Verizon Gripes About EVDO Sharing > this will be so slow...

this will be so slow...

That's my thought.

Oh no, some guy is splitting 300kbps between two people! The very strain could rattle the core of the Internet itself!

Where I live the evdo (tampa bay area) runs 500 ~ to 1.5 I run download test of compressed file and was getting about 1.2 mbps when I did the math. But I am sure there are more conjested areas like NY where they are lucky to get 300kbps.

Yes, maximum burst can be up to 2.4Mbps...but on average speeds are closer to 500kbps. Yeah though, that's based on data from the San Diego and DC deployments.

reply to Karl Bode
I think the 'real' concern is that a hotspot style of usage could consume a decent amount of bandwidth. Since there is only a certain amount of spectrum, and it is shared, VZW will have issues. Also, as it is a big corp - they'll take all the money you can give them... and come back for more. If it is part of the TOS - (just like DSL and Cable sharing), then they'll b!tch about it.

»www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobi···info.jsp

Of course, but their alternative is to cap, throttle, and generally be legal PITAs, which isn't too wise from a competitive or PR standpoint, IMO.

It was the same complaint cable companies had when Wi-Fi emerged, and we posted stories about cable lawyers sending legal threats to people with open hotspots. AT&T Broadband would even have engineers fly over neighborhoods looking for open hotspots in the early days.

They eventually learned to deal with it. As will 3G providers.

My father works for boeing, and when you work for boeing you get a HUGE discount on Verizon Wireless service, we were able to get an E815 EVDO phone for 14.99 free activation.

Anyways, because of the way cellular networks divy up spectrum, verizon has to have a TOS like that. As someone mentioned there are bursts of higher speeds but when more people get on, of course it goes slower.

I understand their viewpoint becuase bandwidth hogs make it difficult for them to give advertised speeds. EVDO aircards and $80 service are going to be business users who need VPN and maximum availability, not bittorrent users who have to have the latest download then and there, so most people will acutally use the service according to the terms of the TOS, only a select few will actually abuse it.