that way. A lot of people want a legitimate way to get mobile broadband.

Wrong: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/3 ... tethering/

 

[sryan2k1]

That does not apply to people with unlimited plans.

 

[avg-j0hnny]

Yeah, what good is the ability to go 300 mph when you have to do it in a quarter mile?

Great, you set a world speed record. How useful is that once you've hit the financial barrier? All these carriers bragging about how fast they are, how you can download a 3 gig movie in minutes. Big whoop! What do you do for the rest of the month?

Hopefully technology will evolve to a point where it'll be trivial to serve tons of data to millions of people simultaneously without "clogging the pipes" so to speak, thereby rendering data caps obsolete.

One can only hope, but there's no telling what we'll come up with in the future. Especially since wireless data is becoming so indispensable

 

[TheVelourFog]

Sounds like you believe the carriers when they say it for us and not because it's a greedy thing to do. The 4G networks have many fewer devices and much higher speeds yet the same ridiculous caps. It's all about milking people for money. Don't buy their bullshit talk about keeping it usable. They intentionally have the caps low so you hit them.

 

[CrackedLCD]

Especially since wireless data is becoming so indispensable

All the more reason to enforce an artificial scarcity, don't you think? [insert tinfoil-wearing smiley here]