Reviews:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·Bright House
| Upgraded? Mifi2200 to 4510L Today I took the plunge, and upgraded from the Mifi2200 to the Mifi 4510L. Reviews have been all over the place, and hopefully I won't regret it! It is used for business and casual. I keep it in my work van, use it for testing remotely, etc.
For the first hour it wouldn't connect 4G. I did a reset (remove battery, sim card, etc.) and it came back online 4G. Speed tests have me scratching my head.
Latency: Fairly stable around 400ms.
Upload: Fantastic! Faster than my home connection! ~12.5M.
Download: Sickening... Avg 1M, and one or two tests 5M.
For tests I've been using speedtest.net, over my ATT iPhone 4S. After I post this I'll connect with my desktop, and see if anything changes. |
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Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
·Bright House
| Additional information:
I'm located in Port Orange, FL.
I've tested to Cocoa, FL and Atlanta, GA; and neither appears to be faster or slower than the other.
Battery is fully charged.
The mifi shows 5 bars all around my home.
In additional testing pings are below 100ms, but download remains ~1M and upload ~5M. |
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Zach 58Premium
join:2006-11-26
NW Minnesota | I've got the same device although there is no LTE in the area, it works nicely on 3G. Generally get 1.0-1.6M down and 0.6-0.7M up with pings in the 100-130ms range. It's used as our primary home Internet service. This device replaced a ZTE hotspot (absolute piece of crapola) that went flaky in just over a year of light to moderate use. So far, I'm happy. |
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 smunro622Premium
join:2006-02-15
Madison Heights, MI | reply to weaseled386
weaseled,
are you having better luck? i need to get one for work and was looking at thie 4510 and the SCH-LC11. I am in a 4g coverage area but may not be if i travel. |
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| reply to weaseled386
I have one of these, and when it works it's great, but it is flaky. That said LTE speeds are all over the place, but usually impressive. Depends on the cell site. |
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Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
·Bright House
| reply to weaseled386
I traded the original device in for another one. However, the main problem appears to be my iPhone 4S  I need to do more testing before I make an bold claims, but when I set my unused iPhone 4 next to my ATT iPhone 4S; the 4 gets perfect speeds. Latency is around 100ms, and speeds are in the 5-15M range for upload and download. I'll then run the test on my 4S and I see 100-400ms, 1M down and 5-15M up.
Based on that you could almost assume that something in the 4S' wifi circuitery is messed up. To rule that out I connect to my home wifi, and speeds are perfect... (~100ms, 24M down & 3.5M up)
I split 50/50 custody of my 5yo daughter, and she goes to her mother's tomorrow. I plan to remove the SIM from my 4S, and power cycle it. I want to see if speeds change after a restart, and if it being an unactivated dumb phone makes any difference... If so I'll know ATT or VZ is up to no good for people in my situation. |
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Reviews:
·AT&T U-Verse
·Bright House
1 edit | reply to weaseled386
After completing a total of 17 speedtests (13 connected wifi to my 4510L and 4 connected to my residential wifi) I have no clue what to think. As far as I know wifi = wifi... So there should be no difference, internally to the iPhone 4 & 4S, if I'm connected to my 4510L or my residential access point. If that method of thinking is correct the tests below rule out internal issues with my iPhone 4S.
My next guess would be some sort of conflict (on either ATT's side or VZ's side) that is lowering my QoS. That should have been disproven by removing the SIM card and rebooting the device...
iPhone 4: Previously used with ATT, and doesn't have a SIM card. It remained in this state for all 17 tests (13 over 4G and 4 over my residential ISP).
-- Fastest 4G DL 16.31M, and slowest 6.34M.
-- Fastest 4G UL 11.96M, and slowest 4.55M.
-- Residential wifi avg: 50ms, 15M down and 2.92M up.
iPhone 4S +SIM card: Currently being used with ATT. Six tests were conducted over VZ 4G, and four over my residential ISP.
-- Test 1 results: 200ms, 5.61M down, 11.37M up. Results below will not reflect test 1.
-- Fastest 4G DL 1.4M, and slowest 0.90M.
-- Fastest 4G UL 12.65M, and slowest 2.5M.
-- Residential wifi avg: 45ms, 18M down and 2.80 up.
iPhone 4S -SIM card: I conducted 7 speedtests connected to 4G.
-- Fastest 4G DL 1.09M, and slowest 0.88M.
-- Fastest 4G UL 12.65M, and slowest 4.66M.
-- I did not test my residential wifi without the SIM card.
EDIT: Both phones support 802.11 B, G and N at 2.4GHz, and both phones are running iOS 5.0.1. |
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cysko
join:2004-11-16
East Moriches, NY | reply to weaseled386
I just got one of these from my employer. I had a choice between the USB dongle or the MiFI 4510L which is what I chose. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. On Eastern Long Island this thing is almost unusable. No I don't get 4G here, but it's so slow it's like watching Facebook load one image at a time. If I plug my Ancient Sprint Aircard II (PCMCIA) into the same laptop, it cruises nicely. I've already pulled the SIM and battery, reset etc.
Any ideas? |
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Reviews:
 ·HughesNet Satell..
 ·Verizon Wireless..
| I used a USB760 for a long time, and then I thought a Mifi 4510L would be a nice upgrade. I had recently configured one at a residence, and theirs worked wonderfully. It connected a desktop and a netbook via WiFi with no problems. It still functions marvelously to this day.
This convinced me to upgrade...
Opened my box, charged the batter, and then turned it on... OMG THE SKY FELL, and the EARTH TREMBLED...
This thing was dropping the cell signal like a hooker on crack gives b... :P
Anyway, after hours of monitoring this "condition", I updated the firmware. That did not help at all. It still dropped the signal every ten seconds.
My point, its like shooting in the dark with this hardware... Four may not work and the next one does... I ended up with a UML290. |
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