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linben Aug 8, 2019 3:49 pm


Originally Posted by cboy (Post 31230511)
I love my PokeFi.

I've now used it in


Japan-Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka
Hong Kong
South Korea-Seoul
France-Paris
Belgium-Brussels and Bruges
Netherlands-Amsterdam
Germany-Berlin
Greece-Athens
Singapore
Canada-Vancouver, Toronto
England-London
Spain-Madrid, Barcelona
Taiwan, Taipei
Indonesia, Bali


I just bought a second one as a gift for a relative who has been borrowing mine :)

My pokefi also works well in the following locations as well:

US - Los Angeles
Germany - Munich
Australia - Cairns, Melbourne & Sydney

milfweed20 Aug 24, 2019 7:13 pm

Anyone was able to recently buy a Pokefi in a Cathay flight? I’m flying LHR-HKG F.

RF9 Jan 16, 2020 11:37 pm

I picked up a pokefi on a Cathay Pacific flight in Dec 2019 and my coworker also got one on our CX flight just before that. The planes usually carry 1 in stock. Unfortunately I got it on my return trip home and haven't used it overseas yet.
The flight attendant said "I have this one, and it's pretty good."
My coworker just came back from Vietnam and said it worked on Vietnamobile. It doesn't use Viettel which is the one with the most coverage there but Vietnamobile has pretty good coverage unless you go out to the boonies.
He also said that sometimes it can take up to 10 minutes to get connected, but once connected it worked pretty reliably.
He also said it's not fast, but it work and he was always able to use date from his phone for getting grab rideshares, messaging, web, etc.

My next trips will be China and Vietnam and I look forward to trying it out.
The appeal is that the data is cheap and doesn't expire. I don't like paying for day passes. Their neither cost effective for casual use and have "fair use" caps that make them not very useful for real work. Paying for 5GB of data for a week for example is a lot better for me if it's affordable.

linben Jan 29, 2020 10:48 am


Originally Posted by linben (Post 31395236)
My pokefi also works well in the following locations as well:

US - Los Angeles
Germany - Munich
Australia - Cairns, Melbourne & Sydney

Thailand

Speedy999 Mar 3, 2020 10:11 pm


Originally Posted by cboy (Post 31230511)
I love my PokeFi.

I've now used it in


Japan - Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Hokkaido
Hong Kong, Macau
South Korea - Seoul
France - Paris
Belgium - Brussels and Bruges
Netherlands - Amsterdam
Germany - Berlin
Greece - Athens
Singapore
Canada - Vancouver, Toronto
England - London
Spain - Madrid, Barcelona, Toledo, Segovia, Girona
Taiwan - Taipei
Indonesia - Bali
New Zealand - Auckland, Waikato, Rotoura

I just bought a second one as a gift for a relative who has been borrowing mine :)


Wondering what the performance was like in Canada. I’m getting 0.05 Mbps connected to the Bell network. Compare to my cellular plan on the same network and location which is 45 Mbps. The speed is terrible, barely enough for text message. Haven’t seen this speed in 20 years.

prmetime Mar 4, 2020 9:37 am


Originally Posted by Speedy999 (Post 32139353)
Wondering what the performance was like in Canada. I’m getting 0.05 Mbps connected to the Bell network. Compare to my cellular plan on the same network and location which is 45 Mbps. The speed is terrible, barely enough for text message. Haven’t seen this speed in 20 years.

Given the vast size of Canada, you might want to add a specific location to your DP.

Speedy999 Mar 4, 2020 12:13 pm


Originally Posted by prmetime (Post 32141051)
Given the vast size of Canada, you might want to add a specific location to your DP.

I was in Victoria but was interested in cboy’s experience in Vancouver and Toronto.

Chris Blunt Sep 14, 2024 9:04 am

I purchased a Pokefi device way back in 2017, and for the most part I found it excellent for many years. I used to use it all over SE Asia, the US and Europe and it was generally very reliable, connecting to a local network within a few minutes.

However, I've recently been using it on a trip and it's let me down quite badly. Over the last few weeks I've been using it in Albania, Morocco, Spain, and now in Gibraltar. While I have been able to get a usable (green) connection for a brief period in all of those places, it often turns red again and stays that way for hours.

I'm wondering if the advent of all these e-SIM companies such as Airalo have been hitting Pokefi's business and we might be seeing the demise of the company soon.


jow Feb 4, 2025 10:41 am

I have a Pokefi device that I have used in several countries for the past 2 1/2 years, but now it shows a solid red light almost as soon as I turn it on and it stays that way. I am wondering whether that means there is a hardware failure or something else.


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