Our recent cross-country testing suggests that there’s no real performance benefit from using it, but if you’re tempted nonetheless, the Telstra Ultimate Wi-Fi Hotspot goes on sale through Telstra stores and on its site today.
The Ultimate became available to business customers back in June, but is now on offer through Telstra’s consumer retail channels. You’ll pay $299 for an outright purchase, or $49 if you sign up to one of Telstra’s 24-month contracts. You can compare some of the other available options in our Planhacker guide to prepaid wi-fi hotspots.
Senectus
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:08 PMShorter battery life than the elite, plus early reviews say it gets quite hot when being used…
Angus Kidman
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:18 PMIt definitely does run very hot — but so does the Elite.
Matt
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 6:36 PMDifferent vendors too, Elite was done by Sierra this is ZTE. I’m not a fan of ZTE hardware personally.
David
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 8:52 PMThis is the Sierra 753S. http://goo.gl/IKF3q
It is not by ZTE.
Matt
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 8:53 AMmy mistake, must have been the other way round, which suprises me as Sierra usually have pretty solid hardware.
Tony
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 10:45 PMLove the site Angus. Been running an Elite for a couple of months now. It maybe a newer version or different make, but I wouldn’t say it runs hot. Leave it on all day and it’s warm to touch but not painfully so. Performance is great otherwise
Richard Mugridge
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:29 PMI have a Turbo 21 (from Sierra) which constantly drops out and is hard to reconnect. (And runs very hot). Any dropping out problems with the Ultimate? What about out of city coverage?