NETGEAR MBR 1210 Turbo Hub

In February 2012, we were switched to the Bell Turbo Hub, since Bell portable was being discontinued in our area. We have been very unhappy with the service. There are many, many dropped connections, especially from 2 pm to 10 pm. Weekends are equally erratic. The service is extremely slow (generally less than .5 kbps down) and many pages time out. Despite regular calls to Bell and getting a variety of explanations as to the problems, the service has not improved. I would not recommend this internet service.

Recently moved from city with high speed cable to rural with turbo hub. Need it for work so had external antenae installed on the roof. Performance has been spotty and inconsistent, ranging from really bad (0.2 Mbps) to tolerable (2 Mbps). Signal light is green (shows about -91 db in status most of the time). Complaining to bell consistently (call them every day you get bad performance and complain that you're paying for high speed) resulted in some improvements. One phone tech guy said there were a lot of problem reports in my area. Eventually they start blaming it on the hub and I just had the hub replaced. Flakey performance seems much the same.

Basically I believe their towers are not designed to handle all the cell + network traffic simultaneously. When cell phones are active in your area your performance suffers since voice traffic probably takes priority over data. Tracert often shows 0.5 to 5 second delays in their tower servers (first few hops).

They really oversold this technology and are gouging us by claiming it's high-speed always.

Had Explornet,CRAP. Have the Bell MBR1210 Turbo Hub,Awesome. Speed test 7.5 Mps (download), 1.2 Mps (upload) and this is rural with clear line a site to tower. Only downfall when it snows signal drops. Very happy with this product.

I purchase the Bell Turbo Hub in May 2011 as we needed internet connection for our mew cottage in Dunnville. I'd read a few reviews and they were not very favorable, but needed internet connection. Satellite was too slow. Well from the get-go the connection was horrible. could not connect to pages half the time there and this was all weekend usage. I contacted bell and they advised me that my cottage was 14KM away from the nearest tower which is really way too far. I asked about the outdoor antenna and was advised it might help but no guarantees. I shelled out another $200 for this antenna, there were maybe a 5% improvement but not enough to make a difference. I've brought back the external antenna but since I purchased the hub, I was stuck with it. I'm now looking for new alternatives.