Femtocells Are A No Show > Servers

said by SLD:

Are these classified as servers from an ISPs TOS? Don't other cell users get to make calls on your broadband connection?

said by bn1221:

That depends on the carrier. AT&T has advertised that the user has to specifically program the mobile numbers of those allowed to use their Femto.

All others will see the Femto and may try to connect to it, but since their number won't be programmed they won't be able to connect.

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ATT fibbed. They allow up to 3 connections. Your numbers will have priority but you won't be able to lock it out from everyone else

ATT Business sales rep told me this when I told him I want 50 of them for my offices. That and the GPS location annoyance (the places I cannot get cell coverage GPS doesn't work either [warehouse])

said by bn1221:

...And to the ATT person that said you can program 10 numbers - thats true. Read the fine print. There is NO way to lock people roaming to your Femto. I don't like people in the parking lot of the kiddie school using my Femto so I sent it back.

said by bn1221:

Once again, you did not read my information.

I did in fact use these Femto's six weeks ago. Your Femto's GUI will let you set 10 numbers only. You may even think that prevents people from connecting. You'd be wrong. Call your ATT rep. Mine swears up and down the FCC forced all the vendors into allowing people to roam on your Femto.

I've seen unauthorized numbers on my Femto. Instead of acting childish and claiming I'm clueless you should have real proof that what you claim is correct. I already know what I have seen.

said by bn1221:

I had five of them. And I locked them to only three of my ATT numbers.

Five kids skating in the road out front got coverage on them. If you know Marathon at all you know the ATT coverage is Edge, and crappy edge at that. I yanked all the Femtos and the kids all starting asking each other if they lost signal.

First my sales dink told me I could only have 3 users per Femto (which was wrong as i saw 4 users each on the 2 on that end of building). Then they told me the Femto would give 3G (if they did, the ones we were provided only offered Edge).

We sent them back. The annoying thing is the Iphones and other 3G phones will send voice traffic over 3G if they can. So, the Femto gave us slightly better Edge coverage, no better data coverage, and let the kids in the parking lot use my Frontier DSL line.

I have little use for ATT and I have little use for Iphones. Even if the Femto worked as advertised and was 3G and locked non employees out the coverage indoors with them is spotty and range is very short.

Now, you may have better results. Given my experience that is not saying a whole lot. I shipped my Femtos back.