New toys

I couldn’t resist. The prices were just too low and wimax too sexy. Clear (or Clearwire) is the wimax provider that is rolling out service far and wide across our vast US land. They had to start somewhere though and for some reason I don’t get, Vegas was one of the first 3 cities to get it. That is -awesome-, we never get stuff first! Our time has finally come though. With this bad boy (known as the Cradlepoint PHS300) I can go anywhere in the city and have a wifi connection to the Internet for me and 16 of my closest friends (within 100 ft of me). No looking around for a Coffee Bean or unsuspecting homeowners open wireless connection when I’m dragging a laptop and looking for a place to kill some time. My wireless connection goes where I do and is way faster than using a tethered phone. Especially with the truly ridiculously bad 3G speeds I’ve been getting lately. I just picked it up today but in initial testing it has been extremely positive. Not so well right at my house (I’m in an edge zone) but I watched youtube vids in Hawkins car all the way from lunch back to the office and it totally worked. Hey, why unplug if you don’t have to?