patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | more coverage Where Verizon has coverage, it is often wider than Sprints in the same area, Sprint wont EVDO rural areas, Verizon will. |
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| Wow, I'm surprised EVDO is in your area!
I live in a somewhat similar situation...though there are no mountains in my area, and the population per square mile is 4 times as high.
Anyway, what kind of uploads and downloads do you get? What about latency?
If EVDO Rev. A really is deployed near nationwide, then rural people can FINALLY stop complaining (hopefully). |
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| I only have a Rev0 card, but I get ~1mbps down and about 120kbps up. Latency is around 150ms. I'm about 3 miles away from two towers (NLOS). I have an external Wilson trucker antenna that gets me an EVDO signal of -65dBm.
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| Wow, I could deal with that; I might not be able to game or use VoIP until Rev 0 was deployed nationally, but 1 meg down and 120Kbs up is not bad at all.
I take it that there are no other options for you to get broadband, but EVDO and satellite?
Also, where is your EVDO card located? Router? PCMCIA Adapter on your PC? |
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Acutally it is the opposite. Sprint has an EVDO roaming agreement with Alltel while Verizon does not. Alltel has better rural coverage and plans EVDO rollout in many rural areas.
And looking and Sprint and Verizon future maps for EVDO, Sprint plans much more rural interstate coverage with EVDO than Verizon. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by Gono :
Acutally it is the opposite. Sprint has an EVDO roaming agreement with Alltel while Verizon does not. Alltel has better rural coverage and plans EVDO rollout in many rural areas.
And looking and Sprint and Verizon future maps for EVDO, Sprint plans much more rural interstate coverage with EVDO than Verizon.
Does alltel compete with/exist in the northeast? |
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