{"id":529828,"date":"2010-04-16T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=62149"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:11:45","slug":"working-with-the-sprint-overdrive-4g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529828","title":{"rendered":"Working With the Sprint Overdrive 4G"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am working away in the local coffee shop but not partaking of the Wi-Fi, at least not the store’s. I brought my own Wi-Fi in the shape of the little Sprint Overdrive 3G\/4G modem<\/a>. I have been evaluating the Overdrive for a few days<\/a> and this morning I did something crazy — I went to a Sprint store and bought one. I never could get the evaluation unit to connect to the Sprint 4G network near me, and reached the point I was confident the unit was defective. So I got my own to replace my Verizon MiFi and its measly 3G connectivity.<\/p>\n

I have been on the Sprint 4G network for all of two hours and it is as good as I thought it would be. The speed with my MacBook is outstanding, I am seeing around 3 Mbps downloads and almost 1 Mbps uploads. This speed is being served to both my MacBook and my iPad over the Overdrive’s Wi-Fi routing capability, and with one exception it is working great.<\/p>\n

I can tell that working on a laptop over 4G is almost as good as my high-speed connection at home. Once connected things pop, and it doesn’t feel like a mobile solution at all. It is game changing, frankly.<\/p>\n

The Overdrive is configurable using any web browser over the internal Wi-Fi connection. I am going to experiment with this configuration as I am seeing a problem with the iPad maintaining a connection to the modem for very long. I have seen others reporting this problem online, and my gut feeling is it is due to the Overdrive handling multiple Wi-Fi protocols. By default it auto-switches between 802.11 b and g (no draft-n, unfortunately), and my gut tells me this switching is what is giving the iPad problems staying connected. I am going to force the Overdrive to work in 802.11g only and see how that works.<\/p>\n

The Overdrive automatically connects to the Sprint 4G network when it is detected, and drops down to the 3G (EVDO) network when 4G is not available. This makes it a total replacement for the MiFi, with the additional benefit of 4G. Throw in the unlimited data on 4G and it is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

Right this moment I have my MacBook, iPad and iPhone 3G all connected to Sprint 4G using the Overdrive, and life is good. I love mobile tech.<\/p>\n

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