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USI Wireless Review

Apr 09, 2008 21:18

(Originally for ethel, but I figured others might find it helpful.)

I do like it.

Out and About
My laptop has a really old internal wi-fi modem that has some serious issues connecting to the signal, so I can't really use it *directly* most places. My husband's laptop, OTOH, is newer and has a better modem and has no problems sending and receiving.

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anonymous May 23 2008, 15:14:24 UTC

I've read a number of negative posts about USI Wireless. I live in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood and got their 'buy 1 year-get the second for free' offer with their Ruckus modem. I became a subscriber in February 2008 when the service went live in my neighborhood. My old Qwest DSL used to sit in the rafters of my basement, right next to my Telco demark. I have a window which looks down the alley and can 'see' one of the USI units about a block away. I put my USI pre configured Ruckus unit right on the same shelf, plugged it in and did some slight movements of the unit to get me the best signal. I get between 2-3 Mb/S download and get 700 Kb/s to 1 Mb/S upload all the time. I have had three service outages since I got my service, two lasting about an hour and one lasting 6 hours -- when I called customer support they were understanding and were able to troublshoot the issues but not able to restore my service any faster. When I had my DSL, I don't recall any time I had an outage of any note. When I weigh out the cost vs the performance, I ( ... )

USI wireless anonymous June 18 2008, 00:30:39 UTC

I live in the Field neighborhood, near 48th and Chicago. I ordered the USI wireless service, installed the modem (with a big ugly antenna in my bedroom window) and got nothing. The nearest service node was two blocks away.

Cheap, yes, but lousy product in my opinion. It simply didn't work. And I was never told when ordering that they didn't have enough nodes in my area.

I think this city made a mistake.

It's OK anonymous September 6 2008, 22:54:52 UTC

I live in a house near Kenny -- about 1/2 a block away from one of USI's WAPs. I didn't buy their modem - just use the built-in antenna on my macbook.

Service and performance are pretty good for $20/month.

USI Wireless anonymous February 3 2011, 20:08:03 UTC

Prepaid for a year and bought the wireless antenna only to find out USI thinks they are the internet police. You can forget about file sharing, USI Wireless will slow your traffic to a crawl and send you copyright notices. You can forget about stable connections or advertised speeds as well, because you will get neither. (I live 100 feet away from their node.) Unless you like getting lag stomped, you can forget about gaming too; my 256 Kb DSL was better then this. I am trying to get a refund, but their customer service is almost nonexistent - buyers beware.