Faq. & info thread for novatel mifi throttle fix

[rich hathaway]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS THREAD FOR NOVATEL MIFI DEVICES THROTTLE FIX.

Q.Is this permanent?

A.There is no way to say its permanent,anyone who makes a de-throttle tool or fix and says that would be lying.
However I can say this,while I have only recently been fooling with mifi's,through research & development I can see exactly how they throttle these novatel devices and have it completely disabled.


Q.Does that mean they can never be throttled again?

A.No they can use a switch based throttle. If they do, that will not be stoppable by any fix.Right now throttle is done from the device.

Q.Can you remotely fix throttle for me

A.No right now it is mail in service only,at some point I will probably compile a custom firm to address all these issues

Q.Has this been tested?

A.Yes,Elisa and myself have been maxing out several devices 24/7 since its conception.

Q.Has any re-throttling occurred?

A.No not a single device has been re-throttled,we have ran 30-40 gig on these devices non stop.

Q.do I need to get a new profile to do this?

A.Usually not but in some cases when we do not have the correct existing profile info you will.

Q.What novatel devices can you de-throttle?

A.This will work on all novatel devices,however,we are only offering 2200 at this time,4510L and the sprint variant(4620L) we will start offering in the next week as well as others.


EDIT:IF YOU HAVE YOUR DEVICE'S THROTTLE FIXED,DO NOT USE A DUU OR USE DFS TO RELOAD THE FIRMWARE,THIS WILL REMOVE THE REPAIR AND YOUR DEVICE WILL BE RE-THROTTLED.
HOWEVER LOADING A DIFFERENT PROFILE WILL NOT HURT THE REPAIR IF DONE CORRECTLY.


Please feel free to ask any "NOVATEL" throttle question here,this is the place for them.

[rich hathaway]

Reserved for future use

[mifi2200]

Did any of the de-throttle mifi 2200 get shutdown from the V company, since they can't control it? would the de-throttle device be identified from V or its also debrand?

[rich hathaway]

none have been shutdown.it can be de-branded but none are yet except a few of mine,but it doesn't matter if they are branded or not when they send there protocols to those devices it is ignored by the device now.
so really they think it is throttled when its not
chock one up for the hackers and zero for big red

if your interested here is a pic of the debranded 2200 UI

[tman40]

so will shutting down the accounts be their next weapon

[rich hathaway]

anything is possible but look at the big picture
Verizon Wireless: 115.780 million customers
Wireless Phone Customers: 115.780 Million, including over 100 Million customers and more than 10 Million other connections

so out of 116 million customers there are only a fraction of a single percent of mifis on accounts like yours.

so ask yourself this,do they even care? the answer is obviously yes,but care enough to spend probably tens of millions changing a system to thwart accounts like yours that cost them squat all to try and focus there resources on you and me neglecting there bread and butter,the high end peeps paying more than a hundo per line.

the answer to all that is - they will continue to focus on staying ahead of at&t and sprint.they know eventually 4g will take the place of fallback (which is 3g now) and when that happens this problem will fix itself without them having to revamp an old system and spend some of there 10 billion in surplus.

also we have not seen a single account get kicked since we implemented this throttle tool,hope it continues like that it is going well so far.