Cradlepoint PHS-300 Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot Router + Accessory Kit

3 Review to this product

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  Sm Edwards
  December 2nd, 2010 on 9:44 am

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  A good all round device with some good features like WPA2, the user interface is a little clunky so you do need some understanding of what all the settings mean, I wouldn’t expect my Mom to be able to set one up securely. I found changing your USB 3G device settings to auto is a help when establishing a connection. Over all this device will make using devices like the iPad wifi only model a good option for travel. 4 out of 5.
  
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  Francis M Wimbish
  December 5th, 2010 on 6:47 pm

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  I bought this so that I did not have to sign up for a new contract for my new iPad. I bought the iPad with just WiFi and not the 3G. I then hooked this up to my USB AirCard from AT&T and it works awsome! Now when I am in the airport without wifi, I just turn on the box and both my computer and iPad pick it up. Well worth it if you are contimplating signing another contract (minimum 2 years) on another device with internal wifi card.
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  Computer Man
  December 8th, 2010 on 4:14 am

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  When I researched wireless routers I had a choice between this product and the native product from Verizon. I chose this product for a number of reasons: I could keep my old wireless modem, I could buy a second battery which I did, and it allowed up to 16 connections instead of the five. So far I haven’t been disappointed with the product, the setup was very easy on my macbook and the range is very good. I use an Airport express associated with my home routers for streaming iTunes and printer data, I set this router up the same way. I didn’t try printing yet but I think it will work without a problem, however so far I am not able to stream iTunes through it. It plays for a couple of seconds and then stops, I think the buffers are being overrun. There are some parameters but I haven’t made the time to see if they can be adjusted enough to get the streaming to work – it just may be too much for such a small router. We have two macbrook pros, two airport express routers and an iPod Touch and all work great. I haven’t spent much time on the road with the router yet but I don’t expect it to perform any better than the native router does on Verizon’s network. I am going to be very interested to see if and how fast the router resets when the connection drops.
  
  By the way the router easily fits into a pocket but with the modem attached it becomes awkward so you need some place to carry it.