MiFi is not "intelligent" EVDO router we hoped for

Alex · Last edited by Alex on Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:01 am; edited 2 times in total

Back in December, we contacted Novatel to ask how they justified the "intelligent" part of the MiFi's description. Their answer was

Jim_in_VA · Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

It actually sounds "less intelligent" if it only supports 5 users - as Verizon claims.
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JoeCHecht · EVDO Junkie Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 409

"onboard Linux processor" ???

[LOL]

I want a "onboard Vista processor"

tz1 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject:

If you save the config, lots of interesting things are in the XML stream...

<routeoverusb>0</routeoverusb>
<allowedclients>5</allowedclients>
the plaintext password

Dwayne · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

can you save it, modify it, and upload it to modify those defaults?

tz1 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject:

It does seem to honor the number of connections setting (but the dhcp display will only show 5, and the drops are not in a pattern, and the 7th active connection was assigned a duplicate IP knocking another one off, though when I set the DHCP range to 2-99 instead of 2-10, I got all 7 devices).

Short answer - yes you can change things, but longer answer is that it might be flaky if you do. There is always the paperclip hole. Internet reset protocol: cl/IP.