What to use to connect my iPad 2 to wi-fi?
Hi everyone - I'm travelling to Europe very soon with a wi-fi only iPad2. I'd like to buy something that would allow me to connect to wi-fi whenever I want and not have to rely or depend on the cyber cafes or other free wifi places. Can anybody tell me what I need to get? I'm currently in the USA.
Thanks!
Your only real choice then is some sort of mifi device - a device that connects to a cellular data network and shares the connection over wifi. It is basically what an iPhone does when functioning as a hotspot.
The problem though is, if you buy something here (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint - they all offer such things with data plans), you would need to pay roaming fees when overseas, so that will be a very expensive connection. You could get something once over there, and maybe use it with some sort of pre-pay plan or pay-as-you-go plan with a local carrier, which would presumably be cheaper. If you got an unlocked GSM mifi device, you may well be able to use it here with AT&T or T-Mobile once you got back (if it supported the right frequencies and everything).
It really will be as expensive as using a 3G iPad2 would be had you bought one of those instead of the wifi-only.
The only inexpensive or free way is to use inexpensive or free wifi.
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