Wi Fi Hotspot has gone ...

The entire reason we ended up in a Sprint plan, was due to our first exposure to the Wi Fi hotspot from the smart phone.  After 'country DSL', Satellite, US Cellular Data Cards ... we ended up with the Unlimited data connection from the EVO smart phone on Sprint.

It was the fastest thing we had experienced out here in the sticks, and still is.  Until the next piece of technology comes along, this is working just great!

The downside?  We paid $30 a month for this service on top of the plan for that single phone to sit on our counter ... so tax and all that was about $92 a month.  Unacceptable.

Fast forward to today.  Now we all have an Android in the house, and Corinne carries that EVO as her phone.  The $30 Hotspot was shut off months ago, since we all have our own high speed device.

We quickly found PDANet, a free app from the market that allows you to connect your Android to a computer so that the computer can use the phones data connection (internet).  To use the full throttle version of PDANet, after 30 days, you have to pay a one time fee of $15.

Today, I open PDANet to do some surfing with my MacBook and I see a new option - Wi Fi!

What!  This was once only a 'root' option - let's check this out.  I follow the prompts, read the fine print ... and voila, it's now available without root!

Download the little piece it needs from the market (it tells/shows you how), start it up and BOOM!

Now have free Wi Fi Hotspot emitting from my Samsung Galaxy SII :)  Happy place.