Nytt modem... (Sida 1 av 3)

Det finns många tillverkare av CDMA 450 utrustning inkl routrar. Svårigheten vore att få Net1att lägga in identiteten.

jag får oseriös reklam via epost från net1/säljare av net1's tjänster/produkt.
epostadressen är en spam fälla för dom bolag som köper oseriösa epostlistor att skicka spam till.
denna spam fälla har varigt i drift sedan tidigt 90tal, och jag använder den till att verifiera epost filter.
och net1 är helt filtrerat :-)

Hej Discover.
Återkom med din bedömning och erfarenheter av M-90.
Så här långt måste jag hålla med andra om att alla Net-1 modem som fungerar och kan ge fungerande anslutningar är de stora.
Har haft Net-1 som USB modem vilket är något jag inte tänker göra om.
D-40 var ju även det en stor miss.

Vad gäller tillgången på lite rejälare don ("proffsmodem") är precis som jonasolof säger inte avsaknaden av utrustning på marknaden det stora problemet utan Net1:s bristande utbud i lite mer kvalificerade klasser. Även om proffsanvändare som regel prioriterar stabilitet (helst inga behov av modemomstrarter) före hastighet är det anmärkningsvärt att man i sin presentation av partnerprodukter på hemsidan inte har ett enda rev. B-modem.

Om någon har behov av tåligare modem:

http://www.net1.se/foretag/hardvara.aspx

H820 EV ser väldigt intressant ut. OBS dock att Net1:s webnisse har förväxlat länkarna till de båda modemen. Möjligheten till fall over mellan CDMA och 3G i Conels UCR11 är ett annat alternativ om uppkopplingen är kritisk. Skall försöka få fram lite mer tekniska dato om fr.a den förstnämnda. När bindningstiden för mina nuvarande abb och R-90:or löper ut är det frestande att skaffa en av de här. I förhållande till vad jag nu kan se på det ganska magra databladet tycker jag dessutom priserna är riktigt rimliga

Same for Privat Alltid, data allowance also seems to have gone down from 30 GB to 20 GB.
Notice how the price is still the same at 299 kr/mån.
Is this only for new customers? I signed up for 30 GB/mån, nothing less. And I most certainly did not sign up for a steady decline of the service while having to pay a lot more in the process. In this scenario, if you wanted to top up to your usual 30 GB, you'd have to pay 199 kr extra. That's quite a price rise.

Especially not fair to people who have no other choice than Net1 out in the woods.

Must be a belated, bad taste April Fool's Day joke.

@ Vox medievalis: When you say when it is time to prolong my current agreement, do you mean next month when the dataförbrükning is set at 0 again?

I still can't quite believe it, how can Net1 go backwards like this? They will end up offering subscriptions like satellite internet -> way too expensive for a very small data allowance that doesn't really allow you to do much at all (6 GB/month for 50 euro/month for an internet connection that barely works is not nice, I speak from from experience). One of the main reasons I was glad to be able to switch to Net1 at the time.

And there's me thinking things would only get better at Net1.

I have an Alltid subscription, utan bindningstid.
They wouldn't give me a two-year bindningstid at the time, because according to Net1 I hadn't lived long enough in Sweden then. So I don't know where that leaves me.

Jonas, I think it is rather lame to say it is part of a general trend and implying that this is therefore somehow "normal". Would you accept a drop in your salary or pension of a third without questioning anything? I know I don't get pay rises like that. For some of us this makes the difference between managing and struggling.
Do you realise what Net1 have just done? They are taking a third of our data allowance off!! And as if that isn't bad enough, they are still charging the full price for this severely capped service. Where will this end? Pay ever more for a steadily decreasing service, with ultimately next to no standard data allowance left, unless you fork out for the top-ups?
What it boils down to, is that Net1 have effected a price rise of approx.  a third by delivering 20 GB instead of 30 GB a month for the same price as the old subscription, with the "option" of topping up to 30 GB for 199 kr. That's a total price of 498 kr. instead of 299 kr. Altogether, this is a price rise of around 66%. And that's even without a phone subscription.
Some of us actually rely on internet for our work, and to see the only service available being capped like this, while being expected to pay a whole lot more, is simply outrageous. Just because we live out in the sticks and have no other choice regarding internet, doesn't mean we have to put up with any old service. The vast majority of Net1's customers can't switch to another provider, so in effect, Net1 can do what it likes.

