What is the new Cradlepoint? Is it still Cradlepoint?

[B. Dean Berry]

Just thinking about this thread -

I use an older Dell D630 laptop, and had a bunch of parts husks sitting around. I noticed that it had internal room for two WiFi radios, and installed a second board. Well, there it is. Pops up another radio/connection in the connections manager. So there's another way to ride on more than one connection at a time. If I put my Sprint 3G card in the computer, that is available, too, making 3.

 

[Mark Blue]

Is your Sprint a SIM card? I've upgraded the WiFi card in a notebook before and the form factors are quite different. Maybe your Dell had a slot for SIM cards...

 

[B. Dean Berry]

No. My Sprint card is a Sprint Sierra Wireless Aircard-402. It's an EVDO Rev. A device, so 3G, and the form factor is PCMCIA. Sprint's the last US major carrier still running their CDMA-based 3G network.

I mean, though, the Dell laptops of that era have two internal spots for a standard WiFi radio, but only one of them is filled, so you have a place to put a second WiFi radio, and can maintain more than one connection at a time.

 

[TJKLECKNER]

Wifi radio ports isn't the problem. If you have plenty of USB ports, and the multi software, a handful of these is all you need to multi connect to you hotspots

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