WIFI Sprint Hotspot. Watch out!

@Skate-Board, I actually use my phone as my hot spot. I only connect a iPad or iPod occasionally when I am at home. I stuck it out with Sprint through a long waiting time to get 4G in my area since like you I have been a long time Sprint/Nextel customer. I am glad I did because when it went live here..........holy crap!! The speed is amazing.

On the lackluster 3G I got into the habit of leaving my hot spot on as I would usually fall asleep with it on. I do my best not to do that with the 4G as it munches the data.

I had been thinking of getting a Sprint hot spot like you posted but my phone thing seems to be quite reliable. I am not under Sprint contract any longer and like it that way. I am doing considerable research before I re up with Sprint. I used 12833205 Kbytes with two days remaining on my billing cycle. Major overages!!

I know now this doesn't relate directly to your thread but I wanted to share my Sprint experience and thank you for useful info on research I have been doing. Thanks!

 

It's weird with my Sprint phone and Sprint Hotspot. I can have a full signal on my phone and nothing on the hotspot and the other way around? Confused about that. I pay $140 a month for my phone and hotspot. The phone is unlimited everything and the hotspot is 6 gig a month. I just read email and surf. Nothing really heavy.

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I always turn my hotspot off when I am not using it. It is locked, but I still worry about someone using my data and running my bills up.

 

I like to change the name of my hotspot once in a while

 

i think someone would be more likely to torrent porn on that one!

 

I looked at the WiFi available on my phone one day, In a residential neighborhood and saw one that said FBI surveilance van.

Without hesitation I turned off the WiFi on my phone and looked around for a van , and I wasn't even doing anything wrong.

 

Ha ha ha ha.....Go to Petro in Fargo. The apartment complex across the street is "Ur Mama is so Fat"

 

a lot of signal problems can be the type of radio chips in the devices.

when i had sprint, i bought both my boy and i. my phone worked better then his. sometimes he had a hard time with signal. in the same areas. where as i wasn't.

we tried verizon for a week. and the phone he got worked better then mine. signal wise. don't remember his model but mine was the blackberry storm. first touch screen phone and first to offer 3g. needless to say, it was very slow compared to my 1xevdo blackberry sprint phone i had at the time.

2 different phones with 2 different carriers. one phone worked better then the other.

 

I bet I know why. You left your hotspot on, and you dont have a password set on your network, so someone found your network by turning their wifi on and connected to it and downloaded on your dollar.

sucks to be you, but you gotta set good passwords on your hotspot devices so that only your devices can connect to them.

 

How do I set a password? Do I need one? I named my hotstop something that only I would know so anyone else would have to know the name to hook up to it so that can't be it. It's sort of a complicated name with upper and lowercase letters and a number.