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How's the Rezound's hotspot capability?

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wsettle

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I am considering jumping the AT&T ship and moving to Verizon since they have the double data deal. I use 8-12GBs of data a month using my iPhone as a hotspot and it works well but I'm spending $80-$100 a month in data charges so the double data deal should cut my data charges in half.

Like others, I've fondled the Razr and Rezound and like the Rezound better.

My only concern is if the Rezound can handle multiple hours of hotspotting when 3-5 devices are pulling data through it.

Has anyone used the hotspot on the Rezound and have any good or bad news to share?
 
Personally don't see any reason it wouldn't be able to 'handle' it. Obviously you would need to be plugged in but as long as you have a good 4g signal I don't see a problem.
 
Thanks but that is what every sales rep and manufacture will tell you but there is never any published testing done on them for reference which is why I'm asking for any real world results.

My iPhone, while working well at hotspoting alone, will heat up and quit after 20-60 minutes if the hotspot and bluetooth are enabled. I have to reboot the device, turn off bluetooth and re-enable the hotspot to restore hotspot functionality. A corp ATT rep and a Apple "genius" (there is a contradiction in terms) have verified this is an issue with iPhone 4's with two other iPhone 4s they had in stock.

So now I'm gun shy and hope someone will have put the Rezound through it's hotspoting paces and can confirm it's hotspotting capabilities. I'd really rather not take the leap to a new phone and carrier just to find out it's sucks at heavy hotspotting use.

Appreciate the feedback though.
 
Sadly, its the same or worse. Im thinking its an issue with the software. Saw the same issues with the Droid Charge and Thundercrap. It works good until for some reason it completely disconnects from the network for reasons unknown. I get 2-3 bars avg, with speeds from 4mbs to 16 weird I know. Reason why I know its the software, I can download 1GB+ files with lil to no issues on the phone. However, when I connect my Ps3 or a laptop , it tends to disconnect (no 3G or 4G or even 1x icon for that matter) I was extremely disappointed to find this bbug still plaguing new phones.
 
I have not used the Rezound for a hot sport yet as I don't pay for it, but when I got my T-bolt it was free and my son and I were traveling for Hockey and for Hockey night in Boston the hotel only had wifi in the lobby I would plug my T-bolt in to the charger turn the hot spot on and we would use his macbook and my Ipad for hours on end like that, the phone did not over heat or disconnect, and the speed was better than most hotel wifi anyway.

Max
 
I dont think its my area or phone. Maybe its over populated with 4G devices? Like I posted, i have downloaded large files or stream music non stop for over 4 hours but once I turn on the mobile hotspot it acts up. Did it on three different 4G phones, the 4G icon completely disappears even though there are bars showing. Weird.....
 
BlueSnake01,

So you have a Rezound and it is does the same as your old Charge and Thundercrap? Is so, that doesn't sound good or me as I just orderded my Rezound from Amazon today using that crazy one cent deal.

DroidL,

Appreciate the feedback. My iPhone works as a hot spot 24x7 as long as the bluetooth is turned off.
 
I haven't teatheres in my rezound since there's no root yet and I won't pay for it ha but on my thundrrbolt it replaced dsl I could stream video on my ps3, while me and my room ate had our laptops teathered and still use my tbolt as a ph one . Never saw a hiccup I imagine the rezound will be better as my 4g speed s are much faster then my thunderbolt
 
ChiTownJim said:
I haven't teatheres in my rezound since there's no root yet and I won't pay for it ha but on my thundrrbolt it replaced dsl I could stream video on my ps3, while me and my room ate had our laptops teathered and still use my tbolt as a ph one . Never saw a hiccup I imagine the rezound will be better as my 4g speed s are much faster then my thunderbolt
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Speaking of which, does anyone know if there is a way to bypass the tethering restrictions on this phone, like dialing ##778, and then changing the Default Mi.P profile like with the DInc and DInc 2? ##778 gets me to the EPST menu, but the settings are all different, no doubt because this is a 4G device.
 
Yeah the tethering restriction blows I used my Thunderbolt as my primary internet for my home . I cant even use easy tether . I've had to use my EVO for my home internet and it is painfully slow and unreliable
I even tried to temp root and just never turn my Rezound off but failed couldn't get it to work 4 tries 3 different computers
 
After being on the phone in 2 different days, a visit to a VZW corp store and a final call that was about 40 min long, looks like we might have a hotspot problem in our area. They're sending a technician to check it out, will take 2-4 business days. They credit me 4 months of Hotspot, hopefully it gets fixed. Kind of excited, hopefully it works good!!
 
