Straight talk zte z288l hotspot experience

1985air345 wrote:
... TWO THUMBS DOWN on the Straight Talk ZTE 289L. Back to the drawing board for a hotspot.

I agree.

I posted earlier in the thread about buying 2 of them but failed to come back with my results. They didn't work most of the time even though the box indicated LTE signal. A widget on a website I own showed "Your ISP is Syniverse Technologies, LLC". I did a bunch or traceroutes and no matter what server I was trying to reach everything was going through a proxy in Tampa Florida. I am in Rhode Island!!! The proxy is owned by Syniverse Technologies. I could get to Google and even do a search on Google with the page loading rapidly. Most of the Google links I clicked on would not even load the page. :M

The whole problem is the Syniverse Technologies proxy. It is very selective as to what it lets through. Interesting thing is, on one of the many resets the box stayed in 3G mode and worked quite well .... until it switched back to LTE. The Straight Talk 289L it not yet ready for the consumer market.

Both of mine were returned to Wally World for a refund.