KR2 Mobile Router

by Kyocera

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• ASIN: B0015VVXOK
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,173 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 17, 2005

Product Description

Make your wireless network completely mobile with the Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router. With its portability, flexibility, and easy setup, creating your own hotspot - anywhere - has never been easier.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Times better than the KR-1, March 25, 2008

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Pacific Trail Books - See all my reviews

This review is from: KR2 Mobile Router (Electronics)

Received the KR-2 today (ordered same day it went up for sale). I have been using a Kyocera KR-1 for two years. The performance of the KR-1 was poor (at best). The Wi-Fi signal was very weak, and both the EV-DO and Wi-Fi connections would come and go as the KR-1 saw fit. I am not sure if it was caused by the KR-1 or was simply a defective EV-DO card, but my first EV-DO card got smoked and had to be replaced. I have been waiting for the KR-2 to become available since it was announced last fall.

Set up is extremely simple: open box, insert your EV-DO card, apply power. The first thing I noticed is that the KR-2 is ready for use in seconds, versus 1-2 minutes for the KR-1. I followed the directions once I had internet access (browse to http://192.168.0.1) and enter admin password. From there, it is easy to set up Wi-Fi security level and internet access password (if desired).

That's it. Done. If you have a Sprint EV-DO card (PC Card, USB, or Express card), this is the way to go. The service is cheaper than Comcast broadband and you can take it with you where ever.

UPDATE: May 27, 2009. Been using the KR-2 for about 14 months. The wi-fi feature has grown un-reliable (same as happened to my KR-1). Am pretty much only able to use the KR-2 by running a ethernet jumper between it and my notebook computer.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not supported by manufacturer, June 15, 2009

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B. Stenman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KR2 Mobile Router (Electronics)

I have used the Kyocera KR2 for 10 months with both Sierra 595 PCMCIA and Pantech UM175 EV-DO modems, both of which are on the supported modems listing of the manufacturer. Both will work fine and provide Broadband Rev A connections and high speed when directly inserted in the computer but when used in the Kyocera KR2 there are periods when the connection will downgrade to National Access speeds which are 1/10 to 1/4 as fast. Re-inserting the modems in the laptops shows connection speeds are again fast but this is not a viable solution if using the Kyocera router to share the internet connection with multiple computers.

Kyocera announced months ago that it was discontinuing this router and Kyocera provided its last firmware update in September of 2008 which makes this an unsupported piece of equipment for even those modems it is supposed to support. The KR2 appears to be a Cradlepoint router that Kyocera re-branded and the Cradlepoint devices are still supported by the manufacturer. I will be replacing my KR2 with a Cradlepoint MBR1100 router in the very near future.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Expensive, but still a great product, June 28, 2008

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R. Scarberry "Adam" (Ona, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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Update - 9/25/2010

Since Verizon acquired Alltel a while back, the connection no longer seems to drop after hours of inactivity. Still works great. A firmware upgrade fixed the router login issue. I should have also mentioned that I am using an express card and not a USB card.
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I bought this after buying an evdo card from Alltel. The card was mainly used in my macbook pro, but I wanted to be able to share the Internet with two other computers in the house. Since the only form of Internet where I live it dial-up, I had to give this a try.

Using true WiFi from the router works great. The speeds are more reliable than using the evdo card directly connected to my mac and the other two PCs in the house work great (one wireless and the other wired). This thing has a ton of features compared to an old Linksys 802.11b router I had.

My only problems so far is that when there has been no Internet usage for a few hours, the router doesn't want to auto connect like it should. I usually have to reset it or simply remove the evdo card and insert it again. The other minor issue is that I can't seem to login to the router with Firefox 3 (but really, not a big deal).

Overall, while it is expensive, it's been worth it for me to get rid of dial-up!