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NiceGuyNY21
join:2000-10-15
Buffalo, NY | Re: That's great and all... But Buffalo (Area) And Rochester (Area) Do with under half a million combined  | |
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| Semi751
join:2006-01-03
Waddy, KY
| Is El Paso even marked for future coverage?
I will be really curious to see what the average user is getting for latency on ReV A but the equipment is not available yet even though San Diego is up and running ReV A. I assume the new usb modems and express cards will have to start showing up soon. | |
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
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join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs: | Omaha has it. | |
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| desreversti
join:2002-09-03
San Antonio, TX
| said by MarkyD  :In other news, El Paso, Texas, a city of almost a million people, still does not have the first revision of EVDO. GO SPRINT!  Do you know if that was an affilliate area? I am aware that affilliate areas got screwed when it came to Ev-DO, but Sprint has bought out practically all of their affilliate areas and have slowly started to roll out Ev-DO. My take is that they will push ya'll to Rev. A directly w/o there being Rev. 0. | |
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ccoggle
join:2001-08-06
Salt Lake City, UT | New hardware? In order to take advantage of this does this mean buying a new phone? | |
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| Semi751
join:2006-01-03
Waddy, KY | Re: New hardware? For rev A new equipment is required to take full advantage. Rev 0 equipment will work on Rev A without the added benifits
just as current 1xrtt equipment works on evdo enabled towers but with crappy speeds. | |
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jaxdomino
join:2001-12-01
Jacksonville, FL
| From the article:
In conjunction with the rollout of the upgraded mobile broadband network, Sprint will market a variety of EV-DO Revision A compatible devices, starting first with connection cards offered in PCMCIA Type II, USB, and ExpressCard(TM) form factors. These devices will also work on the current Sprint Power Vision network. | |
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Mr Rocker
join:2003-12-23
Grand Rapids, MI
|  Sprint Speeds Up EV-DO Revision A Plans.... oh ok...?
the service is available almost everywhere I go, but most of the time it's comparable to dial up...
at this point Sprint does NOT have my recommendation...
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| Semi751
join:2006-01-03
Waddy, KY
| Re: Sprint Speeds Up EV-DO Revision A Plans.... oh ok...? Is your connection showing 1xEVDO or 1xRTT? It will be on the right side of your connection manager, hover your mouse over the bars. 1xRTT is slow and with higher latency than dial up. I'm posting on an evdo connection now and testing at 1mb speeds down, 100k up and 260ms latency. Unless you use the service in evdo areas it will not be worth it to you more than likely. | |
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| | morgan1112
join:2003-04-07
Round Rock, TX
| Re: Sprint Speeds Up EV-DO Revision A Plans.... oh ok...? said by Semi751 :Is your connection showing 1xEVDO or 1xRTT? It will be on the right side of your connection manager, hover your mouse over the bars. 1xRTT is slow and with higher latency than dial up. I'm posting on an evdo connection now and testing at 1mb speeds down, 100k up and 260ms latency. Unless you use the service in evdo areas it will not be worth it to you more than likely. I'm posting from Sprint's evdo connection now and my DSLreports.com speed test result is 739 kbps down and 73 kbps up. My latency is averaging around 240ms here in Austin, TX. EVDO is absolutely night and day compared with the older 1xRTT devices. I have travelled all over the US and the speeds vary from tower to tower. However, when I am in an EVDO city the speeds are almost always more than adequate for web surfing, email, VPN etc. Sprint is hands down the fastest and cheapest mobile data provider on the market. And no I don't work for sprint....  | |
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BillRoland
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join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
clubs: | The article is inaccurate (surprise) They don't have 40 million CDMA customers. Just under half of their customers are iDEN customers, who have little or no interest in EV-DO.
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| VikingStorm
join:2002-06-25
Omaha, NE | Re: The article is inaccurate (surprise) Are you sure? Haven't they been migrating a lot of them to CDMA? If they had 40 million CDMA customers, that would still leave over 10 million on iDEN. | |
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| Brigrat
join:2003-09-01
Lovington, NM | iDen is going the way of the dodo so to speak. All customers will be CDMA by 2009...in which case those morons who stayed on the side of the company with a dead technology will have interest in EVDO | |
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jjsk8r85
join:2005-02-17
Belleville, MI | Re: The article is inaccurate (surprise) it's a good thing, too. IDEN has been garbage since the start. No coverage, no AMPS compatibility.... | |
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ricep5
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join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL
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| Chicken & Egg, Higher Speed or More Coverage? I trialed the Sprint EVDO service and it works as advertised, but you only get EVDO near large cities.
If EVDO is going to take off beyond business use into the consumer/general purpose space, then they need to beef up the coverage, primarily along interstate highways.
Every non-business user I have spoke to on using it say they would if they could take it with them on road trips in the mini-van or suv.
Coverage is already adequate for business users in airports and metro areas. Unfortunately it drops to 1xRTT as soon as you leave town.
I have used it for everything from VPN, IM, remote email, MySpace and it works just fine. However, it has latency, gaming across it will only frustrate.
If GM, Ford or DCX came out with a built in EVDO to WiFi router for vans, suv's and large trucks, I think the service would take off. | |
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Sprint Speeds Up EV-DO Revision A Plans
