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Anyone try out these hotspots? Any opinions? The cost is comparable or cheaper to buying directly from a phone provider. Are the hotspot devices decent? Customizable?

The non profit itself seems interesting and privacy focused. Their OS seems well maintained and it "just works".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OP probably means this:

Internet Membership

Sign up for an Internet Membership and enjoy unlimited 4G or 5G mobile internet in all US states and territories.

Sounds very interesting! With such a service, I could finally throw away my phone number. That is, if this is a mobile hotspot like solution.
Its only US, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Am I missing something or is the price higher after the 2nd year?

Yearly: $500 for first year, $400 thereafter
Quarterly: $150 every three months

$600 for 3rd year?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Excuse me, what kind of overpricing this is? ~$50 a month is insane for phone service, what kind of perks do they add on top to justify THAT? Cheaper to just buy a truckload of anon simcards and change them like gloves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

No you can chose to have a quartly membership over a yearly commitment at the cost of paying more

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Only if you pay quarterly. If you pay the whole year it's 100 dollars less than the first year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently got their hotspot and its been good. I got the MIFI X PRO 5G and have no complaints. I can't speak to the privacy of it, but it uses a T-Mobile sim card. Do you have any questions in particular?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Very cool! Yeah can you have multiple SSID channels? Can you set the DNS? Does it perform as you'd expect?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You can have a primary network and guest network. As far as I can tell, you can't have more than that.

You can set DNS manually.

Here is a link to a pretty comprehensive user guide that explains all the settings. Maybe I missed something about the SSIDs. https://static.inseego.com/us/download/mifixpro-userguide-tmobile.pdf