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Out of curiosity, who here has an airave? My mother got hers yesterday for free for being a loyal customer for 11 years and also because of her horrible coverage in her home. I actually called customer service to see if she was eligible and she was. She used to get 1 to 2 signal bars on her epic 4g touch and now she gets full bars. Her 3g speeds went up 1.5 mbps from .3mbps. She's pretty happy with her airave . I also find out that they are planning to build a sprint tower about 20 minutes away off the highway from where she lives. No reason to leave sprint anyone time soon . Hell if the Tmobile and AT&T merger happens and I hope it doesn't, I'm heading to Sprint.
I don't know about Sprints version but we've used an At&t microcell for over a year with little to no issues. Had to pay $150 for the damn thing but it's been great. They should work similarly.
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Have had ours for some time now. Had a couple issues with it, but was always resolved within a timely manner. Without out ours here in the home, we'd see 1 bar if that. Got ours free from the problems that we've had signal wise.
Got an airave v2 from sprint for free since my basement drops calls, works great throughout the entire house, sometimes it doesn't switch properly to the sprint tower when I get out of range outside and drops though, but that's a rarity
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I have a new version Airave in my home (got it for free from Sprint cuz of poor signal quality indoors), and it works very well.
That's great that some have it especially for free. One question, does anyone have the GPS blinking green. When I first set it up it stopped blinking green and noticed now that it's blinking. I don't have the airave near a window nor elevated because of how her computer is set up and located. Should I bother connecting the external GPS or just not worry about it. My mother won't use her GPS whatsoever. Thanks.
Gps has to get a signal before airave will recieve data. As well as in highest level of support every call was airave. They work for a while and stop. We had an airave dept, but the calls were in the 100's every hr. We had to take all the overflow airave calls. Hate those things!
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I used mine without the extra gps ant. For a few months with mixed results. After a while I noticed the gps light flashed often, so I hooked up the external Gps reciever. Night and day diffrence. The airave never skips a beat, and signal is 100 fold better.
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I can't get my airave to work. I have it after the router and the GPS and Mobile lights are still blinking.
love my airvana
if your having issues put it before the router
Airave here. I like it and it works. Was free via sprint rep
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I want it after the router. I dont want to use the Airave's routing capabilities since I already have it set up on my linksys router.
I've read that you that you can just plug it in and it should work. I have tried changing the IP, etc. So far nothing.
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I can't get my airave to work. I have it after the router and the GPS and Mobile lights are still blinking.
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It needs to be close to a window or attach the GPS antenna to a window. Also first time plug in could take hours to go solid lights.
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I want it after the router. I dont want to use the Airave's routing capabilities since I already have it set up on my linksys router.
I've read that you that you can just plug it in and it should work. I have tried changing the IP, etc. So far nothing.
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I want to have it after the router as well, and thats where mine is; however, in a situation like yours where your trying to fix a problem its time to troubleshoot. If you put it before the router and it works then you've identified where the problem lies...
I have 2 of them Since i have a large family on my account that live in 2 different cities they gave me a second one free.I love them while in house i get great download speed and calls are not a issue.
I got it more for the download speed then anything else plus helps with tether
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I have 2 of them Since i have a large family on my account that live in 2 different cities they gave me a second one free.I love them while in house i get great download speed and calls are not a issue.
I got it more for the download speed then anything else plus helps with tether
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Wait... Your tethering from your phone which gets its signal from the airave which gets its signal from your home Internet connection?
I see two middle men that can be cut out of this equation
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I too have crappy signal at home. For those who have gotten unit from Sprint free do you still have to pay the monthly airwave fee? Seems to be unfair since you are using your own internet service provider to hook the airwave to.
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I too have crappy signal at home. For those who have gotten unit from Sprint free do you still have to pay the monthly airwave fee? Seems to be unfair since you are using your own internet service provider to hook the airwave to.
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I pay nothing
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By the way to all of you who want it after a Router, I have mine setup after a Router. The steps are easy just gotta port-forward. Google it =)
I did google. I also have the ports forwarded. The mobile and GPS leds are still blinking. It might come down to my charter service is not that great for VOIP (I even have OOMA too). I suspect it's that.
