Comments on: Installing Sprint’s Sierra Wireless Compass 597 Aircard on OS X Leopard

By: brad

brad — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:29:16 +0000

Thanks, this is PERFECT! Extremely helpful, as I post this over the EVDO connection

By: cAMERON

cAMERON — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:18:51 +0000

i have a sprint ierra compass 597 and i have two desktops with a d link can i send it through my computer to the dlink and then to my brothers computer

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:10:40 +0000

Thank you! You saved me a lot of time and frustration!

By: Tom Bridge

Tom Bridge — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:04:57 +0000

Oh this one’s a godsend. I can finally get back online once I bought my new machine. Thanks a ton.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:24:51 +0000

Aaron. You’re the man. This post saved my life. Lol.

By: joel

joel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:45:36 +0000

Thanks for the reference on how to get it running on the mac. The weird part is that it worked fine on my macbook running leopard but then I bought a new macbook last month and i had to configure it the way you described below. Why do you think that is?

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:46:28 +0000

Thank you. Following these instructions, I have been able to do in 2 minutes what Sprint couldn’t do in 2 hours. Worked great.

By: .abelafonte

.abelafonte — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:23:59 +0000

Yes, I agree that it’s bloatware. Of course, I tried uninstalling it since I had manually configured it. But then I couldn’t connect.

Even if it DID work properly out of the box, I don’t see why it’s necessary to have a software installed in order to use the device since I can do it in my system as an alternative.

And, Wow! that Cradlepoint looks really awesome!

By: EVDOinfo

EVDOinfo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:49:35 +0000

many mac users consider the carrier provided app to be bloatware, and see better performance while operating their EVDO device while attached to a cellular router like the cradlepoint phs300: http://www.EVDOinfo.com/PHS300

as a side benefit, the “portable hotspot” allows more than one device to take advantage of the EVDO. now iPod Touch, and multiple Macs can get online with just the single compass 597

… and Sprint EVDO is most often faster than even iPhone 3G speeds!