Karma Mobile WiFi
My brother-in-law turned me onto a WiFi hotspot device called Karma that's being released in December. I work on the road a few weeks a year and if Karma works as advertised, I'll be able to work in my car and I won't have to rely on abysmally slow hotel/airport/cafe WiFi networks.
Karma previously sold a WiFi hotspot, but it didn't run on LTE networks. Their new device is set to be shipped in December and can be pre-ordered now. If you pre-order one today you can get it for $99 instead of $149. And if you use this link you'll get an additional $10 off (and I'll get $10 of data credits):
https://yourkarma.com/invite/kevin23643 Other Details
- No contract
- Pay as you go data - $14/GB
- Runs over the Sprint LTE and CDMA network (view coverage)
- Your Karma connection is shared with other Karma users
- If other Karma users use your connection you get data credits
Karma kind of downplays the security risk of sharing a network connection, which concerns me a bit. Here's a related response from one of Karma's employees:
@nacin @kevincmarsden each client is isolated ("ap isolation" is what our CTO calls it), but a vpn will always be the most secure way to go.— Paul Miller (@futurepaul) October 14, 2014
In order to minimize the security risk, I'll just use a proxy or VPN whenever I'm connected to a Karma device.
I'm really looking forward to using it and I'll add a review once I get a chance to use it.