Someday, they’ll build wireless Internet into every building, just the way they build in running water, heat and electricity today. Someday, we won’t have to drive around town looking for a coffee shop when we need to check our e-mail.
If you want ubiquitous Internet today, though, you have several choices. They’re all compromised and all expensive.
You could get online using only a smartphone, but you’ll pay at least $80 a month and you’ll have to view the Internet through a shrunken keyhole of a screen. You could equip your laptop with one of those cellular air cards or U.S.B. sticks, which cost $60 a month, but you’d be limited to 5 gigabytes of data transfer a month (and how are you supposed to gauge that?). You could use tethering, in which your laptop uses your cellphone as a glorified Internet antenna — but that adds $20 or $30 to your phone bill, has a fixed data limit and eats through your phone’s battery charge in an hour. Mobile Hotspot: Connect up to 5 Wi-Fi enabled devices to the 3G wireless internet. No contract.Wi-Fi Connect up to 5 Wi-Fi enabled wireless devices. One-touch connectivity.data usage per activity is based on an average. Bandwidth varies by website, video, email and other Internet application. Connect from 30-40 feet away.Password-protected connection. *Virgin Mobile customers have access to the Sprint® 3G network reaching more than 262 million people. Speed varies based on location and coverage with average downlink data speeds between 600 and 1400 Kbps. Virgin Mobile does not restrict your speeds based on data usage caps.
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