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Review by scottfsmith 
UPDATED: 186 days ago
member for 359 days, 11 visits, last login: 186 days ago
 Baltimore,Baltimore City,MD
 $35 per month
 "Good quality modem"
 "Coverage needs to improve"
 "Soon this will probably be a great option; coverage has a ways to go however"
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I am on the edge of coverage with the home modem. I get about 1600 down/300 up speeds on average, with the modem in a nice window location. Unfortunately it also drops the connection fairly often. I would say the main thing is your signal quality is very important. I get a constant 1-brick signal but never two bricks. With two bricks I think this thing would rock. I still have three weeks left to evaluate and I may just hang on to it until the coverage improves.
The configuration etc of the modem is easy. I wish they had not hid all the advanced options (remove the 1 in the URL from 192.168.1.100/rpSys1.html after logging in and you will get the advanced options, which support turning off the default NAT, configuring SIP for VoIP, etc). I don't have a 100% working phone to test the VoIP completely with but it did receive calls fine so it likely works already; just plug your phone into the back of the modem and enter your SIP account into the modem config.
They still need to improve on the documentation, for example there is no documentation at all of how to configure your network without NAT etc. This modem is quite a bit better than my cable modem in terms of what it can do by itself, but the docs are not there yet. The website has very little information now. They also need to start selling antennas. I did find one site selling some already -- »www.rfwel.com/shop/home.php?cat=179 .
The customer service people are clearly not Sprint people, they were actually competent. I am in shock.
Their website has some bugs still, I kept getting this "unauthorized" page when trying to buy the modem.
Oh the cost is $25 per month for the first 6 mos then $35.
UPDATE: The modem quality started to deteriorate as the leaves on the trees came out in full force, to the point of not really being usable. So I decided to get the ARC 16bD antenna from WPS Antennas. I have not yet found the optimal spot for it but I am at least back to a brick or two from no bricks. So the antenna was well worth the money. You need to order the antenna plus the special coax cable and it will cost about $150 total.
Scott
PS Speed test added - note nice download but bad upload times.
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