Shoulon, what steps did you do for after router setup?
Thank you.
y is every1 on wifi everytime i see screen shots ppl have there phones on wifi...u have 4g! my 4g tends to be faster then wifi lol ...do ppl use it just to conserve battery or is there another reason behind it that i dont no about
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y is every1 on wifi everytime i see screen shots ppl have there phones on wifi...u have 4g! my 4g tends to be faster then wifi lol ...do ppl use it just to conserve battery or is there another reason behind it that i dont no about
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I use wifi on my laptop... because its connected to my phone... via wifi hotspot
But yeah, I never turn on wifi and I have 0 use for wifi calling.
I don't know about you, but my Wifi at home is on a 110mbit cable modem. Beat that with your "4G" HSPA+
Wifi also uses less battery, and anything you do on wifi doesn't chew up your monthly Gigabyte allowance.
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I don't know about you, but my Wifi at home is on a 110mbit cable modem. Beat that with your "4G" HSPA+
Wifi also uses less battery, and anything you do on wifi doesn't chew up your monthly Gigabyte allowance.
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i dont have a monthly gig i have unlm. so im good money...idk my wifi is mad slow but even so...im not home all that much ...idk i guess its a personal preff
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i dont have a monthly gig i have unlm. so im good money...idk my wifi is mad slow but even so...im not home all that much ...idk i guess its a personal preff
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hahaha! you really think your unlimited. your probably capped a 5 gb once you go over its throttle time
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I don't know about you, but my Wifi at home is on a 110mbit cable modem. Beat that with your "4G" HSPA+
Wifi also uses less battery, and anything you do on wifi doesn't chew up your monthly Gigabyte allowance.
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That is true, i use it like that but if im on the bed or something at home. So i dont use up my 5gb, i use it real quick. Plus if people are at home why not use a laptop
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wifi is free
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y is every1 on wifi everytime i see screen shots ppl have there phones on wifi...u have 4g! my 4g tends to be faster then wifi lol ...do ppl use it just to conserve battery or is there another reason behind it that i dont no about
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your wifi is slow not because of the fact that youre on wifi, but because your own ISP's provisioned line is slow - thus, you have a slow internet package with your provider, either that or your having intermitten speed issues with the line. and there is no "100%" unlimited data on 4g/hspa+, max is 5gbs then youre throttled to be on edge. but really, i have the 2gb on 4G package and i can barely use a gig on a monthly basis from usual web browsing. i guess i shall start streaming some movies on the phone..
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y is every1 on wifi everytime i see screen shots ppl have there phones on wifi...u have 4g! my 4g tends to be faster then wifi lol ...do ppl use it just to conserve battery or is there another reason behind it that i dont no about
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Most of the time I'm at college and wifi is free so why not use it? Besides here the max down is 3mbs and wifi is 10. At home we don't have a dedicated internet connection so I tether to all my devices there.
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My Wifi is faster than my data.
Wifi is faster than my data. I dont want to get throttled because of how much data i use. Data uses more vattery because its onstantly searching and switching from hspa+, gms ,etc.
Message relayed from the dark side.
My wifi is faster than 4g. Also, my block has terrible service (previously had Verizon, it was horrible, my neighbors have sprint, it sucks too), so I use wifi calling because my wifi signal strength acts as my signal, so I get all calls, texts & don't drop calls.
the white unicorn.
It's typically better to use WiFi whenever it's available at your leisure.
Because when i play modern combat 3 online it requires wifi
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- wifi uses less battery
- its free.. doesnt use up my monthly 5gb so i dont get throttled
- ground level apartment doesnt get good service ..sometimes no service.. so wifi + wifi calling is almost necessary
- wifi is faster than 4g (unless you have crappy internet like OP must have)
- Having my phone on the same wifi network as my Samsung TV ( with built in wireless ) allows me to use my phone as a remote control for the TV and also i can send pictures , music, videos , whatever from my phone wirelessly to my tv
When did wifi become free? Am I missing something here? If your at home and your using a wireless router to use the wifi off, then is it really free. I can understand being out and using it but at home your paying your ISP and tmobile. I agree data speeds at home are usually faster but I get 12 and sometimes 16mb at home on tmobile. Currently tethering on my plan and it beat my ESP in downloads. Keep in mind my old plan with Comcast was 12mb and my most recent was only 1-1.5mb.
