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I like the service, I am in a urban area(Hartford CT), but it is next to impossible to get DSL installed at work, so this meets my needs for work and or commuting access. I love the no cap on the unlimited, I was on sprint and ended up with $200 to $300 a month in overages. Speeds are not great but not totally bad either. gps is a hit or miss for tracking movement. member for 17.8 years, 1578 visits, last login: 11.4 years ago updated 14.3 years ago
If you have dial-up or hughes, GET THIS NOW YOU WILL THANK ME A MILLION TIMES IF YOU DO I PROMISE YOU!!!!! except if your a gb whore....then you may despise me...aha but if you like speed or gaming get this, i really mean it. it relieves all the anger you've accumulated with hughesnet. member for 14.6 years, 124 visits, last login: 13.7 years ago lodged 14.3 years ago
After trying out Sprint to see if I had enough signal, which I did, I switched to Millenicom.. Millenicom's offer was almost $20 month less, with no contract, and they also used a better device, the Franklin CDU 680 USB modem. MC is a sprint reseller so they operate over sprint's infrastructure. If sprint works, they'll work. They sent the package (modem and router) via Post Office Priority mail and it arrived in 4 days, and everything was up and running that afternoon, and within one or two afternoons of reconfiguring computers and devices on my existing equipment, all wireless systems were operational and everything was working nicely on my 3 station network. My setup has had so many different types of IP connections that getting rid of the old tweaking was half the job. Even before I owned their product, I had several good conversations with their tech support people and I was impressed by their desire to make it happen for you, with no BS. So the choice was clear. Millenicom also offers a good deal on a compatible router, the Assent Wireless MBR-400, and they charge $50 less for it than if you bought it retail. So when you add it all up, it's a very good package for the money, it works smoothly and it's far superior to satellite in every aspect. Three cheers for Millenicom, and let's hope they grow and don't lose their personal touch. UPDATE 8/1/08: MCom has raised their fee to 59.99/mo, but it is still uncapped and still works nicely, and still no contract required. They've also opened up their service to users who have their own devices. UPDATE 3/09/09 I recently changed my equipment from the CDU680/Assent MBR400 combination originally sold to me by MCom, to a Sierra 598U I purchased on EBay for $99, and a Cradlepoint CTR500A router. The difference is huge, especially in staying connected. The new rig stays on for days at a time, and when it does disconnect, it reconnects automatically, often within seconds. I've never caught it "dead in the water," unlike the CDU/MBR setup, which would 'crash,' for lack of a better term, when I plugged in my grid antenna. The grid works perfectly with the new setup, yielding about 16db gain of its rated 18db. The Sierra also seems to discriminate better between competing antennas, locking in to just one active pilot at a time, again, unlike the CDU, which jumped around all over the place, showing as many as 4 active pilots at one time. Speeds are at least as good, perhaps 25% better, but overall useability is way up. MCom's headquarters tech support was terrific in making this switchover. Without mentioning names, as is requested by the forum rules, I emailed to one of their support personnel and received a telephone call from that person, and we took it from there, easily. I don't know if they'll do it for new accounts, but I already had an account for a year. Well worth the expense of the Sierra and the Cradlepoint, which I might point out, is a better router and has a more complete interface than the Assent. UPDATE 10/09. It's closing in on two years that I've been using Millenicom and I have to say I'm pretty satisfied, especially since changing my hardware rig as described above. I did move up to the new "really unlimited" account for another $10 a month. It's worth it to me to not have to worry about ridiculous overage charges or getting cut off. And since internet is my main source for watching Yankee games, it would be easy to burn up 5Gb in a month...one game takes about 600Mb or more. There's NOTHING else to choose from up here in the mountains where we live. Forget about DSL or cable, and you can read my comments about Hughes above and on a separate review of HN. Were it not for MBB, it would be death by dial-up. In fact, I used to keep a dialup account for those times when my HN satellite went down and for remotely accessing client computers, since HN worked like crap for RA. That's been canceled as unnecessary, saving me another $20/month. Dealing with Millenicom has been fairly easy. I can email one of their senior techs and he responds quickly enough. He made the switchover from the CDU to the Sierra painless. So overall I'd have to give MCom a B+, maybe even an A for me individually since I really have so few other choices. member for 21 years, 1416 visits, last login: 211 days ago updated 14.4 years ago
Sprint threatened me so I moved, boy am I glad i did! member for 16.3 years, 217 visits, last login: 198 days ago lodged 14.4 years ago
