Comments on: Mini review – 3 MiFi

By: Chris Swan

Chris Swan — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:08:35 +0000

The Xbox 360 doesn’t have WiFi, so you need some kind of adaptor. There seems to be an official MS one, or you could use a suitable WiFi access point in client mode (and plug it into the Xbox’s network port).

NB I have not tried using my own Xbox 360 and MiFi together in this way, but I can’t see any reason why it shouldn’t work.

By: tigpell

tigpell — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:17:21 +0000

so can you connect it to the xbox 360 if so how?

By: russ leigh

russ leigh — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:25:25 +0000

i flashed mine so i could turn the wifi cutt off to off so its on all the time now also its now unlocked and i,m useing a prepay voda sim at 50p a day (no its not monitored as i use 2 to 300 mb per day easy ) dc unlocker was the best option i found pay your £15
and it does it for you. what i liked about all this was telling bt to shove it were the sun don’t shine . my broadband now only costs me £15 to £16 a month skype gamming on the xbox ect internet any were i want and speeds of 2 to 3 mb .were with bt i was paying £23 a month and speeds of around 1.8 mb.

By: Chris Swan

Chris Swan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:39:28 +0000

I never found 3′s service all that reliable in Canary Wharf – just too many people in those banks trying to keep on top of Facebook and Twitter I guess. I think the way the MiFi doesn’t allow auto reconnect would be particularly aggravating in that environment.

By: Iain McEwen

Iain McEwen — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:01:50 +0000

Sent mine back – absolute rubbish, no connectivity most of the time. Sending it back was of course a different nightmare that took about 3 weeks to resolve…

By: Chris Swan

Chris Swan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:25:33 +0000

In my experience the 3.6mbps speed is notional rather than realistic, 7.2 doubly so. I flashed my Novatel XU870 to do 7.2mbps, but it makes precious little difference. If you get to use your E170 somewhere that you can notice the upgrade then that’s pretty good going.

By: jackie

jackie — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:08:26 +0000

Well whilst it may be a good little device it’s 3.6mbps speed is lousy, I prefer the E170 huawei dongle which offers 7.2mbps and with the use of a d100 router get better results for wifi devices at home or away

By: Damien Walker

Damien Walker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:17:51 +0000

Hi guys, I too have a E5830 and am looking for a way to unlock it so it will accept another sim. Any ideas?

By: Peter Garner

Peter Garner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:18 +0000

I’m very pleased with mine so far – I upgraded from the E220 and play an extra GBP1.50 a month for nearly double the data allowance, so a win there..

I’m currently using it with my Sony PSP2000 – I’ve been streaming Internet radio in the office for the past couple of days without a hitch. I also use it for the embedded Skype on the PSP and today I was experimenting with the little PSP camera and uploaded a couple of surprisingly good quality images to my web site. I’m averaging 1.5Mbps download and 320Kbps upload speeds. Tomorrow I’m going to find a large, isolated field and er, run a proper field test, probably uploading to Twitpic.com. The PSP is fast becoming my Road Warrior’s tool of choice and now that Skype works I can tell the WAP operators where to shove their port blocking.

The only change I’ve made so far (other than the passphrase) is to reduce the DHCP lease time to around 40,000 as the default 86,400 had the PSP unable to connect once or twice as the lease hadn’t expired.

The only other problem I’ve had is trying to get my Dell Inspiron 6400 (Vista) to connect wirelessly: it can connect (eventually) but seems unable to get the MiFi to recognise the passphrase.