I pay $79 annually to use Anonymizer, a secure OpenVPN (or L2TP/IPSec VPN) that leverages a random VPN server somewhere around the world. Of course, if you don’t want your employer to monitor your person Internet activity, then this isn’t an option. If your employer has a VPN solution set up, that’s an easy way to establish a VPN solution.
This little discovery was downright revolutionary for me. Sure enough, if I establish a VPN using Anonymizer or my company’s VPN solution (Microsoft’s SSTP VPN solution) the connection NEVER, EVER drops. The session NEVER goes dormant and that’s exactly what it sounded like I needed. They establish secure connections and keep the connections alive with occasional traffic. That was what gave me the idea, “Why not just run something that constantly communicates over the connection?” I’ve updated the firmware and that didn’t fix any of the problems.Ī user in the support forums mentioned that his MiFi dies the moment he stops using his stock trading application with generates a lot of traffic. There also appears to be issues with it getting warm and “halting”.
The only way to get the connection working is to turn it off and turn it on again. Most of the same issues I’ve had are documented here:Īpparently, the device seems to go into a ‘sleep mode’ when there’s no traffic over the connection, and there’s no way to turn off the sleep mode. Even though the WiFi connection works, it seems to be completely non-responsive. If I turn the device on and connect to it from my laptop, it will work for a while, then suddenly after some amount of usage, usually after a pause of sorts, I can’t surf the web at all. Put simply, the thing drops its connection to the 4GLTE network – or at least stops working.
It’s usually 4G LTE speeds (8.5Mbps down/6.5Mbps up) but sometimes it drops down to 3G speed, giving 2.0Mbps/1.2Mbps max. I have a business “MiFi” – a mobile hotspot – that provides Internet access anywhere I need it.
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