Leave it up to Virgin to come up with this cool bad boy. It's a card sized WiFi unit on the GO! First you buy it for $149, then charge it up. Then touch the button the device. BOOM, you got WiFi for 4 hours (battery time). Then you can connect your computer, phone or whatever up to it. It's good for 5 hookups at one time and the speed is 3G speed that's actually from Sprint. Maybe it'll switch over to the new 4G they offer soon.
It doesn't require a contract, and the $40 monthly plan gives unlimited Wi-Fi in the U.S. "It has already paid for itself in skipped hotel Internet fees," Alice says. "And we have a family of four plus a Wii, so it's great for us." Alice is a travel writer and family woman.
Go direct to Virgin's site at, Virgin MiFi 2200, and snag one of these for $149. You'll be checking out my blog from your '69 Mustang zipping along the freeway in no time.
Update: I wrote this blog post 1 week ago and in that time I got so excited I went ahead and picked up this device.
ReplyDeleteIt's got "decent" speed and the little box is pretty cool looking. It does what it claims to do.
I can't hook it up to my Linus netbook yet but I'm working on it.
$40 bucks for one months of data, all you can eat. In a few days of using it I chewed my way thru 140 megs of garbage.
Chad