ex720 Sprint Broadband card and Macbook Pro

Today I was stranded at home, and my cable was severely degraded, unusable in fact. So I just bit the bullet and went to Sprint and bought an ex720 WWAN card, since it sounds workable on OSX.

I’m online on it right now. And it’s impressivley fast. 1.2Mbps down, 567Kbps up.

It’s pretty simple to get going with it, although the one annoying step in the process is the activation application has to be run in Windows XP. So you boot Bootcamp, install the drivers from CD, install the activation application from CD, enter in the card details, connect, done. Then stay in Windows, re-connect with the card, it auto-downloads new firmware and prompts you to update the card, do so, done. Reboot into OS X, insert card, and you’ll be online momentarily. Kinda nice.

Next to do are to work out why PPTP VPN doesn’t work over connection in OS X (it works in Windows) and then figure out how to access the built in GPS.

UPDATE: PPTP VPN working when routing table on OS X fixed.