MIFI devices

[Mal]

Any current recommendations on what people like? (unlocked devices for International use)

 

[Mal]

Bump... I know most people use a mifi of some description when travelling in oz. Does everyone just use the generic telstra 4g ones / optus etc?

 

[wallacej]

Bump... I know most people use a mifi of some description when travelling in oz. Does everyone just use the generic telstra 4g ones / optus etc?

I use the hotspot function of my Galaxy S3. I think most phones have that function. I was able to use it in the states with an at&t card. My friend had an iphone 5 and was unable to use the function. The rep at the store was surprised my phone allowed the hot spot function, this is not supposed to happen in the US.

 

[DeKa]

The best is the Vodafone Pocket Wifi 2, Pro or Extreme .. they are the only cheap devices that support 3G 850Mhz (AU, US) 3G 900Mhz (Europe) and 3G 2100Mhz (AU, Europe, Asia).
They can be picked up for less than $80 and unlocked for ... not much.

They are actually a Huawei device - the Pocket Wifi 2 is the e585-u82 (the u82 in the model designator is important - the plain e585 is 900/2100Mhz only).
The Pocket Wifi Pro is R205

The Pocket Wifi Extreme is[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] R208[/FONT]​

 

[Pushka]

In Europe I used TEP. It was excellent and always a good signal throughout France, Spain and Italy.

 

[DeKa]

In Europe I used TEP. It was excellent and always a good signal throughout France, Spain and Italy.

But expensive. You're better off getting one of the devices I mentioned, and a local SIM particularly if you do it more than once a year.

 

[markis10]

I am not bothering with dedicated devices anymore, a Samsung Galaxy S Duos is not much dearer and handles a local sim for data/calls while also having my home sim active to get SMS's while the hotspot serves up data for the iPAD.

 

[Pushka]

But expensive. You're better off getting one of the devices I mentioned, and a local SIM particularly if you do it more than once a year.

it cost £79 for four weeks. We didn't get near our download limit yet I was posting pictures to photo bucket, emails and internet use. I can't be bothered dealing with local sim cards etc and wasn't even sure if they'd work throughout Europe anyway so the price worked for me.

 

[Mal]

Will investigate moving to a phone based hotspot. Makes sense.

However, can't use my normal sim (unlimited data) as tethering isn't allowed and not sure if my data sim allows use in a phone (and yes a carrier can check both of these and block if they want).

I've used huwaei before. Decent products and yep unlocking is pretty easy normally.

More research for me to do...

 

[john_l]

I just use tethering on my HTC. Worked on pretty much all the networks.