5 ways to improve your security with your Overdrive Pro (Virgin Mobile)!

The OverDrive Pro

After a long hard search for my old Mifi Device,  I recently had to buy the Overdrive Pro (Virgin Mobile) mifi Card.  So I went out to find a replacement for my card and came to this.  I must say that with it having the option to have a way to increase Signal strength on the Mifi card by buying antenna’s for it.  It is a good deal for me.   I had a simple time getting it to work other than having to call Virgin Mobile Broadband (877-877-8443).  I do however think you should update your card for more security and here are a few tips.

Open a web browser and go to http://192.168.0.1

Change The Default Password

Just by chance someone gets a hold of your password for your mifi card.   They then can log into and change anything they want.   So you should change the “admin” Password and possibly change the Wi-Fi Password as well.  You can do this by going to the Admin Setup Page on the Mifi Device.

Change the SSID

By default the SSID for the Overdrive card is OverDrive Pro.   You can leave it as it is but the problem with it is someone else might have the same exact SSID and you may accidentally give out your wifi password to a stranger.   It should be unique and unguessable to people.   This Also can be done in the Admin Setup Page.

Change your DNS

By default you are going to use Virgin Mobile/Sprint DNS servers.  They may not be as fast as other servers and thus you can get a little more speed from changing the DNS to something other than Virgin Mobile/Sprint DNS.   You do this by going into the Advanced Settings, Clicking the Router Tab and going into the LAN tab, Which is a separate tab from the top.  You would then need to change DNS MODE to manual and enter two different IPS.  See below for two suggestions.

Here are two that you can try and see which one works better for you.

Google DNS:  8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Don’t Display Wifi Password

This is another by default, it will display the password on the Mifi screen for any passer by to gain access to the network.   If you have limited amount Gigabytes to use, you may not want to share that with a stranger.   So by turning off the password no-one will have access to the mifi device without asking you first.  That can also be changed and updated on the Admin Setup Page.

Change your Wifi Password

Finally the last step I would recommend is to change your Wifi Password so no other Overdrive Pro can have that same password.   Again, it is possibility someone else might have that password so it is best not to keep it.   Create a new password you can remember but nothing that everyone used.   Just saying.   You can do this also by going to the Admin Setup Page.

With these simple steps your OverDrive Pro Mifi Card is much more secure and less likely for someone to gain access unintentionally.  So you can sit back and relax and have fun with your card and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making this blog post.

Paul Sylvester

The Virgin Mobile Mifi 2200 is Really Usefull!

For Mobile Data, This is good!

I bought the Virgin Mifi Card in late December, has come into being used again this fall.  I figure it was high time to talk about this little card a little more.  I have been starting to use this again with me working those long hard hours and needing internet on the road and not wanting to hear Straight Talk complaining about me Tethering my HTC inspire or even using their Unlimited Data Plan.  So I thought it was high time to re-activate my Mifi Card and use that.  I say even for paying $50 a month for the service, it has been tremendously helpful with it being always on type internet.  Some of the things you will notice about this compared to tethering you HTC inspire are:

• Better responses annd better speeds -- I haven't done any Speed testing onn the connections because I went to T-mobile on my phone.  I have notices a better loading of pages with the Mifi Card. 
• No complaining -- Virgin Mobile has been running Pandora almost every day and I haven't heard any complaints from them yet!
• Price -- The price of the Mifi card is cheaper than buying a phone.  You can always use this with other devices such as the Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7 up to 5 devices!

As you can tell, I have been nothing but pleased with this Mifi card.  Something that I don't always like about Straight is the lies and deceit they claim to have unlimited but yet they are constantly complaining.  

Paul Sylvester

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