[GRLUG] MIFI Choices

[Matthew Seeley]

It should be noted that while Virgin uses Sprints tower, and Sprint does own
Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile devices do **not** use Sprint's data or
voice services.

Virgin's devices nearly always underperform by a wide margin, when compared
to Sprint's devices.

(You can verify this yourself, if you run a speed test on a Virgin Mobile
and Sprint device next to each other. Because they use different backend
networks, even though they technically use the same towers, the performance
will be totally different.

In my experience, a Sprint device has always clocked in between 2 to 12
times faster data speeds than a Virgin Mobile device, regardless of location
and/or signal strength.

(There's a reason Virgin's unlimited data plan is $25/month, and Sprint's is
$80+/month.)

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Matthew Seeley
Threadlight Systems
PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429
T: (616) 328-5649


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Rob Steenwyk <rsteenwyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Never used it, but I have heard June 16 as the 4g rollout date for Verizon.
> On May 25, 2011 3:39 PM, "Casey DuBois" <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > David was kind enough to let me test his Virgin MIFI (Sprint) and I
> > was not too happy with the performance so I'm still looking.
> > The new MIFI that has my attention today is the Verizon 4G:
> >
> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5633&deviceCategoryId=13
> >
> > Cost looks to be 99 for the device and 50 monthly for 5GB.
> > Does anyone else have this one? Good? Bad?
> >
> > From the looks of the map I would only get 3G speeds for now but
> > thinking they will be rolling out the 4G in GR soon.
> >
> >
> > Casey DuBois
> > 616-808-6942
> > casey at grlug.org
> >
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