I’ve been using my Verizon Mifi 2200, the portable broadband modem and wifi hot spot, all over the place for the past four months and it’s been doing just what it’s supposed to do. It connects quickly and gets my laptop, iPod Touch or any other kind of net surfing device online. I already raved about it in my review back on May 20 and I’m not going to repeat all that again here.
But I did want to note one more advantage the Mifi has over other portable broadband solutions. Since you don’t have to plug the Mifi into your computer (except when you first activate it), there’s no need for any driver software. As long as your computer or other device has wifi, you can get online. That turned out to be a big plus the other day when I upgraded my Macbook Pro to Snow Leopard aka OS X 10.6. Some folks with standard plug-in mobile broadband products had immediate problems with driver incompatibilities. But not Mifi. It could care less what operating system you run.
A related side-benefit is it’s easier to share the Mifi, too. My wife went on a business trip with her Windows-based work laptop. It would have been a bear to install any new drivers on such a locked down machine. But with Mifi, it doesn’t matter. Cool.
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