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what's up everyone john retton's you're from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing of one of the first Verizon Wireless LTE 4G modems this is e pantech uml 290 to go ahead and dig in I'm really excited to see if we get the speeds that we're supposed to so a real quick overview about the f/4g services Verizon is offering it's gonna be available in 38 metropolitan cities and 60 airports from a cost standpoint for 50 bucks you're gonna get five gigs of data and that is up and down you're gonna get 10 gigs of data for $80 and if you go over it's $10 per gig there's gonna be no strata link you can go as much as you want I'll be where you have to pay that $10 over its charge so 4G let's talk about speeds you're going to get 5 to 12 megabits per second down and 2 to 5 megabits per second up and if you're wondering how fast that is go to speedtest.net on your current home connection and run a quick test and see how fast your network is gonna be cuz chances are your home network it's probably gonna fall on the same speeds that does Verizon Wireless 4G modem is supposed to get and these are real-world speeds I've seen tests of us getting upwards of 20 megabits per second down so enough of the geek talk let's go ahead and dig in there are two modems that are available at launch one is the pantech uml 290 that's got a few tricks up its sleeve and the other I believe is the LG v out 600 let's go ahead and open this up you can get these budgeting both modems available off-contract so you don't have to pay and you serve early termination fee you don't have to worry about signing a two-year deal for 249 dollars each otherwise if you want to sign a contract they're going to be 99 dollars each so here's a Verizon Wireless access manager stuff you are going to only be able to use this lease for right now on PCs there's not Mac support so I'll be trying parallels with my MacBook Air and see if this works so consumer information tips and tricks and shortcuts we're set up to the side we've got some sort of cable I'm not sure what this is I imagine probably since our USB extension cable or a dock or some sort it looks like it is a USB extension cable so we'll take a look at why this might be important in just a minute here is the modem itself stop software installation required all right so this modem is not what you would call thin but it does have some sort of cool features up its sleeve so you can go ahead and rotate the cover here left to right to reveal there's a little USB port you can go ahead and plug in this is not going to take up two USB ports worth of space hopefully because this port is quite small the LG that's a little bit fatter that's going to take up least amount of room so you can turn this back and you can push that in and in theory be able to use your 4G speeds this does have a micro SD card slot I believe for some expanded storage or that might just be the SIM card slot which is probably a bit more realistic so yeah that is just assume card slot let me correct myself that does not have a microSD expansion card slot you're probably wondering why this has a sim card slot never seen in real sim cards on and the other Verizon Wireless devices in the past well it's because the 4G technology is using is called LTE which is actually a GSM based technology which uses SIM cards so to go ahead and take a look at this thing so in case you are at a premium for USB ports you don't have room to plug this in you can use this plug it into your USB port this guy is going to plug in right into the end of it so keep your so when the computers it has ports next to each other and you're not gonna be able to access whatever you need go and plug this in and this little clip here actually you can put that right on top of your laptop and user to use this antenna to get a bit better reception so push it down there's off your computer and you are off so as by no means a small looking device certainly a little bit larger but you sort of expect that with the first generation of 4G modems so let's take a look at that SIM card slot because it is indeed going to need a SIM card which is kind of weird to see on a Verizon device so go ahead and push that out usually in the past when we've seen SIM cards it's for Verizon's global phones usually it's co-branded with Verizon but this one is just Verizon 4G interestingly enough to when they set up the SIM card you go to the store they are going to set up a phone number with it even though LTE right now is not supporting voice at least Verizon is not supporting it let's go ahead and pop in the SIM card on the next video I'll show you what the setup process was like and more importantly I will show you these speeds go ahead and push that right in and the SIM card is installed so I'm gonna go ahead and get this guy set up and come back another video and show you what this means are