Mi-Fi on Three
Today the Mi-Fi was released nation wide across 3 stores. Three is the first company to released the mobile wireless router technology in the UK after the Novatel Mi-Fi has been a hit with mobile internet users in the USA The Mi-Fi or Mobile Wi-Fi is a device that lets you connect devices like a iPod Touch or a laptop to the internet without a USB port. It works by tacking in Three’s 3g or HSPDA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) network signal and transmitting it as a wireless internet in the form of Wi-Fi.
The benefit of having a Mi-Fi over a USB dongle is that you can connect devices that don’t have USB ports like netbooks, iPod Touch and PSP. Also you can connect 5 devices at the same time and you can keep it in your bag and not have to plug something in to your computer. The benefit of having a USB dongle over a M-Fi is firstly it is cheaper than a USB dongle, they normaly cost around £9.99 the MiFi is £70. Secondly there is more potential to go wrong with wireless people can hack it or if dropped it will break more easily than a more robust dongle. Third and finally dongles are sold by all providers when the Mifi is only on three and believe me that is not my first choice when it comes to phone couriers.
Today I can proudly boast I brought the third Mi-Fi ever sold in the UK and also I can proudly boast even though I can engross myself in the RSS and XML of setting up a podcast I can’t turn the damn thing on and connect it (it doesn’t help when you get two sets of instructions one telling you to put the sim in and charge it for 12 hours and one telling you to leave the sim out and then charge it.) Tomorrow i will post an article on it including connection speeds ease of use and network coverage but first I have the joy of speaking to Three customer support (waiting Two hours for someone in an Indian call centre with a crap microphone so I can’t understand him calling me Mrs Meyer (Thats because of your high pitched voice — Joe) giving me no advice just asking me to buy more stuff)
