@jaredwolff, a strategy that the community helped develop was pulling up the cellular connection and not executing the Particle.connect() function. It appears that the Particle.connect() is where a lot of the 15-25 seconds is spent. This strategy inherently means that the device does not check in with the Particle.io cloud, but there was talk of developing a flag system that would allow the system to do one cloud check-in per day to check to see if the user is trying to grab it for an update, etc.