I have an addiction. And the extent of my addiction has recently come to my attention. My name is Jake and I am addicted to the Internet. Whether it’s so that I can blog, or tweet or run my websites, I don’t like to be away from the online world for too long.
To satisfy this unrelenting craving I decided to invest in a Sony Vaio P Series portable PC. This is a small and easily portable laptop that has built in mobile broadband connectivity. The result would be that I never needed to be offline ever again.
But I never bought it.
Why?
I went to the Sony Centre with my Chinese friend Kelvin so that we could negotiate like chinamen and get the £800 netbook for closer to £500. And there’s no doubt that Kelvin is good at saving money. But in this case it turned out that his approach to saving money was to find an alternative route to the same functionality.
What I ended up with was a 3 portable modem with MiFi. This is a small device about the size of a small mobile phone which can connect to the Internet much like a mobile dongle. But the difference is there are no wires. It promises to create a miniature wireless network that several netbooks, or iTouches can connect to at the same time. But does it work? Read the rest of this entry »