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your wifi is slow not because of the fact that youre on wifi, but because your own ISP's provisioned line is slow - thus, you have a slow internet package with your provider, either that or your having intermitten speed issues with the line. and there is no "100%" unlimited data on 4g/hspa+, max is 5gbs then youre throttled to be on edge. but really, i have the 2gb on 4G package and i can barely use a gig on a monthly basis from usual web browsing. i guess i shall start streaming some movies on the phone..
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actually Tmobile has a10gb package for the extreme users..at the end of my Billing cycle Im usually at 4.5GB of use so I downgraded from the 10 GB package. I have average download speeds of 13mb and 4mb up with this phone way better then the 3 down and.50 up my sensation got in the same place.
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I use wifi when available. Doesn't count against my data plan and my home internet is much faster then my home 4g data connection.
Why would anyone use 4g when wifi and a fast internet connection is available?
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When did wifi become free? Am I missing something here? If your at home and your using a wireless router to use the wifi off, then is it really free. I can understand being out and using it but at home your paying your ISP and tmobile. I agree data speeds at home are usually faster but I get 12 and sometimes 16mb at home on tmobile. Currently tethering on my plan and it beat my ESP in downloads. Keep in mind my old plan with Comcast was 12mb and my most recent was only 1-1.5mb.
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Yes , it's free. I have a fast internet connection for my home network and it doesn't cost me any more to use wifi for my phone and tablet. I'm paying for the internet connection any way so why not take advantage?
i use wifi every chance i get! more stable and saves more energy.
Really OP? I get 20mb down at home and 15+ when at bdubs or starbucks or any similar place. It's 2012 man, who doesn't love free interwebs without eating at our data plans?
Ok just moved into a new apt that has poor 3g signal with 2 bars and was suggested by sprint to get the airwave with my high speed Internet.. Well I was wondering I'm like a mile maybe 2 away from 4g, will it boost me into 4g coverage or just give me good signal within the home??
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Doesn't help with 4g, but reception is way better.
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The Airave doesn't boost signal, it's a femtocell, which is essentially a mini cell tower. It's 3G only and doesn't broadcast a 4G signal of any kind.
What datajosh said... And with wifi your data travels over that very fast.My two cents: I am so glad I have an Airave. I live in a fairly wooded area and both 3g and 4g (which I can get in town by the way) don't work well at all - for any carrier. I've had sprint up here for about 5 years and was looking at Verizon and ATT but neither could even get the anemic reception on 3g/1g I was getting on Sprint. Got an Airave and my signal is freaking great! I can walk out of my place to my garage about 50yds and still be on my unit. My sister got one because she too was was having issues down in SoCal (and the family has FIVE phones!). Now they can all get super reception. I set up my unit (and my sisters too) to be 'off' my network in a DMZ. Configured my router to allot an IP as DMZ and let the Airave use it as the 'public' IP. That way that traffic doesn't 'mix' with my local net and wifi. Lastly I just went to Amazon and baught mine for like $50.00 U.S. My sister made calls for about a week and finally spoke to the right person(s) and got one free!
I just got the Airave and the only thing I can see improved on is the reception of my calls (I get 5 bars instead of 2)
4g is the same
and 3g is still slow as heck..
also it has a build in GPS.. to tell you where you are..
It has about a 300 foot radius so if you go past that point you most likely will jump to another tower.
and when making and getting calls you get 3 beeps letting you know you are on the Airave. also dialing *99 will give you a message to let you know you are on the service.
If I am not mistaken the air rave is for call quality. 4g is purely data. Why wouldn't you just use wifi?I would think 4g would be slower than wifi anyhow. Feel free to call BS on this.
it only help with cell service.
you just get the air wave. ( they should offer it for free..)
and get on wifi network.
