Broadband Card Review

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If you use a broadband card to surf the web, send email, or play games over the internet, you may long for a way to get all your computers and devices online at one time, especially if you share your broadband card with family or friends.  Setting up a wifi network with a broadband card has not been doable for most people until just recently.

Then the Cradlepoint or mobile cellular router came along.  People who have high-speed internet, either through cable or DSL, have been doing this for years.   A lot of my friends have this option available to them, and they use a wifi router to surf the net from anywhere in their homes.  This was not possible for people with an broadband card until cellular routers (also known by the trademarked name, Cradlepoint) came along.

A cellular router or mobile router is basically a router designed just for broadband cards.  Instead of connecting the broadband card to your laptop or desktop, you connect the card to the Cradlepoint, and it creates a wifi signal that can connect any computer in the area to the internet through the broadband card.

I live way out in the country so I didn’t think I could get a quick internet connection, or have a wifi connection in my house.  Broadband cards made it possible for people in the rural parts of the country to get a speedy internet connection, and now Cradlepoints are making wifi a possible for people in rural areas. The same holds true for folks that travel all the time, live on the road out of a camper or RV, or anyone who just wants a back up in case other web connections falter.

Like other wifi routers, the mobile equivalent has built-in features to protect your computer and all your data from hackers and nosy neighbors.  A firewall or double firewall provides protection. Virtual private network technology (VPN for short) is also included in many Cradlepoints to make your connection even more secure.

There is also at least one benefit to making use of a broadband card and a 3G router instead of using the regular old router.  They’re extremely portable.  These devices can go anyplace, if there’s a cellular signal and electricity.  Some use batteries, but most use a wall jack or car jack.  By using a car jack, more than one passenger can get on the information super highway while riding in a car on the actual highway.

Broadband cards changed the way people got on the internet.  In turn, 3G routers are changing wifi from stationary to mobile and making wifi networks possible in out-of-the-way places.