Straight Talk Z291DL ZTE 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot: 4G LTE connectivity Connect up to 10 WiFi-enabled devices LED icon indicators WiFi power-save options Compact — fits in your pocket Battery in use Time: up to 15 hours Battery Standby Time: up to 10 days Size 4.1" x 2.3" x 0.6"
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Item model number | VIPRB-Z291DL |
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Product Id | 259374 |
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User Reviews and Ratings | 3 (1 ratings) 3 out of 5 stars |
UPC | 616960173144 |
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works good so far, only used few days, hard to tell data usage on this model without display, website little fuzzy on data usage and remaining balance. but good product for price, easy to activate and the data will roll over if you keep it activated
I am from overseas on my biz trip stay in the US 20days in a month. Some hotels does not have good wifi connections. I purchased 2GB and activated by hotel phone. Activation was easy and it took 5 minutes. Right after activation, there was no security pass word. So I had to set up pass word. If you do not do this, anyone can access your hotspot and spend your GB very fast. I can check remaining GB by log into my account. It took almost 2 weeks to appear my remaining GB. I probably used 2 hours a day for 7 days, Internet surfing, e mails. SNS by iPhone and MacBook Air. Total used was 0.87GB. It is not a bad.
hotspot works great. feels great in the hand, lightweight for pocket use, battery lasts awhile and is user replaceable, indicator lights are clear and easy to see. when you have data left on your plan, the hotspot works great. strong signal, speed tests are ok too. problem is with how it suspiciously burns through data so fast. not sure how they're calculating it. i use the hotspot 14 days a month, at work. i initially purchased a 1GB card, as I assumed 80-100mb a day was enough for texting and rss news checking. blew through 1gb in a few days. i noticed (through a wifi data manager app) that the plan gets diminished very fast due to how much data it uses just to connect the device to the hotspot. this is pretty shady. if you turn off the hotspot and reconnect to it about 5 times, that's 100mb, give or take. bad business practice. does the hotspot work great ? yes. no issues functionality wise. in the business of charging people for data, it's lucrative. they way they go about "charging" you for data and keeping track of the data you use, not too great.
Bought this a few weeks ago. Product itself is ok. Verizon slows it down but that is to be expected. The machine eats your data. I had used my phone and never went above 1.5 gb but in 10 days this said I had used 5. I have wifi on work phone so know exactly how much I use. When I called the first time, their system said I still had 1 gb left but they had to reset it. No way for you to check. I was told then that I could put the hotspot on my app and could view progress. Never worked. A couple days after resetting, it again ran out .When I called this time tthey said the app doesn't wi work that way and even the website isnt correct due to "upgrades that may take weeks to months". The only way to know is to call them . I have been given several "direct" numbers all of which go directly to straight talk phone customer service. Was given a number and an extension that I couldn't put in. Spent the better part of 30 minutes tryng to get someone to help, bur only got the canned answers. Also you can't reload befire you use up your current card or you will lose data. You have to run out first. Crazy. NOT WORTH THE HASSLE AND INCORRECT LOGHING OF DATA USAGE.
My Straight Talk Hotspot is nothing but irritating. It always quits randomly and it is impossible to get a balance check. I waste tons of time trying to stay connected. Last time I tried customer service I got someone in a very distant country that had no idea what he was talking about. I give up and am looking for an alternative product/carrier.
I got a $25 card, lasted me 4 days with barely no use. Bought a $50 card and it last a week with very little use only Facebook about 30 mins. twice a day and no video watching. When I first got it the $50 card would stop working after 30 days and their customer service people were rude and didn't know what they were doing so I started getting just a 30 day card so I wouldn't have to call them anymore. But the last 2 months its stopped showing how much data I have and sucks the data dry when I'm not even online. The data started disappearing after they were no longer letting me see my data amount.
I bought this device because I'm in college and don't have wifi at my house. After 2 days of doing a little bit of homework it's shows up on my laptop saying no internet access. So i went to the website to get help and basically got told it's my laptops problem for not connecting.
They steal your data! Don't buy it! My data card expired for no apparent reason. Bought a new one (2gigs) loaded it, turned off the device, turned it on the next day, no data! Called non english speaking customer service, they would not help, left me on hold for over an hour, then disconnected me. Not worth the frustration!
it was horrible! it wouldnt stay connected to the internet and calling Straight Talk for help was a huge waste of time! i spent 3 days trying to get the hotspot connected to the internet and once i was transferred over to someone that understood me and what i was saying and vise verse the representative said i had used my 5 gbs smh like how when i never connected to the internet to use any of it! and the representative had the nerve to ask if i would like to purchase another service plan smh. i cant get a refund on the $50 service card i didnt use but i will be returning the hotspot and getting my $54 dollars back because that was ridiculous! Straight Talk has definitely lost one of their most loyal customers!
This is a terrible system, I had a hotspot device with MTN from South Africa and I never ran out of data with that carrier. I purchased this TracFone hotspot last Thursday evening and by Sunday morning I had already run through 5.5 GB of my 7 GB allocation of data, and for some reason I was shut out of my Internet. I didn't download movies and I'm not a gamer, normally I am just using email and browsing the Internet with my iPad and Sony notebook as a single user with a 13 character password. No one stole my access. I called technical support in the Philippines to find out why my internet access was off and after I was escalated up through several different layers of bureaucracy for 1.7 hours on hold during various conversations with three different people. The female supervisor who was very nice, but English was not the first language for any of the support personnel, told me that she would re-authorize five additional gigabytes to replace that which I had already used, but she was having difficulty with her computer system, so I was transferred to another support person. However, the best the next person would do for me was to authorize access to my original remaining 1.5 gigabytes (which I ran out the next day). After using up that much data in 2.5 days I was trying to conserve the remaining data, so I turned the hotspot off when I wasn't using it, I was very careful to avoid using my data by not downloading images attached to my email, and I still went through my remaining 1.5 GB in one day and my internet access was blocked again. Why I was blocked after 5.5 GB in a 7 GB package in the first place was never explained and wasting that much time on the phone for a relatively simple fix is beyond my understanding. Based on my previous hotspot use in Africa, I thought this would be the ideal system for me as I travel around for my work but with this much data consumption this is not a suitable system for anybody who has a business use for their device. It's too bad, the concept is useful but there has be something wrong with the infrastructure for the device. The 7 GB (2 month) data package at StraightTalk is too expensive, especially if this hotspot device burns up your data. V. W. Henry