Have one myself. Great for calls and SMS/MMS but the data speeds are maybe half the speed of my DSL. I just use wifi for anything but calls, makes sense to me. Sprint had recently changed something with their towers out here and we were left with absolutely no service on my property. Sprints corporate numbers, including the CEO's, are not hard to find. I called and tore them a new one, I wasn't letting them get off easy with this one, being a sprint customer for yeeeaaarrrss. Long story short I got a free air rave for life out of it which I think was fair of them to do.
Just a note, if you have low bandwidth and you make calls while downloading stuff or just eating the bandwidth in general, you will have stupid delays in you conversations. Its just awkward.
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Why not just connect to the wifi of your home network...
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Not true about data speed on my airwave at home i was at 2.5mbps
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Well maybe their speeds vary, but the whole point is if you have an air rave you most likely have wifi so why not just use that for data? The air rave is completely dependant on the broadband connection, its not like a range extender for sprint tower signal. I'm sure the phones modem has a lot to do with it as well.
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
Oops blank post. I meant to say, read this thread...two people have said they got one from sprint for free...I was one of them. Do you read through posts before you ask a question at all?
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i heard sprint will give you one of these free if you call and complain about the service in your house....any truth to this, cuz i cant text or call in my house if my depended on it
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YES & No!
If you have poor/fair service in your home, then just search xda forums for info on how to get it, or just PM me and I'll give you the info. I have very poor service in my home with sprint, that I just moved to. I and my family would all have to walk outside in the yard, to get a signal that was less likely to drop in the middle of the call. Even then, we only got 1-2 bars at most. In my house, we either didn't get a signal at all or it would drop out if we moved around.
I called the Sprint Retention line, and explained to them my issues with the service in my new home. I told her that I had searched the Sprint coverage map, and my area was listed with "Fair" service. She had me hold for just a few seconds to look up my address on their coverage map as well. Then she came back and explained the Airwave to me. I had never mentioned an airwave to this point.
She said that she had to check my area's coverage before offering it, because they've received a ton of request from people lately for this device, and many of them were in "excellent" coverage areas, and were simply calling because they heard they could get it for free. Just to have it I guess. Anyways, if you are in a poor-fair coverage area, and have real issues with coverage/dropped calls. Yes, they will send one for free and then not charge a dime. You just have to agree that it's their property and is to be returned at end of contract/service-termination.
I have one in my home as well. Works great. it doesnt support 4g but any sprint device will work with it. I get about 2-3 megs down with it running 3g.
I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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Free airaves
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I have a airave but get nowhere near the range some of you claim. Is there a way to boost it's range? I'm lucky to get 50 feet. Sorry if this is a hijack.
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sprint.com --> mysprint --> my preferences --> manage my airave --> range settings
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Awesome thank you.
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Actually, my Airave sucks. Somebody else in my building has one that is locked to their phone number, and my ET4G always get confused and connects to that one. It basically keeps me from making any phone calls in my house. I have to go all the way into the street to call.
So, please be kind and don't lock down your airave to your account.
Also, even when it does work, I still get **** data speeds.
I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
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I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
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i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
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i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
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I wish I could say the same, LF9 working better, could be my ISP also, recently found out Lousiana Suddenlink customers statewide had internet issues.
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My GS3 will only connect to my Airave for data, not voice. Power cycled both the Airave and the phone multiple times and nothing I do can get the thing to use the Airave for voice. I can still call out and receive calls, but i'm connected to a native Sprint tower. I don't get the usual tone you hear when you're connected to an Airave, the mobile light doesn't blink, and there's zero bandwidth usage on my router when calling. I can verify through my router that it is definitely connected to the Airave for 3G data though as I can almost peg my slow-ass 1.5 mbps DSL.
My Airave connects fine, but is as bad as it's ever really been. Only get about one or two walls worth of penetration with the stupid thing, it's pretty worthless in larger homes. In 2 bedrooms, the back yard, garage, and office the Airave just causes dropped calls. What I could use is a "Roaming Only" button, as there is very strong Verizon service in the area (those handful of times the phone goes to roaming are very good times).
