Me and my MiFi
without commentsAfter moving apartment (again) and being without broadband until it gets activated, I was in desperate need of some internet access. My life as a freelancer kind of depends on this…
I was faced with the following possibilities:
- Spend all my days in Starbucks making the most of my rewards card and either bankrupting myself or dying from over-caffienation.
- ‘Drop by’ friends and acquaintances offices/homes and consume their Internets – I don’t have many of these. Could be a problem.
- Rent a hotdesk at one or two known locations around the city. ~£17 a day is, however, what nightmares are made of.
Fortunately, thanks to Mr @jonthebeef and his recent trip to Japan, I learnt about the wondrous MiFi, which is simply a portable WiFi hotspot that connects to a 3G or even faster high speed internet HSDPA (You don’t want to know what that stands for. Trust me). Read the rest of this entry »