If you are the adventurous type and want 4G wireless (and it is available in your place of residence), you now have a few more options, thanks to your friendly neighborhood hackerz. If 4G WiMAX from Sprint is what your are after, you can pick up the Clear iSpot for $100 and connect all of your (up to 8 ) iOS devices to it for $25/month (deal!). However a simple hack allows you to take it a bit further and connect those bandwidth-heavy Macs (and PCs and Androids and Linux if you are into that sort of thing) to your $25/month iSpot. The hack releases the MAC address restrictions which ironically include the latest batch of iPads…yes that’s right, it will only work as intended if hacked. Be warned however that Sprint could take it all away with an over the air update to their little iSpot…unless you are savvy enough to change your Mac MAC address. If, for whatever reason, you were after Verizon’s USB 4G Wireless service on your Macs, you are officially out of luck. However, a hack developed within the gardens of Howard Forums allows one of the two USB Modems (Pantech) to work on the Mac. Verizon is said to be working on an official Mac version of the drivers for both modems so this would just be a holdover until the better drivers/setup come along. Now, is anyone thinking about replacing their Broadband connection with 4G Wireless? *Note, however, that the Verizon 4G modems still have an issue where the switching from 3G to 4G takes 2 minutes (which is two minutes too long).
