{"id":100,"date":"2009-11-03T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-11-03T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:25:00","slug":"best-dongle-evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/best-dongle-evah\/","title":{"rendered":"Best. Dongle. Evah."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sierra<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, work was getting more hectic and family matters required more travel, and I was getting frustrated going out to coffeehouses and delis just to get wireless Internet. So, signed up for an AT&T; wireless data plan<\/a>, complete with a little dongle by Sierra Wireless<\/a> that actually does the job of connecting to the Internet.<\/p>\n

I refused to get the two year contract just so I could get the dongle for free, because I was burned this time last year getting a two year contract just so I could get a cheap smartphone … right before the Search Engine That Starts With A G bought all of its employees Android smartphones<\/a>. <\/p>\n

SO I opted to instead to pay month to month, and as a consequence I had to pony up two hundred dollars for that little dongle. Because of the monthly fee, and how the math worked out, I stupidly did not spend the extra $5 bucks a month insuring the damn thing.<\/p>\n

I say stupidly, because I left it in my pocket and put my pants in the wash.<\/p>\n

My heart fell when I saw the cap of the dongle tumble out as I was emptying the clotheswasher. Sure enough, I found the dongle in the pocket of a pair of pants. Sadly, I took it to my Mac and plugged it in. The lights flickered for a moment, but did not come on. Just to be sure, since the Mac’s two USB ports are not equivalent, I switched it to the other side.<\/p>\n

The lights flickered … and then the power light turned blue, while the connection light turned red. Hoping against hope, I hit “Connect” on the Sierra Wireless Watcher control panel. The connection light began flashing … and a minute later, it connected<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Since I knew that liquid in electronic devices can sometimes cause problems down the road, I disconnected it, unplugged it, and put it front of a spaceheater to dry out more thoroughly, then a fan to cool it off. One day later, I’m writing this blog entry using this same dongle, and it’s doing fine.<\/p>\n

Go Sierra, and go AT&T; for picking a quality parts supplier.<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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