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I really like Rogers Mobility products and services - but that is another rant - so when they called me up and offered me a sweet deal on a Mobile Internet Stick I took them up on it. When I went to a local Rogers store and picked one up the sales person said, "this took a Mac expert from Westworld Computers and me four hours to get running on a Mac - you better get their help."

Now we both know that there is no possible way that this is a four hour job. Especially when you think about who makes the "Stick" for Rogers: it is a Novatel Wireless Ovation MC950D. Novatel Wireless has been a Mac-Friendly company for years and they will definitely have drivers. So I took a quick look at their website and not only did they have drivers, but they also have put together a guide on how to get the "Stick" up and running. I grabbed their drivers and was up and running on Leopard in 4 minutes not four hours. 

Painless.

At my house I can get about 3.6Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up. To put that into perspective it is faster than Telus ADSL. It is faster than their so called High Speed Enhanced Internet and when the Rogers network is upgraded to 7.2 Mbps it will be faster than their so called High Speed Extreme Internet.

In case you have never done this before there are a bunch of settings that are required to get things running. You need to type in the Account Name and the Password. You will also need to go into the advanced settings and set your APN.

Account Name: wapuser1

Password: wap

APN: internet.com