{"id":151734,"date":"2010-01-07T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/07\/sprint-overdrive-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:22:37","slug":"sprint-overdrive-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151734","title":{"rendered":"Sprint Overdrive 4G mobile hotspot unboxing and hands-on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08odpage.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We just grabbed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/overdrive\">Sprint Overdrive<\/a> 3G \/ 4G mobile hotspot and put it through some quick tests. If you&#8217;re used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/mifi\">MiFi<\/a>, you know the drill here &#8212; you boot it up, it connects to either WiMAX or EVDO, and broadcasts a WiFi signal for up to five devices. Two things make it far more awesome than a MiFi, however: first, the LCD, which displays the numeric wireless password and data throughput; and second, the bandwidth, which peaked at around 4mbps down over WiMAX here in Vegas. (Uploads were slower at around .8mbps, though.) Yes, we&#8217;re in love &#8212; we&#8217;ve been testing Clear WiMAX here in Vegas and finding it pretty spotty, so the ability to seamlessly drop down to EVDO on the fly is much appreciated. We&#8217;re going to throw the Overdrive right into the fire and use it as a part of our mobile CES workflow tomorrow, we&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/\">Sprint Overdrive 3G \/ 4G mobile hotspot unboxing and hands-on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/2595967\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08overdrivehands_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/2595966\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08overdrivehands-1_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/2595965\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08overdrivehands-2_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/2595964\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08overdrivehands-3_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/photos\/sprint-overdrive-3g-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/2595962\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/2010-01-08overdrivehands-4_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/07\/sprint-overdrive-4g-mobile-hotspot-unboxing-and-hands-on\/\">Sprint Overdrive 4G mobile hotspot unboxing and hands-on<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:08:00 EST.  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If you&#8217;re used a MiFi, you know the drill here &#8212; you boot it up, it connects to either WiMAX or EVDO, and broadcasts a WiFi signal for up to five devices. Two things make it far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}