If you are part of the Ushahidi team, I'd like to thank you and the rest of your team. It was an important part of my life for a short period of time during a difficult disaster recovery event. A product like the BRCK, with the power of Ushahidi, can genuinely make lives better during disaster deployment. I could have used quite a few of those devices myself.
Re:Meet the BRCK
by allsystemsgo on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:32PM
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I was thinking about getting the Karma actually. The 14 dollars for 1GB is cheaper than tethering.
If you buy in batch, it ends up costing $10/GB. I'm connected via a karma device right now; as soon as Comcast asked me for my social security number to sign up in my apartment, I said f that and bought the karma. If I have to download large files, I generally download them to an amazon instance and sync locally when I have an unmetered connection.
The BRCK was designed for a different use case. It's designed to allow more connections and to have failovers for poor power and internet connectivity. It also allows you to extend it with both hardware and software of your own making.