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Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot
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#42Wasn't there a guy in Australia who got his house raided for having Tor exit servers? How long is it going to take before people use this for something like child pornography and you go to jail?
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#43note that this is clearwire wimax only - a network that is actively shrinking as they transition to lte and their partner (sprint) decommissions iDen cells. You can get a similar price item with better connectivity but without the gimmicks from sprint's budget brand: $79 for a wimax+3g hotspot, $35/mo for 2 gigs of 3g data on sprint (evdo rev a) and "unlimited" wimax. or $5/day for 200mb/"unlimited"(activated for jus…
While the Virgin Mobile hotspot is a good deal its service can be worse than Clear, despite piggybacking on it. I have a Clear Apollo hotspot ($50/m, unlimited WiMax). Recently I used mine side-by-side with a friend's VM hotspot. I got 4/5 bars with 8Mbit/1Mbit. He got 2/5 bars and couldn't maintain a connection. It's possible my device has a better antenna than his but that doesn't seem like the issue since my signal was so strong.
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#44YES! Bought. So disruptive. Goodbye dumbphone. Hellloooo karma. Skipped right over the buying smartphone "minutes" and "text" nonsense.
Genius marketing model. If I get to customize the SSID it'll be something like: "yourkarma.com, use this wifi!". SSID can only be 32 characters. A shorter, recognizable domain like "kar.ma" would be awesome. More space for cleverness.
Living in a busy apartment complex near the center of downtown Portland, close to a couple coffee shops... visitors at all the neighboring apartments.... I wonder if I'll ever have to actually buy data directly.
The train station in Portland doesn't have any wifi. Talk the staff into letting you run a cord to one of the lockers. Or several. Win-win! Also, the university. They do have guest access, but it's annoying to login.
So many places to stash these. The possibilities are endless!
Minor quibble: says "We'll give you 1GB for free" on splash page. Actually only gives 100MB.
Re: Karma - pay as you go data by sharing your hotspot
#45But isn't that exactly what http://www.fon.com/ has been doing for several years already?
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#46A good idea but with far too little bandwidth. 1GB / 100MB is nothing. Between syncing git repos, remote backup, Dropbox, and heavy web browsing (not including Netflix) I go through at least 5GB a day. I'll stick with Clear's own access point at $50/m for unlimited access. It works pretty well in most cities but can be sensitive to positioning.
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#47note that this is clearwire wimax only - a network that is actively shrinking as they transition to lte and their partner (sprint) decommissions iDen cells. You can get a similar price item with better connectivity but without the gimmicks from sprint's budget brand: $79 for a wimax+3g hotspot, $35/mo for 2 gigs of 3g data on sprint (evdo rev a) and "unlimited" wimax. or $5/day for 200mb/"unlimited"(activated for jus…
"sprint's budget brand: $79 for a wimax+3g hotspot" I had to look for it, but here it is, apparently Sprint uses the Virgin brand name in the US: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/mobile-broadband/broadba... I'll be in the US for the rest of the year, so I'm buying one of these - way cheaper than international roaming. Thanks for the tip!
Had intended to include a link - my bad & thanks for providing it.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the question is whether two devices connected to the same hotspot can send packets to each other. Ideally, you want to isolate them as much as possible, letting them connect only to the Internet.
Thanks for the clarification. I now understand the parent's point and it's a valid concern. However, for a first launch, I'm wildly speculating that they didn't consider this. If you're going to share your bandwidth and are concerned about this, Karma will probably suggest that you disconnect from your own portal. Karma's reasoning is probably as follows: * Connecting via wifi usually implies a mobile device of some…
That's indeed what I'm referring to. However, for me there is a difference between connecting to a public wifi spot and my own mobile hotspot. I do agree that knowing exactly who connects is an advantage. Just something to keep in mind when you sign up with them.
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#49This looks like another result of CLEAR opening up their network for other vendors to sell their data. Freedompop is doing a similar thing, just without the Karma component to it. Nice to see what happens when a company like CLEAR opens things up -- all sorts of innovation springs.
Except the CLEAR network blows. I used to have a couple retail stores and sold them off because I felt terrible getting so many complaints about service quality and could see the company already declining as key investors were pulling out. The nodes were initially unsaturated and speedy -- you could often get 15-20mbps on mobile hotspot. Now people are lucky to get 512kbps on their home modems in moderately dense res…
Out of curiosity, do you know if this is more due to wimax cell saturation or backhaul limitations?
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#50If it is truly facebook only, that eliminates this for me. Too bad.