When i got this little square device, my first reaction was: that's it? It's not much bigger than an olio. It weighs like a pack of napkins。
But for the next two weeks, i shoved it into a backpack, put it in an import bag, threw it in a co-pilot's cup rack and tortured it in three of the most common scenes. The conclusions may surprise some。
Scene one: cell phones -- it solves the embarrassment of "two cards are not enough"
My main machine is stuck to the main card and the secondary card, one for work, one for various banks, app, and the flow package is expensive — $30. 5g, over $5/g. Every trip, traffic runs faster than iron。
Put it onFollow wifiAfter that, i turned off the data switch on my cell phone and walked through the signal of this little white box. The televised video showed three series of documentaries, and back-office statistics ran 1. 8 g at a cost of less than $3. The saving is immediate。
But don't expect it to be faster than a direct phone. In the waiting room at the eastern station of chengzhou, 5g mobile phones run to 280 mbps, with wifi at the same location and only 90 mbps coming from the same operator network. You can see videos, you can brush web pages, but it's clear that king's glory feels about 20 milliseconds more delay than a straight line — it's not that it can't play, it's that it's out of hand。
More practical is sharing attributes. Three of them, each short video, didn't show up in carton. However, it is clear that after two hours of high-intensity use, the aeroplane temperature is close to 42°c and the hand is held on fire, and the speed of the network falls to around 40 mbps, which is active in lowering the frequency。
Scene 2: computers -- better than the hotel wifi, but don't try to replace width. And..
Those who travel with their notebooks have gone through the hotel wifi's "genscientific moment": the signal is full, the web page cannot be opened; or it slows from 8:00 to 11:00 every night, because the entire floor is robbing the bandwidth。
In this scene, wifi is..StabilityVictor. I tested at three different hotels, and at the height of the night, the hotel's free wifi delay was between 80 and 150 ms, with a maximum rate of 5 per cent; the accompanying wifi basically stabilized at 35-45 ms, with a rate of less than 0. 5 per cent. Videoconferences, hundreds of gigabytes of ppt files, nothing went wrong。
There is, however, a pit: long hang-up downloads reveal itself. I tried to use steam's next 50g game, which stabilized at about 8mb/s in the first 10 minutes, and then gradually fell to 3-4mb/s - not a network problem, but when the equipment heats up and starts to drop the frequency. Friends who want to replace broadband with it can give up. It's for “emergency work”, not for “continuing war”。
And there's a lot of details left out: computers walk through the usb line, wifi, which is more stable than opening hotspots. The usb shared network can be further reduced by 5-8 ms, and the equipment will be charged to the united states dollar at the same time. The disadvantage is that the computer has to be on, unlike the wifi model, to throw in the bag。
Scene 3: use it in the car -- the surprise, the choice
The walker wifi was placed on the smoke lighter usb mouth and thrown into the central armcar, with the whole person's mobile phone, the sideboard of the driver, and the back-rowing children's entertainment screen being connected simultaneously. The machine's own traffic card is often a “creasure” version of the operator's work, some of which do not open hot spots and some of which are prohibitively expensive。
A 300-kilometre drive, full online navigation, music streaming media, back-rowing animations, took about 4g traffic. This may have been overspent in the case of a car-borne handbag。
However, the problem is also specific: the quality of signals in vehicles is challenging. When passing through the tunnels at high speed, the long tunnel loses the device to the signal - navigation is fine because the route is cached, but the animated film in the back row is constricted and the children start to shout. In addition, the temperature in the car after the summer tan can be above 60°c and the equipment placed on the medium console will be tanned to the automatic shutdown. I moved it to the glove box. It's better。
Instead, the most useful function is to provide a network for the engine itself. The updates of the map of my car's own navigation will have to be downloaded by wifi, previously dedicated to mobile phone hotspots, now automatically connected to the car, and automatically updated on the map data on a monthly basis。
Who does it fit
Wifi wasn't a magic tool. It was just a flow cardShare hotspotsLittle tool. Its greatest value is not “quick”, but “stable” and “flexible” — stable connectivity quality, flexible package selection and shared capacity。
But after all this general experience, you might want to ask, "who are you using?" all the tests up there, and i have this one that's high-high with wifi. It's not hidden, it's not endorsed -- it's just been running for two weeks, and it's just a sample to break。
Hey wave's been working pretty hard these last two years. It's all over the store and the partners. The product logic is also straightforward — “purchase of food delivery equipment” — and hardware is not charged separately. I've got a double-net version of this one, two cards with a built-in connection to telecommunications, three power buttons to cut the net without entering the backstage and driving blindly. The amount of electricity on the screen, the signal, the flow is clear, and it does not have to be guessed like some equipment. An official 10-hour mark of 300 ma is used, and the actual use of eight or nine hours is minor。
So back to you:
If your needs are:
There's not enough mobile traffic
I can't stand the hotel network
I've been driving with my family, and i need a whole network
Trying to get a long-term set to keep the average monthly cost at around $20
That boom is worth considering — especially its long-term package, which is less than $20 a month for 3,000 g in 25 months, compared to most of the monthly packages on the market. If you expect it to replace home-based fibre-optic broadband, or play games for extremely low delays, save the money。
The white box, the size of the cigarette box, stayed in my bag for two weeks and decided to stay. It's not perfect — it's a set of foods, it's a passenger service for luck, it's a high-speed traffic, it's a ceiling — but it does not fall off the chain at those times when there's no net. Sometimes it is best to have enough。
