Thanks to all who replied, seems like the more recent experiences people have had are better. One of our vendors made a very generous offer to let me have a card and do 30 days of testing before purchasing which is too good to pass up so we will be giving it a try :)
thanks chris On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Rick Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Josh, > > We use both the VZ and AT&T version of this card and have experienced the > throttled situation with a couple of our AT&T sites. This has always turned > out to be a configuration on AT&T's end where they are automatically > throttling us to 3G speeds after so many GB have been downloaded. We have > contracted services that is supposed to remove that limitation but it does > not always get configured properly during provisioning, anytime we have run > into this the problem is resolved quite quickly. > > Other than that our experiences with these cards have been very good, we > have close to 100 in the field used for the most part as backup to > terrestrial connectivity - with more coming. We also have a double handful > of sites using 4G as their primary data path. Far and away the bulk of our > sites are on the VZ network. > > -----Original Message----- > From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Joshua Riesenweber > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:20 AM > To: chris; cisco-nsp@pu ck.nether.net > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] VZW 4G LTE Interface Card > > Hi Chris, > I have a number of the EHWIC-4G-LTE-G models running, mostly as redundant > connections. > I found them to be extremely reliable in terms of no lockups and > reconnecting without issue, but after running for a while they seem to > slow. For example, after a few days of running the speed drops about > 50%.You restart the interface and it's back up to full speed for a few days > again. > *Disclaimer, I haven't actually done any investigation or raised any TAC > cases so it may be something easily fixed. As I use the links for > failover/redundancy in an emergency, this isn't much of an issue for me. > > Cheers,Josh > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:35:00 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [c-nsp] VZW 4G LTE Interface Card > > > > Hello, > > > > Anyone have any experience with the EHWIC-4G-LTE-V card for VZW 4G? > > > > We have a 4G as a backup WAN for a small site and we currently have a > > cradlepoint bridging the cellular over to a ethernet port and have > > that connected to our router. The cradlepoint seems to flake out > > occasionally or completely lock up requiring a hard reset and I was > > looking at getting this EHWIC thinking it would be more reliable and > > also if we needed to login to the router we might be able to see more > > technical info about the radio's status etc. > > > > Mainly I am just looking for feedback from someone who has implemented > > it, how difficult it was to build the configuration, how reliable, if > > there were any gotcha's etc. > > > > TIA, > > chris > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