BlueSnake01 said:
After being on the phone in 2 different days, a visit to a VZW corp store and a final call that was about 40 min long, looks like we might have a hotspot problem in our area. They're sending a technician to check it out, will take 2-4 business days. They credit me 4 months of Hotspot, hopefully it gets fixed. Kind of excited, hopefully it works good!!
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That doesn't make sense. The mobile hotspot feature is a phone capability and has nothing to do with the Verizon network. The mobile hotspot is all in the phone.

However, you may be using a Verizon hotspot that you are close to and that would make sense what he said.
 
I've had my Rezound for about 24 hours now and can say that the mobile hotspot feature works great. I'm not in a 4G area at home so I use 3G only. The mobile hotspot is my only source of internet connectivity and the phone rocks but Verizon service sucks. I had so many dropped packets last night it made the whole experience frustrating.

I'm really surprised that Verizon has been doing this for so many years and AT&T is still years ahead in network stability. Except for the speed,it reminds me of using Edge on a new network back in 2003. There was a lot of growing pains back then but AT&T learned from it an got so much better.

About midnight, I stopped having dropped packets and things smoothed out nicely so this leads me to believe that Verizon is selling WAY more data plans than they can physically support so as more folks get online, they push others off or put them in a queue until they timeout.

Even trying to watch a youtube video at 240p was a challenge. I'd loose connectivity 30 seconds into the stream and the flash player would hang. It may take 2 minutes to hang but there were very few 2-5 minute videos that I was able to start and watch through to the end without a dropout.

Surfing the web worked pretty good but anytime I tried to steam a video or view a lot of pics (like the wall papers in another post), the network would stutter and fail... miserably.

My iPhone on AT&T does not do that. I'm pretty sure it's not a phone issue, it's the network.

Does Verizon suck everywhere? (a frustrated rhetorical question)

So far, my new user experience has not been that great with Verizon.

I do have 3 bars of service so I'm not so far out in the boonies I can't get good service. Does anyone have any suggestions that may make it better?
 
wsettle said:
I've had my Rezound for about 24 hours now and can say that the mobile hotspot feature works great. I'm not in a 4G area at home so I use 3G only. The mobile hotspot is my only source of internet connectivity and the phone rocks but Verizon service sucks. I had so many dropped packets last night it made the whole experience frustrating.

I'm really surprised that Verizon has been doing this for so many years and AT&T is still years ahead in network stability. Except for the speed,it reminds me of using Edge on a new network back in 2003. There was a lot of growing pains back then but AT&T learned from it an got so much better.

About midnight, I stopped having dropped packets and things smoothed out nicely so this leads me to believe that Verizon is selling WAY more data plans than they can physically support so as more folks get online, they push others off or put them in a queue until they timeout.

Even trying to watch a youtube video at 240p was a challenge. I'd loose connectivity 30 seconds into the stream and the flash player would hang. It may take 2 minutes to hang but there were very few 2-5 minute videos that I was able to start and watch through to the end without a dropout.

Surfing the web worked pretty good but anytime I tried to steam a video or view a lot of pics (like the wall papers in another post), the network would stutter and fail... miserably.

My iPhone on AT&T does not do that. I'm pretty sure it's not a phone issue, it's the network.

Does Verizon suck everywhere? (a frustrated rhetorical question)

So far, my new user experience has not been that great with Verizon.

I do have 3 bars of service so I'm not so far out in the boonies I can't get good service. Does anyone have any suggestions that may make it better?
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Verizon 3G is not fast or reliable but there LTE is amazing. I use to have a 3g USB modem it worked but was slow.
AT&T has much better 3G data speeds then Verizon
 
wsettle said:
That doesn't make sense. The mobile hotspot feature is a phone capability and has nothing to do with the Verizon network. The mobile hotspot is all in the phone.

However, you may be using a Verizon hotspot that you are close to and that would make sense what he said.
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The 4G works PERFECTLY when its used on the phone only. Soon as mobile hotspot turns on, it drops the service for unknown reasons. I had the mobile hotspots on a thunderbolt, Droid Charge and now Rezound. 3 different devices says its the network or the hotspots program.
ChiTownJim said:
Verizon 3G is not fast or reliable but there LTE is amazing. I use to have a 3g USB modem it worked but was slow.
AT&T has much better 3G data speeds then Verizon
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I can agree, but also disagree. 4G is not exactly reliable, mine tends to drop as low as 2mb's but reach speeds to 18mb's in the same spot. Regardless 2 or 18mb's it still extremely fast compared to my 3G service which avg was at 350kb's. I'm very satisfied except for the mobile hotspots.
 