In answer to what you say about economic viability: if 30 GB a month data allowance is not economically sustainable on the long term, then Net 1 should have either 1) offered a limited amount of time of 30 GB a month and clearly notified the customer of this, or 2) should never have offered the customer 30 GB a month in the first place.
By the way, 30 GB a month isn't mega much: I've come across plenty of people who don't use internet excessively and do reach this limit, as I myself do.
You don't mean to tell me Net1 didn't know this would happen. And even in the highly unlikely event they really didn't foresee this, they should have adjusted the price to reflect the new, lower data allowance, i.e. adjust to this new reality as well. The fact that they haven't and have actually upped the price so much in the process, to me shows that they are abusing the situation. Reasonable price rises over time are to be expected, but this is simply ridiculous. I would never have objected to a 50-kr. increase per month for example, if that meant I could keep the 30 GB. But to have 10 GB taken away like this, which can only be regained by paying 199 kr. extra each month, is beyond the pale.

Something else I don't find very customer-friendly: no one at Net1 has so far bothered to notify the existing customers of this happening. I found out myself, purely by accident, by browsing a forum.

I'm going to start a new thread about this, because I think people ought to know.

I do agree with your opinion. This is not fair but in the background there i a serious fact. With the very rapid development for demand of capacity in radio networks - i.e streaming media - this lowered limit might be the only technical solution. Lack of frequencies will in future force most of us to diminish our capacity demands or migrate to fixed lines. 30 or 50 Gb per month is neglectible in an optical network but (too) much in a low frequency radio network with large cells like Net1. The high-capacity future is not wireless - unfortunately !

Long term, the predecessor of Net1 announced plans to move to LTE. LTE is a feasible concept on 450 MHz, it's already planned for Brezil. It would allow for higher throuputs but even doubling the capacity would probably not help in a situation where there is such a heavy push towards higher average usage as is presently seen. I know from insiders that operators have come to the conclusion that existing business models are untenable. There used to be a situation where average consumption was loww and a few free riders could download massive amounts of data because price levels where low, based on that average consumption. Those days of low average consumption are gone.

Furthermore, operators are aware that the future is in fiber but that this takes time. I have a friend who owns a remote farm near the tip of Värmlandsnäs. He hardly had GPRS. Now he has 100 mbit fiber with substantial EU subsidies via Säffle kommun.

Operators have tried to lure a great many users on to mobile broadband in order to earn money to expand mobile networks before fiber reaches out. However, bandwidth demand had risen faster than expected. Subscription fees no longer cover expansion costs (the say) which means that operators can not both expand network coverage and increase capacity in already existing parts of the network.

There is a long term governement policy to provide the population with  fast broad band access. It is based on fiber mainly. Fiber gets EU subsidies which mobile broadband does not. Expensive block auctions also wheigh on the budgets.  On the other hand, there has been talk of cartels. There was an article recently in Affärsvärlden on this or possibly Veckans affärer, although I haven't seen it.

Some things have become cheaper, such as phone calls. When I moved to Belgium in 1990 I spent 100 000 SEK a year on (international) phone calls. Now maybe 12 000. In 1986 a computer could easily cost 40 000 SEK and my first handheld mobile Nokia Cityman cost more than 30 000 SEK incl VAT in 1987 (nominal non inflation adjusted prices). So if one brings in the steadily lowered proces for hardware, the present increases  in subacription costs aren't that remarkable.