Modems

Clearwire Rover: Pay As You Go WiMax By the Day, Week, or Month

Clearwire just launched Rover, a no-contract service that offers unlimited WiMax goodness for $5 a day, $20 a week, or $50 a month, along with two new WiMax modems. Yep, get ready to start topping up your 4G. The service is launching in all of Clearwire’s WiMax markets with two modems: a $99 USB stick…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 30

Clear’s iSpot Is a WiMax Hotspot For iPhones and iPads

With more cities being blanketed in the warm glow of WiMax every month, 3G speeds are going to start seeming primitive, fast. Clear’s iSpot hotspot lets iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches get a taste of the delicious 4G future. Clear’s iSpot can serve as a hotspot for up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices at a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 4

Clearwire Adds a Dual-Mode 4G/3G Modem for Macs

Sticking to their word about not giving up unlimited data plans, Clearwire’s new 4G/3G dongle is compatible with Macs for the first time, and dances out alongside two more new modems offering up 4G unlimited data/Wi-Fi. A couple new Wi-Fi/4G CLEAR hot spot sticks have also been unleashed, all with unlimited data usage. Data plans…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 17

Motorola WiMax Dock Boosts Your USB Modem’s Reception and Morale

If your USBw 200 WiMax modem is feeling lonely and is looking for a spooning partner, this new dock is the perfect companion. In addition to matching the modem to a T, it also boosts its reception significantly. As of now the device is only slated for plug and play use with Windows, and it…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 10

Man Sells Hacked Comcast Modems to FBI, Gets Up to 20 Years in Prison

Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things. Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult. He was just modifying modems’ MAC addresses to match those…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 29

Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax

Sprint’s partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-and-clearwire-marriage-official-wimax-network-b-5100394 The modem, called the U300, will be first available to customers of the Sprint/Clearwire “Clear” WiMax network in Baltimore, where their pilot program is under way. The…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 17

‘Biggest Military Hack of All Time’ Was Done Over a 56k Connection

Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into military computers looking for evidence of UFOs in the “biggest military hack of all time,” did so using his home computer and a 56k modem. I think we just lost our rights to complain about not having Japan-fast broadband. Using his own computer at home in London,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 2

Sony Ericsson’s HSPA Modems Triple-Up as Card Readers, GPS Receiver

Sony Ericsson is joining the mobile internet dongle game with the new MD400 and MD400g USB modems. Both are pretty diminutive, and pack a folding antenna and retracting USB plug to keep the size down, and both have HSPA connectivity with 7.2Mb/s download and 2.0Mb/s upload speeds. They also have card-reader slots, for MemoryStick Micro…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 17

Motorola CPEi300 and CPEi800 WiMax Modems Surprisingly Slick

WiMax modems. The phrase doesn’t generally conjure gadget lust, which is why I’m so confused looking at these better than well designed WiMax modems from Moto. The silver and droid-like CPEi300 is a desktop modem based on Intel’s 2250 Rosedale 2 chipset, compatible with 802.16e-2005, which TG Daily spells out as the 2.3, 2.5 and…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 26

Clearwire Rover: Pay As You Go WiMax By the Day, Week, or Month

Clear’s iSpot Is a WiMax Hotspot For iPhones and iPads

Clearwire Adds a Dual-Mode 4G/3G Modem for Macs

Motorola WiMax Dock Boosts Your USB Modem’s Reception and Morale

Man Sells Hacked Comcast Modems to FBI, Gets Up to 20 Years in Prison

Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax

‘Biggest Military Hack of All Time’ Was Done Over a 56k Connection

Sony Ericsson’s HSPA Modems Triple-Up as Card Readers, GPS Receiver

Motorola CPEi300 and CPEi800 WiMax Modems Surprisingly Slick

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