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fiaranch
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join:2007-09-12
Weston, CO
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Re: Hughesnet VS Verizon EV-DO
Doing similar testing myself. About the same distance to the tower.
Since you are 9-10 miles from the tower, you should seriously consider making 3G Store give you a refund for that Wilson Trucker Omni antenna you purchased. It is a good antenna when you have a 'selection' of towers to get a signal from. With just one tower available, get a good quality yagi, and ultra low loss coax to feed it, and you will be much better off. Get it mounted and pointed to that lone tower, and that will help insure stability of your signal under most all conditions.
And you may need to consider adding an amplifier to help push the signal that far.
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bigdawwg
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Newton, TX
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| fiaranch, I live in Southeast Texas. Lots of trees and hills. I am 9 to 10 miles from the tower, and by Verizon's coverage map, I'm 3 miles out of their coverage area. I thought about getting a yagi but, wasn't sure I could get a line of sight on the tower. I still may try one. I am doing really good right now with the Wilson Omni, it gives me almost 2 bars over the signal I get from the built in antenna. I can get speeds of 300/150 with the modem antenna, but I get 800 to 1130 down and 300 to 400 up with the Wilson Omni. I want to try out an amplifier, that will be my next venture. By the way, I decided to keep the service. Its worth it for me. Keep looking people, there is hope out there for real broadband. I was told by the people at 3g store that even with an amplifier I wouldn't get enough signal to pull in broadband, judging from Verizon's coverage maps.
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dbirdman
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join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| said by bigdawwg  :I get 800 to 1130 down and 300 to 400 up with the Wilson Omni. I want to try out an amplifier, that will be my next venture. Unless you regularly see your bars drop and speeds with them, you probably won't see much with an amplifier. To stay compliant, the amps are built to do *nothing* when they are not needed, and yours sounds like not needed.
I have an amp, because I never know whether I will be in solid 1x, solid RevA, or fringe. Works fine with/without the amp in solid RevA, and the amp doesn't improve things at all when there isn't a RevA tower for 50 miles around, but when there is a fringe RevA tower, I get it with the amp.
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savillehill
join:2002-01-16
Lexington, VA
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said by bigdawwg :Lots of trees and hills. I am 9 to 10 miles from the tower, and by Verizon's coverage map, I'm 3 miles out of their coverage area. I'm also out of Verizon's coverage map and in the middle of a forest of trees... Verizon's rep convinced me to try wireless with no risk (True!). I've been running Broadband Access (Rev-A) with a USB720 modem sitting on top of the desktop for over two months. Total cost about 25 bucks to get on line and I haven't looked back
This is a typical report... I'm happy to have closed my Earthlink/Hughes connection. Terrible performance for the past year (after nearly seven years with Earthlink). Prior to cancellation we had twelve straight days of no performace at all (thanks to an unrequested transponder switch)... the old Hughes DW4000 hardware was, and still is, perfectly fine.
Good luck with your wireless.
Ron
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