Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

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When I left off in my last posting, I was going to chase down the last vestiges of malware still apparently lurking on Phil’s MacBook Pro from the DNS Changer trojan horse. Even though I’d eliminated the installer, what it installed was still creating some kind of traffic back to a couple of IP addresses [...]

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This afternoon I had a call from Verizon’s sales, following up on our recent purchase of one of their AirCards and data plan. I told the rep that while we had no technical problems with the setup, and were actually pretty happy with it, their 5 GB cap is completely inadequate. In fact, four days [...]

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So now we know we need that amplifier. If you haven’t been following this blog, you might wonder what kind of amp is under discussion. Your best bet would be to start here and work forward in time to get the gist.
Back now? Good. OK, what convinced me was watching the “Cellular Signal Strength” indicator [...]

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We are on the road between Vernon and Amarillo, Texas, a few miles east of Childress, and while the road (US 287) is pretty good, 4-lane and pretty smooth, with not much traffic, the AT&T cellphone reception on our iPhones is pretty nearly non-existent, and it took several minutes for the Verizon data card to [...]

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OK, the antenna, data card and modem are working fine, but the mid-sized 12-volt inverter we’ve got can’t handle the laptop and the modem at the same time if the laptop’s battery is low, so we need another solution. We’ll be stopping in Amarillo tomorrow, and maybe we can find a bigger one there at [...]

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I said I’d report on the new mobile router, modem & antenna we bought this week, so here you are. It’s all good! At least so far.
Right now we have the router (with the USB modem sticking out the side of it) sitting on the dashboard of our RV:

Connected to the modem is the [...]

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