just a quick post really about a recently flashed (updated firmware) cradlepoint phs300 i installed at the secretcafe in sneinton.

marsha, the owner of the cafe had bought a supported modem for the phs300 i was sponsoring the space (through cradlepoint) with and i had to update the modem to get it working.

what surprised me thou was that this modem claimed to be 40% faster and support the new hspa+ standard — something believe it or not that was fairly new to me. i had not been keeping my eye on the ball about updates to the data cellular network side recently.

turns out that hspa+ *IS* really quiet speedy, the bootup time from cold was super quick and the upstream and downstream although weak in that part of sneinton was working and felt like home broadband.

i was really happy that she had a new modem as i had wondered if she could really get more than a handful of people through a mobile connection but with the turnaround and latency of connections and loadtimes reduced it should make for a speedy connection for most.

i’ll be looking into hspa+ a little bit more closer. now, if only cradlepoint would send me that mbr1400 out we could do some epic load balancing and fallover testing to see how five devices work on one router!

hey cradlepoint, how about it?

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