This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This USB Hotspot does work. However, there are a few caveats that need to mentions before someone decides to purchase it.
First, to get the good out of the way, It does work with Google Fi. Which means it should theoretically work with many of the GSM carriers in the U.S. There are other Chinese brands that will work with T-Mobile, but not Google Fi.
Second. It does have a simple firewall and a pretty nice web UI. If you manage to get it to work. The big issue with accessing the web UI is that if one owns a newer android phone, the phone will not load the web UI unless first you disable your cellular connectivity, and second, you are running an older browser. It probably works on laptops without issue, but in my use case, I was needing the hotspot to connect to an android head unit, and I only had my newer android phone to work with when programming. I never got the web UI to work on the phone. However, I got the web UI to work on the head unit's browser which.
Third. It really is a good plug and play USB hotspot when it recognizes the SIM card. This is a problem as the hotspot uses MiniSIMs instead of the standard microSIMs used by most carriers. This seems to be trivial as one just needs to use an adapter, until one realizes that the SIM slot makes using an adapter not easy. Then the SIM adapters have to be positions slightly away from where it stops in order for the device to read the SIM. This was not a problem on another USB Hotspot I tried. So I know it's a design flaw.
Overall the USB hotspot works for what I wanted. Though it is not perfect, It allows enough speed for music streaming and navigation.