i ordered the "unlimited" mobile broadband service for $60/month on July 2nd 2009 and found out by the time i got it that it was no longer "unlimited"....had i been following DSL Reports' Millenicom forum i would have seen this was in the works for a few months already...i had their service last year and im guessing i got away with 15-20 GB for some months as it was my only way to access the internet....to me its still a good company as they apparently buy the bandwidth from Verizon and Sprint and those companies demanded the 5 GB cap, so there was not really much Millenicom could do....the main benefit i see now is that Millenicom is a month to month service so you dont hae to sign 2-yr contract...... member for 16.2 years, 218 visits, last login: 13.5 years ago lodged 14.6 years ago
Service provider is Millenicom which uses Verizon/Sprint towers and services for internet access. Device used Pantech UM175. Millenicom is a service provider I would recommend. Only down fall is I see is the reconnection issue, some times service will drop. The connection will drop and reconnect. Which gets annoying at times. How to fix, use a antenna booster and Amplifier. At first my connection was 22% with out anything. With the antenna booster 74% and with amplifier 100% connection. I bought all product sold at the Millenicom website. Now I get great connection with less drops. Drop before where every 5 min to every half hour. now drops happen less, about every 2 to 7 hours. Speed at - download 700kb to 1.5mb - upload 90kb to 300kb member for 14.9 years, 424 visits, last login: 12.3 years ago updated 14.8 years ago
I've had Millenicom for over a year now. Overall, my experience with them has been satisfactory, and I still do recommend them over other EVDO providers, and definitely over Satellite. However, in recent months they have been steadily failing at customer support and transparency of their policies in regards to downloading limitations. Customers (those with Verizon upstream provider anyways) have been lately receiving emails telling them to curtail their usage if they go over 10GB download in a month. At the same time they claim to be unlimited. This is a direct contradiction and they cannot legally do this, but they're trying to anyways. Also, they do not have their own tech support. Being a 3rd party provider for Mobile Broadband, they have to hire a call center to handle tech support issues, which I've recently had problems with. My experience has been bad, but others have had no issues. We'll see what happens in the future. member for 17.1 years, 2567 visits, last login: 9.4 years ago lodged 14.8 years ago
Overall, I am really happy with this service. Their tech support people have been so polite and they respond quickly. Since their tech support and customer service are in the United States, there is no language barrier to have to deal with. That is nice. I've just dealt with Dell for my family member, and it was very hard for my family member and myself to understand the accents. This does not happen with this company. Last night when I called their toll-free number for help, the man who answered said that they would call me back the next day. Within an hour, I had a phone call from their contracted company tech support who then transferred me to Sprint. That was a pleasant surprise, and not expected. The problem is still not permanently resolved as my speed went south on April 22, then got better, then slowed way down again. For a few days, I had decent speed in the 800's and sometimes 500's, but as I try to watch a video, it keeps stopping to buffer. Very frustrating and not dependable, but still connected...just slow. During optimal times, my download speed was around 875 or so. Since my speed used to be only 28.8 on a GOOD day with dialup, and sometimes way below that, I am still content with 112 download speed which is currently what I have. Hopefully, I will get back to the consistent speed I have been happy with since last September. member for 15.7 years, 114 visits, last login: 4.7 years ago updated 14.8 years ago
I was with Verizon for exactly 2 days, it was just awful, and I returned the modem, but was charged for the whole month and really high taxes and surcharges! For the 39.00 a month deal with them, the total bill was 61.17!! And that was for only 2 days use! Then I discovered dslreports.com and found out about Millenicom! Fantastic! My internet speed is fast and I dont seem to lose my connection either. I had to do a few tweeks, like purchase a router, and once I did that, I found that the speed was actually faster! Go with Millenicom, you wont be sorry! member for 14.9 years, 614 visits, last login: 9 years ago lodged 14.9 years ago
I looked for months at the providers, I needed my service for travel, not necessarily for home use. Found "M" while reading about "V" service was almost too good to be true. I watched for months while determining that Verizon truly had the coverage I needed. So I went with Millenicom. Why? No add on charges each month, ability to cancel at anytime, Service support that knows their service, not a talking head as at the "v" store. Happy so far, yes. Mad, yes at myself, for not doing this earlier. UT175 Wireless USB modem supplied, with Y-cable and drivers CD Ordered on Thursday received on the following Monday before noon Here is a sppedtest from today April 10th. [URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]»www.speedtest.net/result ··· G][/URL] member for 21.7 years, 3144 visits, last login: 259 days ago updated 14.9 years ago |