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Mobile Broadband Fast Enough?
- Thread starter Grew
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Quote from atticus:
No, 1.5 is wildly unrealistic. I Have the latest 3g modems from Verizon and Sprint. I get 800kb in major metros with Sprint and 500kb with Verizon.
Verizon WILL shut you down if you're using it for your primary connection. I would go with Sprint.
Good luck on achieving speeds >100kb if you're not inside EV-DO range.
verizon according to my plan (unlimited) will only shut you down if you exceed 5gigs of data download a month. iv'e been using my connection as my primary since may 7th (havn't turned on my landline since) and iv'e only downloaded 1.3gigs so far. I doubt he should worry about being shut down for using it as a primary line.
also iv'e done extensive testing of my line speed and i would say average realistic speeds are around 350Kbps. around the speed of dsl. although admittedly i live in the heart of los angeles. my connection to new york is 350Kbps, chicago is 750. it varies. should be plenty fast so long as you dont have 5 web pages open simultaneously.
Quote from ER9:
verizon according to my plan (unlimited) will only shut you down if you exceed 5gigs of data download a month. iv'e been using my connection as my primary since may 7th (havn't turned on my landline since) and iv'e only downloaded 1.3gigs so far. I doubt he should worry about being shut down for using it as a primary line.
also iv'e done extensive testing of my line speed and i would say average realistic speeds are around 350Kbps. around the speed of dsl. although admittedly i live in the heart of los angeles. my connection to new york is 350Kbps, chicago is 750. it varies. should be plenty fast so long as you dont have 5 web pages open simultaneously.
Yeah, your data is what I've experienced [Chi/LA]. Verizon killed my buddy's sub and stated he was serving the signal with a cellular router. The guy has never seen a cell-router. Verizon is at capacity and doesn't want to take the hit on earnings to build out the network. A victim of their own success.
Quote from Grew:
I hear service (HSDPA) is spotty and the same speed as EVDO (even though they claim faster speeds)
From whom? Verizon? HSDPA is faster with less latency. I've clocked HSDPA in Chicago > 2.5 consistently. I don't use HSDPA as it's not served in my area.
Go with Sprint or Cingular. Verizon throttles-down their EV-DO and cans your contract.
Quote from atticus:
From whom? Verizon? HSDPA is faster with less latency. I've clocked HSDPA in Chicago > 2.5 consistently. I don't use HSDPA as it's not served in my area.
Go with Sprint or Cingular. Verizon throttles-down their EV-DO and cans your contract.
I knew that about verizon. But thanks for the info on Cingular. Curious as to what you pay for the Cingular as i looked on the website and I see 79.99/mo
I use the Verizon USB720 as backup and it's nice. Having it as a USB device allows you to use it on any computer as long as you can get to a USB port.
The one problem I have with it is that at times it just randomly shuts itself off and then sometimes turns back on. If not I have to unplug it and plug back in. It's annoying and I've contacted their tech support over and over on this. No luck so far. My guess there's a setting in my computer that is triggering it but yet to find it.
The one problem I have with it is that at times it just randomly shuts itself off and then sometimes turns back on. If not I have to unplug it and plug back in. It's annoying and I've contacted their tech support over and over on this. No luck so far. My guess there's a setting in my computer that is triggering it but yet to find it.