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I don't want to use a dedicated portable hotspot. My only restriction is I'm not going to buy a Chinese owned brand phone (Huwawei, Xiaomi etc). Made in China is fine (let's face it, most brands are).

 

Aside from this I guess compact size and ruggedness are a plus. Strong transmission of the WiFI signal is obviously important but there's no way to know which phone is better.

 

 

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Why a dedicated phone.

Why not Huawei or Xaomei. My Huawei has been faultless for 5 years.

If dedicated, why do size, compactness and ruggedness matter?

As Bignok says, use the one youve got.

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16 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Using a phone as a hotspot on a semi permanent basis will kill it's battery in no time.   

Why "I don't want to use a dedicated portable hotspot."  They are cheap and easy to use!

Exactly. Don't want to wear out my s21 doing hotspot duties.

 

Don't like dedicated hotspots because you have to pull the Sim out every time you want to renew your plan. 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, csaba81 said:

Exactly. Don't want to wear out my s21 doing hotspot duties.

 

Don't like dedicated hotspots because you have to pull the Sim out every time you want to renew your plan. 

 

 

Buy a one year sim!

 

PS;  it might help if you say how much data per day/month and where and how you intend to use it!

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2 minutes ago, csaba81 said:

Exactly. Don't want to wear out my s21 doing hotspot duties.

 

Don't like dedicated hotspots because you have to pull the Sim out every time you want to renew your plan.

In AIS at least they have terminals that you can just enter the phone number and feed it money to top up.

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44 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Why a dedicated phone.

Why not Huawei or Xaomei. My Huawei has been faultless for 5 years.

If dedicated, why do size, compactness and ruggedness matter?

As Bignok says, use the one youve got.

I don't buy anything from a Chinese owned company if i can avoid it.

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3 minutes ago, csaba81 said:

I don't buy anything from a Chinese owned company if i can avoid it.

Chinese food?

There's most of your electrical goods as well. 

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The question is why not buy something like a SIM card router? But if you do be careful. There is a lot of scrap on the market. Somebody wrote a very long story about SIM card routers here in this forum. The topic was if I remember correctly "Your experience with SIM card routers". 

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29 minutes ago, csaba81 said:

I have an expensive Samsung phone and using it as a hotspot all the time isn't good. Better to use a cheap phone.

Why not buy a decent sim router

 

I like this company https://www.gl-inet.com they are based in HK, Its run by an English guy. Support and products are spot on and intuitive.

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13 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

The question is why not buy something like a SIM card router? But if you do be careful. There is a lot of scrap on the market. Somebody wrote a very long story about SIM card routers here in this forum. The topic was if I remember correctly "Your experience with SIM card routers". 

Bought a TP link router (1500 THB) which took a sim card (DTAC 1500 THB for 1 year, max speed 30mbps)

 

3 grand all in, cheap as chips, streams TV.

 

Fast enough for what I want in a second condo.

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1 minute ago, sungod said:

Bought a TP link router (1500) which took a sim card (DTAC 1500, max 30mbps)

 

3 grand all in, cheap as chips, streams TV.

 

Fast enough for what I want in a second condo.

Yes, if possible look for something with a brand name. But even then you have to understand things like CAT 4, CAT 6 or whatever and the frequency bands it can handle. 

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20 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

Yes, if possible look for something with a brand name. But even then you have to understand things like CAT 4, CAT 6 or whatever and the frequency bands it can handle. 

 

There was some great threads about sim routers in this forum, like you say the different generations and stream aggregation, one guy really knew his stuff.

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16 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

He is talking MOBILE Wi-Fi not ethernet cables!!

In this case it has nothing at all to do with ethernet cables. I know, it is confusing. But CAT whatever is used for wireless phone/data connections too. 

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