This happens with the OG Epic, E4GT, GS3, iPhone 4S, and an old blackberry. If only they allowed us to up the xmit power on the things or install better antenna's.
I had LG2 and my airave was working okay. I have lg8 now and it seem to be working the same.
Sprint is sending me the new 2.5 airave device to replace my 2.0 one should have it shortly. Hopefully the new software in the 2.5 will work better. Been having your same issue since I got the device on lf9
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Can you physically tell a difference on the 2.5 from the 2.0. I recently got a new airave and was wondering which one I got.
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Seems like most people have had a decent experience with the Airave? I just ordered one off of ebay. Hoping to get more than 1 freaking bar in my apartment. I drop calls all the time and I have to go outside or stand near a window to get more than one bar. Hoping this will get me a couple more bars. Only spent 37$ for it...so it's not a huge loss if it doesn't work as advertised. I tried to get one free from sprint but alas, they however did say they would pay the 5$ or whatever it is per month so hopefully they'll still do (been a few mths) that when I call them up and tell them I have an Airave.
Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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I dont understand why people care if it has 1xrtt or evo rev a, or whatever!!
just turn on the darn wifi and who cares!
I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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that still doesn't explain why one can't just turn on the wifi? you are saying too much bandwidth speed is not good?
Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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ah ok.....i get it..you want to save bandwidth for your PC...lol..sorry..my bad
that makes sense...but when people try to use 3g data and complain from an airave, it's a moot point because most phones have wifi now
Yep add tends to stop me from typing in details lmao
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Sprint sent me an Airave due to poor signal at work. I use WiFi for data while I'm at work so that has never been an issue. I installed it in my server room (one wall between my office and the Airave) and I get full bars. I walk to my company's neighbor which is connected to our buisness and it drops to two bars (three wall and about 40' destance). The signal does drop but its still usable. Over all I am very happy with the product.
Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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i have the old one and I don't need to keep it in front of the router...i just plug it in the router like I plug in my computer to the router
Has anybody ever used a signal booster? My apartment gets a really weak data signal, but if I walk outside into the parking lot I'm getting H+. I know at one time, T-mobile "gave" out signal boosters to customers living in a house. No love for apartments or townhouses. I've seen plenty boosters at Amazon, but just wanted to see if any of you have first hand knowledge. Thanks a lot!
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Indoor Wilson's booster are the best. They are expensive but totally worth it. I work in the oilfields, we all have them in our living headquarters and work great.
I have something similar to this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GSM-DCS-9...ell_Phone_Signal_Boosters&hash=item41746bce11
It works really well on the 1st floor, weaker on the ground floor but still makes a difference between a dropped call and being able to talk. If you adda a splitter and a 2nd aerial for the ground floor then that would sort that out. I have had to reboot it about 4-5 times in the year or so that I have had it though. It seems to happen when too many phones are in the area, like family visiting etc.... So 10-15 mobiles in the house all on. Generally about 4-6 and no problems there.
Google "femtocell'. It might be what you're after.
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Um is there no Wi-Fi? I mean even most boosters use the internet
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Um is there no Wi-Fi? I mean even most boosters use the internet
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Never seen a signal booster that needs internet for it to work.
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Well I'm on Sprint so things may be different but yes I have a booster and to get data (3g/4g) boost it has to be connected to the internet
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Signal boosters (repeaters) don't need Internet. Airaves do.
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A microcell uses the internet to create a WiFi AP sized cell site. Similar in practical result to a repeater, but a repeater or amplifier just amplifies or repeats a signal from a normal cell tower. Generally a microcell will be better if you have an available Internet connection, but a repeater will be much more flexible.
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I've got an Airave at my house to try to boost it. They're unfortunately hit and miss and it doesn't do so well in my area.
I've seen a video once, where a guy uses a can to strengthen the wi-fi signal. Haven't tried it myself, but I thought you should consider it since it's free.
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I've seen a video once, where a guy uses a can to strengthen the wi-fi signal. Haven't tried it myself, but I thought you should consider it since it's free.
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I've heard about this too, essentially you make it a makeshift satellite dish for your router from what I understand