How To Turn Your Car Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot: Part Deux
My last installment of How to turn your car into a Wi-Fi Hotspot was very popular although the cost was not. This time, I've rounded up the latest and greatest in mobile Wi-Fi routers that are all the rage these days, and more affordable.
Kyocera's KR1 (D-Link DI-725) Mobile Router:
The KR1 Mobile Router allows you to create a wireless broadband network virtually anywhere. It uses 1xEV-DO as its WAN backhaul and functions like an access point supporting multiple computers and devices with high-speed wireless data services. All you need is a 1xEV-DO card or phone*. The KR1 Mobile Router is especially useful for mobile work groups such as dispatch teams, consultants, road-warrior sales groups, satellite offices, command posts, and more. It can also be used as a reliable alternative for fixed broadband services in your home.
Cost: $299.00
Highlights:
- Broadband connectivity and universal compatibility with a 1xEV-DO PC card or phone with tethered data capability enables you to set up a WiFi hotspot virtually anywhere*.
- Multiple users can share high-speed connections with rates up to 2.4 Mbps (typical download speed of 400-700 Kbps).
- Browser-based configuration and easy set-up wizard.
- Smooth migration to future 1xEV-DO releases.
Addition Features:
- Built-in 10/100 Mbps switch with 4 Ethernet ports
- Automatic receipt of IP addresses with DHCP server
- Easy setup and management of secured LAN with WPA-PSK (WiFi protected access with Pre-Shared Key)
- Access Control to manage users
- NAT with VPN pass-through
- Industry-leading firewall security
- User-friendly configuration and diagnostic utilities
- Operates in 2.4 GHz frequency range
- OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology
WAAV CM3:
Based on the popular WavBoard EV1 - one of the first cellular routers in the world - the WAAV CM3 is engineered to maintain a broadband speed Internet connection while in a moving vehicle. The mobile router provides an always-on connection, similar to cable or DSL, and allows multiple devices to be on-line at the same time.
Proven reliable up to 100 mph, users plug directly in using Ethernet or connect wireless via Wi-Fi. When the vehicle is stopped, the wireless connection remains available up to 300' away.
Cost: $379.00
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Top Global 3G Phoebus MB6000:
TOP Global 3G Phoebus is a patented, mobile/portable wireless router. 3G Phoebus is the industrial first and the most integrated WLAN and 3rd generation cellular (3G) solution for Home, Small Office and Home Office (SOHO). The products are simple to use and easily scalable. 3G phoebus is a 3G router for consumer market based on our MobileBridge? platform technology. It combines the best of Wi-Fi and 3G mobile communications technologies including CDMA 1x, EV-DO, EDGE, and UMTS and can be easily upgraded to support EV-DO Release A and HSDPA.
Cost: $299.00
Top Global MB7000 EVDO Mobile Router:
Top Global MB8000 Highly Integrated Wi-Fi and 2.5G/3G Mobile and Portable Hot Spot Solution
Top Global's MobileBridge™ is a patented, mobile/portable wireless communication gateway. MobileBridge™ is the industrial first and the most integrated WLAN and WWAN solution for Enterprise, Mobile Hot Spots, and WISPs. The product is secure, simple to use, and easily scalable to enable new applications of Wi-Fi.
Top Global mobile hot Spot solution based on MobileBridge™ combines the best of Wi-Fi technology and 2.5G/3G mobile communications technology. It leverages the existing and widely available 2.5G/3G infrastructures with the flexible, low cost and simple to use WLAN technology for enterprise applications and for rapid deployment of hot spots anywhere around the world. The solution comes with a complete suite of software package including security, network management, and AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting)
features.
Cost: $799.00
Junxion Box JB-110b
The Junxion Box™ wireless WAN router uses a patent-pending software platform to create an easy yet sophisticated, enterprise-grade, flexible and low-cost means of connecting fleets of computing devices like laptops, desktops, retail point of sale terminals and remote monitoring systems with the latest cellular data services from wireless carriers.
Cost: $699.95
Want to build your own portable Wi-Fi hotspot? Check out a previous DIY project post.
3G Phoebus can help you to connect high-speed cellular data network, and enables several laptops and computers to share one cellular data network link to access Internet with no requirements for drivers and interfaces.
