{"id":1084,"date":"2009-11-16T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:19:26","slug":"wireless-product-review-novatel-revisited-sierra-wireless-598u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wireless-product-review-novatel-revisited-sierra-wireless-598u\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Product Review: Novatel Revisited + Sierra Wireless 598U"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I wrote a review on the Novatel Wireless MiFi, the cool new mobile hotspot. I gave it a generally glowing review, but reserved the right to later judgment based on further testing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I am calling upon the right of later judgment. Upon further review, this device did not deliver the goods. As I reported before, all the features seemed <\/em>to work quite well; I had been able to get it up and running with no issues at all. After running steady for a few hours, however, the problems started to appear. <\/span><\/p>\n

Seemingly at random and for no apparent reason, the MiFi would disconnect and reconnect to the service. This presented somewhat of a problem when I was trying to move a file with no resume capabilities. If the connection bounced at any time during the transfer, I had to start completely over. This is unacceptable as a main connection to the Internet. <\/span><\/p>\n

After much research and not a few calls to technical support, I came to the conclusion that there is a flaw in either the hardware or the firmware running it. Apparently, this is a regular occurrence, and not yet solved. This forced me to revisit the Sprint store and my solution for connecting to the Internet. <\/span><\/p>\n

After some paperwork, I settled on the Sierra Wireless 598U as a replacement solution. This nice little piece of hardware is a USB 3G wireless modem. About 3 inches long and an inch wide, it also contains a micro-SD card reader. <\/span><\/p>\n

This USB modem is compatible with both windows and OSX, but requires proprietary software to be installed. The good thing is that you don’t have to keep track of a CD: the drivers and software are built into the firmware of the device and are installed the first time it is plugged in. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 598U absolutely blows the MiFi away as far as connection strength and stability, and I am getting better speeds than I ever have on Sprint’s network. Even when my signal is showing at forty percent, I am getting better speeds than the MiFi would with 100% signal strength. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was easily able to install the USB modem on my Macbook Pro and share the connection wirelessly with the other computers in my house. After a few weeks of testing and moving several Gigabytes of information, I am happy to report that the 598U is handling my needs quit nicely. <\/span><\/p>\n

Although it would have been nice if the Novatel MiFi had delivered, I can say that the new solution is working quit well, and Sprint has done a reasonable job of customer service in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for coming back to read the latest. Make sure to check back often for more on SharePoint<\/a>, new devices, and other cool topics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month I wrote a review on the Novatel Wireless MiFi, the cool new mobile hotspot. I gave it a generally glowing review, but reserved the right to later judgment based on further testing. Well, I am calling upon the right of later judgment. Upon further review, this device did not deliver the goods. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[259,303,302],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wireless-service","tag-mifi","tag-novatel-wireless-mifi","tag-sierra-wireless-598u"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}