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Maggs
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$40 a month for 455MB

That's a total ripoff. Wireless data is useless with the insane latency.
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Re: $40 a month for 455MB

said by Maggs See Profile :

That's a total ripoff. Wireless data is useless with the insane latency.
The caps are generally 5 GB/mo and not 455 MB/mo. The 455 is the expected monthly average.

And unless you are gaming, the latency is irrelevant and has been improving with the 3G rollouts.
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

And unless you are gaming, the latency is irrelevant and has been improving with the 3G rollouts.
Umm, no its not. There are plenty of everyday applications which can be sensitive to latency especially once it goes past about 120ms.
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Re: $40 a month for 455MB

my sprint EVDO rev A card is the only way I can game at home. It's latency is less than my Cable most of the time.

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said by Maggs See Profile :

That's a total ripoff. Wireless data is useless with the insane latency.
Hmm, have you even used EV-DO or 3G? I game and use VoIP just fine on my Sprint EV-DO connection. Ping times as low as ~60ms to the first hop and ~80-90ms to google. Thats not bad at all, and not far behind DSL that is not useing FAST PATH. And on top of that, download speeds of ~2.5Mbps most of the day.

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And on top of that, download speeds of ~2.5Mbps most of the day.
BBR's speedtest database shows good transfer speeds. The 3G EVDO numbers would be clustered at the top:

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said by powerspec88 See Profile :

said by Maggs See Profile :

That's a total ripoff. Wireless data is useless with the insane latency.
Hmm, have you even used EV-DO or 3G? I game and use VoIP just fine on my Sprint EV-DO connection. Ping times as low as ~60ms to the first hop and ~80-90ms to google. Thats not bad at all, and not far behind DSL that is not useing FAST PATH. And on top of that, download speeds of ~2.5Mbps most of the day.
But can't you only use 5GB of bandwidth before you start to get hit with insane overcharges?

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Re: $40 a month for 455MB

I go over 5GB monthly. I normaly use 40-50GB of data every month and Sprint has yet to say anything to me.

Maggs
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5GB is too low, that's 166.67MB a day for a 30 day month. $40 plus 21% tax for wireless service brings the MRC to $48.40 a month approx.
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