I got an Airave

Yeah, your bill will just be about $5 more expensive each month.

 

So come prepared with my Sprint account information....makes sense. Thank you very much for your help! I appreciate it!

 

So you are very happy with it I'm assuming? It seems as if it will be very beneficial to me.

Do you happen to know just out of curiosity, if it is an add on to your existing plan, what kind of plan do you have to have to begin with to add this to it?

 

This is an issue that is highlighted in the Airave manual. If you walk within the range of the Airave's beacon signal, your signal will start to get choppy and more than likely drop.

 

I also got Airave couple of weeks ago. I am having a problem I cannot figure out.

I have a 4 mbps cable modem connection and use Vonage (voice and fax) for home phone. I have Linksys WRT160N router.

After I started using Airave, whenever I get an incoming call, on Vonage or on Sprint phones (1 Centro and 3 Katanas), I cannot hear the calling person but they can hear me. If I am making the call (Vonage or Sprint) we can hear each other without any problem.

This seems to be a VOIP issue. I even setup QOS to high priority for Airave and Vonage phone adapter in my router but that did not solve the problem either.

Anyone else is having similar problem?
Anyone know how to fix it?

 

For what it is worth - I am using the same router and have no problems at all.
My router is set at factory defaults. I do not have Vonage service.

 

Just got my first bill since I added the Airave and (shock) Sprint screwed it up and charged me the $4.99 fee twice.

 

I have one and I called Retentions and they gave me the Airave free and they waved the $4.99 till the end of my contract. All I pay is the $10 for unlimited calling. The only thing I don't like is that when I get home and my phone goes to the Airave I loss all signal for like 30 seconds. It's no big deal normally, but if I'm on the phone already it drops my calls.

 

Thanks, I figured it was something like that. Kind of sucks though

 

Re: I got an Airave--PROBLEMS VOIP

Hi-
I have an airave for a few months already....
as for coverage most of my house gets 5 bars so the product does work well...
Distance of coverage is fair at best..... moved it up into my attic.. and most of the house is covered.. but my home office - which is at one end of the house does drop calls... as the "coverage" is fair to poor at that point... (my house is a good size - not really huge)--
ANYWAY....
Beside my Sprint Cell Phones...
I have (2) voip providers ... ViaTalk and my local cable company Optimum Phone (Cablevision)

MY Viatalk works fine... no conflicts - no problems.. The cable company phone works....Rings & Answers and makes outgoing calls OK...
but... gets disconnected after about 2-3 minutes on a call.
Called and spoke to airave tech support - had to fight to get to a higher level tech / supervisor.
The first tech was reading me a prepared statement and also mentioned SHE had never dealt with a customer with this problem before.
ANYWAY- according to Sprint/Airave support... it's a VOIP problem - there is a conflict with certain VOIP devices - if they use some or all of the same ports as the Airave... you are SOL!
Port numbers for the airave are 53 /500 / 4500 / 52428
Those are assigned by Samsung and according to Sprint - can't be changed.
SO... if you are having problems with VOIP you basically have 2 options...
1. Get rid of your airave
2. Get rid of your voip or switch voip companies to one that doesn't conflict

or.... if anyone out there knows a work-around to change or re-assign the port numbers....
that would be great... because Sprint has NO Idea how to fix this one!

 

I was just wondering if someone had taken an airave, set it up and sent it over to Iraq, would it work there? Since most of the military bases have internet access, I wonder if the airave would work if plugged in there???

 

So there is a GPS in the unit that tells it where it is and uses the particular block they have in that area. Makes sense, I just happened to think about that the other night and had wondered if anyone else had tried it.

 

Is the range of the Airave simular to a wireless router? Just moved back to SoCal, and the signal in my place is still very weak. My room is on the other side of the house where the router is.

 

Yes, the range is similar. I get a slightly better range on the Airave, but not much. One good thing is your phone will work fine with one bar of service from the Airave. Each situation is different. You will just have to try it. The Airave is a great product.

 

That is great to hear! It should work fine as I get one bar now, but my calls will drop due to the signal being -100db+ most of the time.

 

Well I finally got the Airave, and it is working perfectly. No more dropping calls or putting my phone in "Roam Only". It will be nice if/when it gets a EVDO update.

 

Yeah, that's a known issue... is there a fix in the works? Or is Sprint doing nothing about it?

 

How nice of you. Lucky for me my guests would never see it. So they would just think it's a problem with their phone.

 

Re: I got an Airave--PROBLEMS VOIP

I have an Optimum Voice phone line and it works fine with my airave.

 

I need some assistance. I recently purchased a wi-ex booster because of poor signal reception in my home. I could barely get one bar of service. Needless to say I am disappointed with the results of the zboost. I get service but it's sporadic. I was wondering if I purchased the airave and connected it to my sprint broadband card I could get 360 service. Meaning what little reception my booster gets will be amplified again thru airave which will in turn boost signal reception in the booster thus improving all around signal reception. What do you guy's think?