Maggs
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join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY | $40 a month for 455MB
That's a total ripoff. Wireless data is useless with the insane latency.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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1 edit | said by Maggs  :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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AVonGauss
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join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
1 edit | said by TKJunkMail :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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powerspec88
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join:2007-03-11
Harrisonville, MO
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said by Maggs :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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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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1 edit | said by powerspec88 : 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:
Verizon Wireless:
»/archive/myvzw···cid=&p=1
Sprint Wireless:
»/archive?cid=265
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nnaarrnn
join:2004-09-30
Nitro, WV | reply to AVonGauss
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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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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Name "Plenty" of applications. |
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k1ll3rdr4g0n
join:2005-03-19
Homer Glen, IL
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said by powerspec88 :said by Maggs :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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Maggs
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join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY
1 edit | reply to Maggs
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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powerspec88
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join:2007-03-11
Harrisonville, MO | reply to k1ll3rdr4g0n
I go over 5GB monthly. I normaly use 40-50GB of data every month and Sprint has yet to say anything to me. |
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