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Working from the pub with the MiFi

I am sitting in the quintessential English pub in Angel. Believe it or not I’m tangling with a particularly annoying SQL query for WordPress on behalf of a client. And I’m doing so, using my MacBook Air and MiFi unit. You see the Air doesn’t have a built in sim card (like my tiny Dell) so you are dependent on wifi. Whilst the pub does have BTOpenzone, where the fun in that? I’m using my MiFi to give me my brilliantly wicked mobile hotspot! Total genius.

4 COMMENTS

  1. How does the faff of keeping this charged compare with the faff of instead plugging your handset into your laptop and tethering over USB?

    Ok so that does mean that you need a handset capable of tethering; but I figure that with something like an HTC Hero you're going to have the thing plugged into the laptop to charge it anyway.

  2. I suppose it is yet another device to keep charged (miniusb). I find the faff of actually tethering on a mobile to be a real bind. And I don't like the dramatic effect it has on my primary handset's battery. I also like the fact I can have up to 5 devices using the MiFi (one or two phones, a laptop or two) — although I've just been using it for this afternoon.

    It's apparently rated for 4 hours usage … I've been using it for 2 hours straight and it's still going…

  3. How does the faff of keeping this charged compare with the faff of instead plugging your handset into your laptop and tethering over USB?

    Ok so that does mean that you need a handset capable of tethering; but I figure that with something like an HTC Hero you're going to have the thing plugged into the laptop to charge it anyway.

  4. I suppose it is yet another device to keep charged (miniusb). I find the faff of actually tethering on a mobile to be a real bind. And I don't like the dramatic effect it has on my primary handset's battery. I also like the fact I can have up to 5 devices using the MiFi (one or two phones, a laptop or two) — although I've just been using it for this afternoon.

    It's apparently rated for 4 hours usage … I've been using it for 2 hours straight and it's still going…

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