In our little town, just about everyone has Verizon Fios. It's amazing, since we live in a rural town that does not even have cable TV. For whatever reason, some roads got bypassed – too few houses per mile, or something. What to do? Keep dialing up at 56K? Not if you have a half-way decent cell phone signal.
Last week I helped a friend set up a home network with a Verizon USB broadband dongle. And it works pretty darn well.
I got him a Kyocera KR2 mobile router. It is compatible with a whole bunch of 1XEVDO cards , including USB, PCMCIA and Express cards. You have to check to make sure that your card is supported, and so what if it isn't – just turn your card in and get a new one that is on the list!
I was really impressed with the KR2 router. It has all the capabilities of a first class wireless broadband router. You can use it for a broadband connection, and then the EVDO card becomes a 'fail over' in the event your cable or fiber optic connection goes down. Most of us don't need that kind of connectivity, but it's nice to know. It has dynamic DNS capabilities, port forwarding, routing, the latest wifi security protocols. And it worked right out of the box just the way it was supposed to!
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