Ehersman

We meant RJ45, typo being fixed.

It's interesting that you thought it was so small at first. I've been talking to a number of people about the size over the last few months, and the most common reaction is, "I thought it was bigger". For some reason our early photography left the impression that this was the size of a shoe box or car battery. In reality, it's about the size of 3 stacked iPhones.

We've got some pictures with it next to computers and on top, or near, other "stuff". That was the idea we were going for in that top header image on the site anyway.

It would allow for this. We're talking with two different satellite providers about what this would need to do. The biggest problem seems to be that the satellite connections are pretty good standalone systems, but they don't do a good job of making a WiFi station, what would be helpful is a self-powered router to connect to - and this is where the BRCK sits.

We recently ran a test of the BRCK up in the far northern reaches of Kenya, where the closest mobile phone tower was 160km away. The only option for internet was satellite, so we hooked up a BGAN terminal and ran that ethernet line into the BRCK to broadcast the signal as WiFi. (more here: http://www.brck.com/2013/11/brck-eclipse-day-7-home-again/)

This is correct (and thanks for being a backer). We had some issues with the modem supplier and had to redesign the comms board to work with the new modem. This was after going around in circles with the original supplier and losing valuable time. It sucks being small when dealing with some of these large organizations, but we did eventually find a great modem and have been testing it out this month.

I am sorry we had to delay the production, we all so badly wanted to get it out on time...

Good points. We'll rework some of the messaging.

Good point. I'll see what we can do to make that more visible, the features are too hidden right now.

I'm one of the BRCK team and I use the Karma when in the US traveling around. I initially bought it for testing and think it's a really well done device. What you should know about it is that it's only really good in US cities, as it uses WiMax backhaul. It's got decent battery as well. Their social mechanism for getting others to signup and get you free Mb really works (pro tip: Keep it on in the airport).

The BRCK was designed for a different use case. It's designed to allow more connections and to have failovers for poor power and internet connectivity. It also allows you to extend it with both hardware and software of your own making.

It's actually very wide spread, especially in major towns and cities. Network maps are hard to come by, especially up-to-date ones, but you can get a decent idea on a lot of the countries from the GSMA data site here:

https://gsmaintelligence.com/