Verizon Wireless 4G LTE USB Modem 551L

This has worked well for me when I travel. It gets hot though so try and keep it cool. It wont work well when its hot.

There was no cd for the program and no sim card with it al,so to me it is a piece of junk When I buy something,I expect to more or less to plug and play,and yes I am a Verizon customer and when I got my old USB727 and had it for years and is a 3G and had absolutely no problems what so ever and did not have to contact Verizon to get connected what so ever.To say the least i am disgusted!

Made my own version of a mifi hotspot with this and a little portable WAP from TPLink. What is nice about the combo, over something like a netgear jetpack or similar battery operated product, is that not having a battery mean it can operate for months on end with no user attention needed. Just threw a jetpack SIM card in there, hooked it up to PC first to make sure it worked and was connected, then attached it to the miniWAP and logged into that to make sure it recognized the USB modem, and it was up and running. Worked much better in terms of reception than jetpack too.

It took a lot of wrestling to get the micro-sim from Verizon to get it to plug into this card which uses nano-sim. (Mostly spent that time getting the micro sim out after accidentally installing it without an adaptor tray.)But after that, Linux just detected the modem as a network device and it connected just fine. (Maybe you have to find the right APN by googling, but top results basically had the answer in bold letters)The only problem I have is that it’s about one fifth the speed of the performance of an iPad using the same sim. So instead of 50 Mbps, I’d get 10 Mbps. This used to be really fast but now it’s noticeably slow. Hard to remember the last time when pieces of a webpage gradually rendered over several seconds… until I saw it again using this modem.Definitely works very easily, but performance is very very slow compared to what’s normal in 2021.

We have an older air card that is not supported with our new Chromebook and so after calling Verizon, we were told that since we were under contract, we could not upgrade our old air card for another year. We could however purchase this model and then call them back to set up getting a new SIM card and also to transfer service to the new air card, blah, blah, blah. SO, I ordered this model and not only did it arrive much sooner than expected, but all I did was pop the SIM card out of the old air card and put it in the this new model and then connect to the Chromebook and vuala, worked perfectly!