We bought the Virgin MiFi at Wal Mart 08/30. It was easy enough to set up but through put was terrible. Web pages had to be refreshed several times in order to get them to load. Web searches revealed many having the same problems all over the US. Sprint was routing Virgin traffic through a server in California and needless to say it was overwhelmed.
Two weeks later the Virgin service is much improved. Additional servers have been added. Another web forum contributor stated that Virgin had acknowledged their problem and were ramping up capacity.
For the last three days service has been excellent with 1.00 to 1.47 mb/s download speeds. It compares well with our existing Verizon USB 727 / Cradlepoint 350 service. It is at least twice as fast as our fixed wireless service here in rural Oklahoma.
If the Virgin service continues to be stable we will drop our fixed wireless and continue to use Verizon and Virgin services feeding our wifi network on as needed basis both at home and as we travel.
D Daniel
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--- In InternetByWiFi@yahoogroups.com, Schmidt <schmidt29@...> wrote:
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> yes ...... and apparently the Spint towers (which VirginMobile uses) are HIGHLY
> overworked.
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> can you imagine paying $150 for the device and then paying $40 for service ....
> and getting download speeds that are lower than dial-up ????
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