Those who have 3G flashed hot spots for $5.00 a month

[Bucky_Badger]

How well do they work? Can you stream music fairly well, How about movies? Do you use it mainly for web surfing?

[Tom_M1]

This topic has been beaten to death in the past. There has been a lot of discussion about a vendor named Travis of Mobile xxxx (company name not mentioned because moderator will delete it). I purchased my first device from Travis and like many others it turned into a major headache. The hotspot worked fine for 6 weeks when the service quit. I received a full refund from PayPal after filing a dispute. Travis has dropped out of sight for a few months now. Here's a link to one of the threads:

https://forums.goodsamclub.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/29097126/srt/pa/pging/1/page/1

I purchased my second device from DR Wireless and it has worked great for six months.

Do a search on eBay for "unlimited 3g" to find sellers.

[wa8yxm]

2oldman wrote:
Hmm.. sounds illegal.

Actually NO.. "Flashed" means a couple of things, one is that the software has been updated to the latest edition.

JAILED: means that the device only works on one carrier.. Now that is illegal. FCC adopted new rules outlawing Jailing phones et-al last year.


Finally.. I'd like to know more abut where does one get one.

[1492]

Mine works flawlessly. Get about 2.4MBps 3G down in DC. Takes less than 1 minute a month to get $5. refill by Ebay Verizon reseller who applies it directly to the MiFi phone number. No wasted time.

BTW, I did not use the recommended Verizon refill dealer from the MiFi seller. Never got a response from purchased refill cards using PayPal, and required additional step of calling the pin in to Verizon. The aforementioned was a lot easier.

[Bucky_Badger]

Thx Roy

[RoyB]

my VERIZON NOVATEL MIFI 2200 2G/3G box does not do well at all for streaming... Only good for checking into the internet using VERIZON, chatting with the kids and paying a few bills,,,

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Slows down big time here at the house using VERIZON doing a movie even tho the signal is strong. Very slow throughput... I think this is suppose to be a 3G connections here where I live - My cellphone has the 3G symbol always on... maybe it is idling back to 2G mode for some reason...

People that uses the Verizon JETPACKS doesnt seem to have this problem...

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Never tried to downstream anything on the road with it. My dataplan is only a 3G monthly dataplan anyway... I hear one movie will eat up around 1GB of data...

I have never run out of data just doing what I mentioned above on our trips...

Roy Ken

[Dutch_12078]

Our flashed Jetpack worked fine in testing for video streaming at all but the highest resolutions. As with any cell service, tower congestion can make a difference though. Since we also have an AT&T 250GB 4G/LTE $60/mo plan with unlimited phone service and will soon put an AT&T unlimited 4G/LTE $20/mo plan in service, we only keep the unlimited Verizon 3G Jetpack active as a backup source.

[2oldman]

Hmm.. sounds illegal.