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people don't always like when I say what's up guys so instead of an introduction I think I'm just gonna go ahead and babble nervously so the Verizon my fight twenty two hundred really is a very cool device blows you that maybe not familiar with that you haven't seen some of my prior videos let me recap what this does and there's a sprint version of this as well it takes Verizon's EVDO Rev a network so there are three G Network essentially sucks it in kicks it out as a Wi-Fi signal that up to five people can connect to so lets you use Verizon's Wi-Fi signal really wherever you are so let's talk about some of the positives of the device it is really small and very possible it's about the size of eight credit card stack which is quite nice you can very easily slide this in your backpack your purse your back pocket your man purse wherever you want and it's not going to take up that much room battery life is relatively strong in four hours using an 1,150 milliamp hour battery something huge but it does have a micro USB port so you can plug this into a computer actually live in charge while it's working which is quite nice I've also been very impressed with Verizon Wireless --is data speeds I ran a speed test last week sort of showing how quick things work and page is loaded very fast it was quite impressive certainly for everyday browsing and emailing this is gonna be almost as fast as your regular broadband speeds even if your megabits per second are crazy faster crazy slower you know when you're just looking at a website you know CNN whatever it is you're looking at keep waving this thing around it's gonna load very fast it's quick enough even for some mobile gaming if money uses for Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network or whatever the Nintendo calls their thing this can actually work for it some of the downsides of the device itself I wish it had a battery indicator I have no idea how much battery is left on here and external screens to sort of show it or a button that you push with some LED lights I got no way of telling where the battery's gonna die and we'll just die it's got a light that blinks may let you know is connected but other than that that's about it for external indicators but definitely wish that I could sort of tell what the battery life was as far as the device itself goes that's really the only negative that I had with it it does exactly what you'd expect it to do exactly as advertised so let's talk about some of the plans the things that you need to get with this well you can buy this on contract meaning you're paying less and you're signing a two-year contract so I think of it as essentially just a cell phone same concept applies you can sign a contract pay a subsidized lower price and you're stuck into a one or two-year contract with set rates each month in the my vice case you can get five gigs and the top five gigs of storage space it's five gigs of bandwidth so it's five gigs up or down per month for $60 or for forty dollars per month you can get two hundred and fifty megabytes which is totally crazy if you get the two hundred fifty megabytes or megabytes and you go over which definitely will you're gonna be paying $0.10 per megabyte over which is huge if you get the $60 five gig plan million paying five cents per megabyte over some people say you know five gigs that's not gonna be enough it's not gonna be enough if you're doing just regular browsing it's going to be plenty five gigs is actually an almost equivalent of eight hours of video streaming so if you're gonna s straight video streaming for eight straight hours that'll take up your five if you're just doing emailing some picture downloading even some YouTube video watching you're going to be fine I'm not gonna come close to hitting that threshold I'm very animated with my hands today and I'm gonna come close to hitting that threshold sixty bucks is definitely a little bit on the expensive side but you are getting a nice wireless internet anywhere you go so people are always asking at least a fan to me what's the advantage of the Maya fight over a USB dongle or something I can plug into my computer well the advantages are actually quite numerous let me tell you what they are first no USB port if you're using a MacBook Air or a netbook or a device with a few USB ports those are precious so this doesn't take one the next really big point of it if you can share it with your friends if you're out if your color student for example around at the library and they don't have internet there you can share this with five people and you can encrypt it and you get full sort of router maintenance online they would with any other router whether it's an airport extreme a Linksys Netgear a whatever weirdo emu might have you get all of the same options with the MiFi so it's quite handy in that regard in addition to one of the things I mentioned in a previous video you can use your iPhone or another phone essentially on Verizon's network since this is just Wi-Fi suck it in there EVDO Rev a network you can use Skype or another client in conjunction with call forwarding I never really have to go through AT&T or whatever your other carriers if you're with Sprint do you don't want to go through them or you're with t-mobile you don't want to go with them it really is a nice option you can use it with more than just a computer with the USB port it can use it with anything I've been thrilled with the MiFi most of the things that I get I used to review and then I sent back for this I bought and I was quite happy to buy it now I bought it going back to the whole contract thing I bought this without a contract so I paid about two hundred and sixty dollars for it but I can stop my $60 a month plant whenever I like I can put it on hold essentially if I say you know I'm not using it I'm not gonna be traveling for a while to put it on hold and if I'm going on vacation or going somewhere where I'm gonna need it call Verizon up say hey I want you to turn it on and then I start paying my plan again so I get a lot more freedom than I would if I took the subsidy from the device like this that runs you 260 bucks I really can't see why you would take the contract and the long run is gonna cost you much much much more you end up saving about 110 dollars total if you do the contract and you're stuck with two years now the ability to stop service suspend service and Verizon's in the process of putting out a 4g network which will certainly will come out in that two-year contract so that comes out all I gotta do is to put this bad boy on Craigslist or Ebay pick up the 4G version I don't have to worry about any early termination fees it's quite nice and it's a really I think affordable way to go so if I decide that I'm not using it for a while I'm just gonna suspend it and if I meet it again call rise it up and I'm good to go on a one to five scale I highly recommend the Verizon Wireless MiFi and I'd give it a very strong five it does exactly what's advertised and it does it extremely well I can't speak for the Sprint version but it's made by the same company and I would assume that if you get good Sprint service your experience will be just as positive so guys hope you enjoyed my sort of rambling on the my five if you want some more information you can check out Verizon Wireless comm or sprint comm if you want the spread version same thing there is not a version currently out for AT&T or t-mobile so nothing on the GSM side for exclusive content check me out at Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and if you want to learn more about TechnoBuffalo quite obviously check out TechnoBuffalo comm I will see you guys in the next video bye