674: A Reliable, Boring Partner
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Gentlemen, I got to tell you, ubiquity giveth and ubiquity taketh away. Oh, no. So we're doing a very abridged birthday trip for Michaela. She turned eight on Sunday, which is impossible. But here we are. And we're going out of town for a couple of nights over the weekend. And I did the thing that I love to do when we go out of town, which is I go to one of the local libraries and I borrow a hotspot. And as I've said many times on the show, our actual library offers T-Mobile hotspots that you can borrow. And a neighboring county, which is like a little under a half an hour drive from me, offers Verizon hotspots. And these counties have reciprocity with each other for library cards and things like that.
And so if I have the time and the inclination, I'll usually go to the library. further away county to get the verizon hotspot and i did that and aaron went with me a couple of days ago we got her library card at the other library so now i can like stage two different hotspots on hold like ready and waiting to go i'm very excited about this this is this is what makes me happy right especially around football season and because i use these hotspots you know to get internet to the tv and whatnot when we're tailgating anyways i get home And I have the opportunity, I guess this was yesterday, and I have the opportunity to try out the Hotspot with my shiny new Ubiquiti travel router that I'm so excited about, right?
And this travel router has worked no sweat with tethering to my phone. It has worked no sweat tethering to my iPad. All has been good so far. And I connect it to the Verizon Hotspot and it says, can you please plug in the internet?
How does borrowing hotspots enhance travel experiences?
I did. I did plug in the internet. Now, admittedly, this was while Verizon was dying. So I thought, oh, perhaps that's the problem. But it turns out, I tried again today after Verizon rose from the dead, and it still is asking, please connect the internet. I was so excited to have my sweet new Ubiquiti travel router to bring with me, and I still will, and it still works, and it can still rebroadcast the hotspot's Wi-Fi, but I was connecting it via USB-C, which I prefer for a bunch of unimportant reasons, and it didn't freaking work, and I'm having a sad.
Does it have an Ethernet jack on the hotspot or no?
Not on the hotspot, unfortunately. There are hotspots where this exists. In fact, you might have or did have one. I have one. Okay, there you go. This is a Verizon Jetpack, I think. I don't remember the model number. But it's actually not a bad hotspot, and it has USB-C on it, in contrast to most of the T-Mobile ones that I get, which have, what is it, micro-USB? The god-awful one that won't go away. And so that's very annoying. But then I plugged the same hotspot into one of my GLiNet travel router things, and it worked no problem. oh no so i'm sure this is a software problem with the ubiquity travel router i'm sure it will get resolved at some point but probably not before my trip this weekend so all is really fine in the grand scheme of things but it's the little things gentlemen it's the little things i was so excited for my shiny new white plastic toy and it's not going to work the way i want it to it'll still work like i said i can rebroadcast the hotspots wi-fi but it's
I mean, that's not going to be your limiting factor, especially with Verizon being down for a day. Yeah, exactly. No, that's too bad. So I have the Netgear, whatever the second most recent Netgear AT&T 5G router is. And it's... fine. It functions as a piece of consumer electronics. It's garbage. But the function of a portable 5G hotspot that creates Wi-Fi or over Ethernet broadcast wherever you are I have so many uses for this all the time. And in fact, since the iPhone 17 Pro has broken iPhone tethering for me, which is still not fixed, I've been using it more and more. Oh, my God.
Because it's working fine for me. I'm not trying to say you're wrong by any stretch. I'm just saying it's not everyone, apparently, because it works fine for me.
I'm very annoyed. So in the meantime, I've just been carrying this hotspot whenever I go anywhere outside of the house and want to use my laptop.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–1:38
2
How does borrowing hotspots enhance travel experiences?
1:38–5:45
3
What issues arise with the Ubiquiti travel router?
5:45–37:41
4
What are the implications of using mobile hotspots versus tethering?
37:41–1:00:10
5
How does pricing impact the appeal of image editing applications?
1:00:10–1:01:57
6
What are the implications of Apple's subscription model for software?
1:01:57–1:03:50
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How does Apple plan to enhance Siri with Google technology?
1:03:50–1:08:04
8
What are the challenges and benefits of using Vision Pro for sports viewing?
1:08:04–2:01:22