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work from home on wireless? - ssophia

Posted: Oct 05, 2011

Can you work from home on wireless? Every company I have spoken with has told me no.

No. Wireless connection isn't secure. - nm

Wireless through an aircard is very secure. - Some say even more so than cable.

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I had wireless EVDO through Sprint and it was very secure as all transmissions were encrypted before being sent.

I don't know why companies won't consider this as my wireless internet was also much more reliable than my cable with less outages. If it did go out, which was rare, it was only for 5 minutes or so, unlike my cable which is going out at least once a week for an hour or more. Wish I could get wireless here as I would switch back in a heartbeat. Luckily my companies allow wireless aircards.

What does an aircard cost? - mthead

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I have been staying at my mom's on the weekend while she is in the hospital and can not get into her network. She's elderly and has kept poor notes. I need to work while I'm up there but haven't been able to, and it looks like I'll be up there every weekend for the foreseeable future. My husband suggested an aircard but I haven't looked into it yet.

I have Verizon wireless. sm - CrispyCritterMT

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I live in a rural area and its either that or satellite. I have a modem I use for my home computer which doesn't have WiFi setup. It runs $60 a month for 5 G. I also have MiFi secure WiFi I can use for either laptop or desktop that runs $50 a month for 5 G. I can also use the modem for the laptop. I had to get 2 because I kept running over because I use it for a lot of other things besides work.

I used Sprint and aircard was free and it was $60 a month for unlimited data. - nm

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nm

YES, you set up a private secure passworded connection. All my - companies have allowed this. They do it too.

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That's for working at home with a router. For being on the road - a wireless card, as the other poster stated, is exclusive and private as well.

wireless - MarineMom

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They told me that the headache going wireless would be more hassle than the benefit. I have a laptop and I do have a wireless modem for that and the PS3's that we have, but as for the home tower and computer tower, they are plugged into the modem.

wireless - ssophia

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Thanks for all the info. Now that I know some companies will allow it, I can try harder to find one of them.

We have cable modem but a wireless network in our house - for all the computers (7)

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Our wireless system is encrypted, passworded, and very secure, though I have my computer hard-wired into the computer so I don't have to compete for bandwidth with the other computers.

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