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Skyroam Solis Wi-Fi Hotspot Modem Orange - S008
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I read very contradicting reviews about this product online and was quite wary to buy it, so I thought my experience will help someone. I bought it for my travels in South America (Brazil and Argentina per se), and it worked well for me. In Buenos Aires it worked without a hitch, and in Rio it had a few occasional hiccups, but all-in-all - it was a very decent performance. What I discovered is that Solis needs a very stable and strong cell signal to work well. And since in BA there is no problem with that, it worked great. In Rio the cell service is notoriously patchy (locals sometimes carry cell phones from different providers, and switch between them depending on which signal is better). Funny thing - the worst performance Solis showed was in my apartment in Manhattan, NYC, but I get a terrible signal there. So, in summary - if you are traveling to a big city with good cell service, you should have no issues. If you will be somewhere where the signal is not so great, probably you should skip it. And - when turned on, Solis takes quite a while to connect to a cell network (5-10 minutes sometimes), so be patient.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
tried and tried to set this up for use. got help from a tech person at library. never got it going. Still have it. Device seems solid and well made but can't get it going or keep it going. Tech support lady working from home would like to set it up for me, but that leaves me not knowing much about why it does not work or what to do if it happens again, Just have it on the shelf for now. An online review also suggests set up issues, but very good after getting past that.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
If you travel through major world airports and have to pay for wifi you know you can easily spend 20-30 USD a day and those Airport WiFi Systems are monitored and slow due to low bandwidth and always too many travellers using the system at the same time. SkyROAM Solis is light weight, no sim card needed, easy to use, doubles as a phone charger and the whole family (up to 5 cellphones / tablets) can log on at the same time.
Verified purchase: No
$8/day sounds reasonable for unlimited LTE, doesn't it? Two to three times what you would pay locally, but you only pay when you need it and it's always available when you do. Unfortunately, Skyroam doesn't offer $8/day for unlimited LTE. After you use just 500MB in a single day, you're throttled down to 2G speeds, which are barely better than your dialup modem in 1995. Think 5 kilobytes per second-- essentially unusable even for light browsing on today's web when webpages can be 2-3 MB apiece. I went to Spain and works very good in Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza and Mexico
Verified purchase: No
I spend too much time with tech support that burns up gigs before I can get a reasonable connection. Tech support is friendly and kind but it takes a long time to get a workable speed. Like 10-20 MBPS
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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