Yes, that's the one I'm planning to order as well. Huawei seems better than D-Link. It's simple plug-and-play; insert the sim as usual; plug into the computer and drivers are auto loaded. I'm a layman in these matters too
Anyway, just doing some more research whether to stick with Reliance or try out Airtel.
The reason for choosing an open dongle over the one from Reliance is that this one is unlocked. So if you have data plans from other providers (like Idea, Airtel, Vodafone) then you can slip in those cards and your internet will work as usual. Plus, it's cheap and Reliance itself uses ZTE for its dongle which is comparable to Huawei.
Furthermore, even Reliance 4G in the current form is basically HSPA or 3G. Full-fledged 4G operations have to commence from the side of Rel Jio. For that to happen, the existing lot of CDMA users who haven't yet migrated, have to be done so... And all the migrations happening right now are actually into GSM rather than 4G.
Once the GSM base picks up, I reckon they'll go for "real 4G". I somehow feel that all this is to simply have enough users in the GSM spectrum so that Jio/Rcom can test out 4G before a proper launch.
Secondly, I want to highlight one thing.
For those with an existing Reliance connection who are upgrading to 4G, make sure that the new sim you get has the Pkg date as
May 2016 (05/2016) and not
April 2016 (04/2016)
Some of the earlier sim cards issued from the April batch didn't have data enabled and we were required to take them back to the gallery to get the sim "patched" (i.e., your card would be inserted into a reader and only then would data services work).
There is no such problem with the sim cards from the May batch. Data works out of the box with them. So make sure you get the latest possible 4G sim.
Also, once you upgrade to 4G, you're supposed to get 10GB free data usage with a validity of 30 days.