BlueSnake01 said:
I can agree, but also disagree. 4G is not exactly reliable, mine tends to drop as low as 2mb's but reach speeds to 18mb's in the same spot. Regardless 2 or 18mb's it still extremely fast compared to my 3G service which avg was at 350kb's. I'm very satisfied except for the mobile hotspots.
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Guess it all depends where u live. I actually leave mine in LTE only mode because there is coverage everywhere in Denver and the surrounding cities I see downloads as low as 5mbps and as high as 47mbps my 3g is between 500kbps and 1.5mbps
 
It's been 3 days now and I'm still getting drop outs on occasion but it seems like it is getting a little better. The speed is about the same 1 Mbps down and up as AT&T is if not just a tad slower at peak times. AT&T is a solid 1Mbps at peak times but I would get bursts of 2-3Mbps down after hours.

Verizon's 3G speed is acceptable for where I live as the closest tower is about 7 miles away as the crow flies and it's got AT&T and Verizon on the same tower.

At work yesterday, where there is 4G coverage, I got 50Mbps and downloaded a full length movie in just a couple of minutes. This is one power house of a phone/computer when it's coupled with a 4G network.

Bluesnake,

I lost my hotspot when I docked my phone. I found the setting to turn off "automatic" wifi when docked. The hotspot will stop if wifi is turned on. I wonder if your issue is an app related one where some event is disabling it in the background?
 
It's not disabling the hotspot, its enabled. Even if the wifi is on, it automatically tturns it off when you enable the hotspot. I tried the auto to 1-X setting and still not luck. Here are screencaps of my problem


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Got it. It looks like your hotspot feature works fine (as in mobile wireless routing feature) and you are loosing your 3G/4G cellular connection. Basically, Verizon cannot handle the traffic that the other 1,000 folks in your area are demanding of it and the Verizon network stutters, fails then cuts you off like a bad connection.

You are having the same issues as I am. The hotspot is still working but I loose my cellular connection. My desktop, laptop, tablet and resound are still connected via wifi and can still transfer files between them which tells me the hotspot is working fine.
 
wsettle said:
Got it. It looks like your hotspot feature works fine (as in mobile wireless routing feature) and you are loosing your 3G/4G cellular connection. Basically, Verizon cannot handle the traffic that the other 1,000 folks in your area are demanding of it and the Verizon network stutters, fails then cuts you off like a bad connection.

You are having the same issues as I am. The hotspot is still working but I loose my cellular connection. My desktop, laptop, tablet and resound are still connected via wifi and can still transfer files between them which tells me the hotspot is working fine.
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I was having the same problem with my TB, but my Rezound is much better. I could watch hours of Youtube, Hulu, or Netflix and never had a problem. But I'd lose my data connection after just 5 minutes or less of casual browsing with my hotspot. So it's definitely not a problem with network load. There is something else going on here.
 
gvillager said:
I was having the same problem with my TB, but my Rezound is much better. I could watch hours of Youtube, Hulu, or Netflix and never had a problem. But I'd lose my data connection after just 5 minutes or less of casual browsing with my hotspot. So it's definitely not a problem with network load. There is something else going on here.
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+1 That's my problem except it only does it with the hotspot. I can stream for hours on netflix or download file's that are over 1GB on the phone. As soon as the hotspot is on and a devce is connected to it,my case my PS3/iPad it completely blanks. I would have to say is the hotspots app.
 
Do either of you have multiple devices connected to your Rezound hotspot?

If so, can you still transfer a file between the two devices when you can not access the internet? i.e. using a samba or mac share point between the two?

I can still transfer files fine or print to my wireless printer when my mobile network drops so in my mind, the hotspot is working.

But you may be right in that the hotspot feature (analogous to a Linksys wireless router) may be causing the mobile network issue. I'm pretty sure it's the RF network (3G/4G) at my location and/or the network routing system at the tower.

When I'm using the "LTE/CDMA" network mode, I get constant dropouts when the radio tries to switch between 3G/4G even though there is no 4G around here. When I use "CDMA only", I get minimal dropouts at peak times and zero dropouts at off-peak times.

As my download speed goes down, the dropouts start up which indicates a over-loaded network to me. Reminds me of AT&T growing pains 10 years ago.

I truly hope it's a software issue that can be fixed in an update but fear it's a Verizon network issue.
 
wsettle said:
Do either of you have multiple devices connected to your Rezound hotspot?

If so, can you still transfer a file between the two devices when you can not access the internet? i.e. using a samba or mac share point between the two?

I can still transfer files fine or print to my wireless printer when my mobile network drops so in my mind, the hotspot is working.
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This works fine for me.

wsettle said:
As my download speed goes down, the dropouts start up which indicates a over-loaded network to me.
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My speeds/connection return to normal after I've rebooted the phone and laptop which wouldn't happen if the network was over-loaded. I think it's just bad software in the phone.
 
I only have one device connected to it when the drop outs happen. It doesnt really make any sense since i noted that it only drops when hotspot is on. I can turn it off and stream netflix with no problem. Its a big frustration since I noted that its my third different phone having the same exact problems. It only leaves the hotspots or network to be the problem.
 
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