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Doju

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Jun 16, 2008
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Heya! I live in Nova Scotia, Canada, and am wondering how to get internet on my MBA and/or MBP when I'm away from home, away from WiFi. Particularly at school, there's no WiFi, so I'm left without internet.

I have an iPhone on Rogers, but there's no 3G in my area. Only EDGE, so tethering would be ridiculously slow, right?

Can I do anything to get faster-than-EDGE speeds? What are my options?
 
Is there ethernet at your school? How about a router? Or if you specifically can't use wifi, how about a bluetooth router?
 
It seems to be like your only option would be to tether the iPhone on EDGE. The speeds wouldn't be that awful, especially if you were just using google and wikipedia and staying away from Youtube and other data intensive sites.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

How long would it take for Google or Wiki to load? I'll check out the Bluetooth and Ethernet options but MBA doesn't have Ethernet so it wouldn't be that elpful anyway.

Thanks guys.
 
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