 Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
kudos:2 | boo... Caps are da sux... |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Agreed.
Since VZW's TOS states that connecting to corporate Intranets are OK, I wonder if I set up VPN to my home (or work), and used the connection that way for VoIP/video, etc. |
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Oddly enough Sprint is going in the complete opposite direction ensuring customers that streaming video and gaming is perfectly fine with thier service. They also announced an evdo to wifi router in conjuction with LynkSys to be released the second half of this year. Talk about extreme differences in the adoption of new services.
The test will be when this technology is widely accepted at to whether it will be too much load on the towers. |
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC Reviews:
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| said by Semi751:Oddly enough Sprint is going in the complete opposite direction ensuring customers that streaming video and gaming is perfectly fine with thier service. They also announced an evdo to wifi router in conjuction with LynkSys to be released the second half of this year. Talk about extreme differences in the adoption of new services. The test will be when this technology is widely accepted at to whether it will be too much load on the towers. I noticed this as well when researching wireless internet access this past weekend. Sprint actually wants you to use the network.
Verizon on the other hand - doesn't. If you use video or audio streaming of _any_ kind (even over VPN) they'll can you for it. And quickly, too.
Which sucks. Because Sprint, Verizon and Alltel are the only three offering EV-DO(nt) around here. AT&T/Cingular are still on the old system at around 300kbps.
I think I'll wait a little longer before I get this & cell service. |
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said by Semi751:Oddly enough Sprint is going in the complete opposite direction ensuring customers that streaming video and gaming is perfectly fine with thier service. They also announced an evdo to wifi router in conjuction with LynkSys to be released the second half of this year. Talk about extreme differences in the adoption of new services. The test will be when this technology is widely accepted at to whether it will be too much load on the towers. Not exactly. »[Sprint] Power vision streaming time limit?
EDIT: It can be argued that the point of that is not so much about your battery, but to inhibit streaming from soaking up bandwidth. Also, unless they changed it in the last few days, they compress images so that they look awful.
When we got our card the rep told me that they could impose restrictions "at any time" to "protect our network bandwidth from hogging."
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to en102
said by en102:Agreed. Since VZW's TOS states that connecting to corporate Intranets are OK, I wonder if I set up VPN to my home (or work), and used the connection that way for VoIP/video, etc. Verizon wont care if its a vpn. They can't sniff ur connection to see what the traffic is (well VZ Accounts Investigation can't, nothing stops them from reworking the system). They use a mbyte cap or top 5% usage to identify users to target. I dont think a vpn will matter. I guess u can try doing it then arguing and see what happens. |
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1 edit | The problem is "sole discretion" clauses which permit them to further avoid contracts by defining up to mean down, left to mean right, and applying those definitions in one case only.
Imagine entering a contract where you promised to give all your labor and property to an individual where the person you were contracting with had the sole discretion to decide what terms of the contract would mean. Oh, that term $100,000 I promised to pay you doesn't refer to "dollars, it refers to pesos," but that clause five lines down which says you will pay me $50,000, that means "dollars." These contracts are heads they win, tails they lose. I particularly love the part about how they can change the terms and you can't leave. The rules of contract interpretation just don't seem to apply.
You know those arbitration clauses on the bottom of these contacts that we sign. I bet you that they even deny the aribitrator the right to revisit their interpretation of the meanings of these terms. |
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>These contracts are heads they win, tails they lose
I think you mean "Heads they win, tails we lose."
>They also announced an evdo to wifi router in conjuction with LynkSys to be released the second half of this year.
I have a fistfull of dollars waiting for EVDO. I thought that something might come out of Sprint now that they are advertising the service. |
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