T-mobile hotspot - secure connection with Mac OSX

I do a fair amount of development while seated in a Starbucks. I don't often drink the coffee or eat the food, but I do connect to the Internet using their fine HotSpot service. Up until last week, my Hotspot connection was a regular old unsecured Airport connection. That means that much of my traffic was sniffable by others in the vicinity. I didn't like that much, so I did a little digging. T-mobile offers Connection Manager software for Windows users which solves this need. Since I have OSX, this was of little use.

There was one sentence in the T-mobile security policy that suggested that a secure connection was possible without Connection Manager. So I called tech support and they were astonishingly helpful. The tech walked me through an Internet Connect setup which resulted in me connecting securely via TTLS. The process is a bit complex, so you might want to call them if you are unusre about the screenshot below.

Open Internet Connect and add a new 802.1x configuration as below.I I also had to do click the Configure button for TTLS and enter PAP as the 'TTLS INNER Authentication'. The other authentication methods are left as default.