K1DEU
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join:2007-10-30
Stamford, VT
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July 19th, @10:48PM
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Re: Log Periodic Antenna and AT&T 881 Air Card GSM/3G ready
AT&T is not doing well here for their 850 MHz edge 2G signal at -79 DBm. only affords 220 Kilo bits download and 113 Kilo bits both measured upload. They remind me of Hughes saying Well we only said "up to" and this is within their limits ??? Wow $60 a month for 3 to 4X a telephone modem... Its more than obvious their cell site has major problems! I am satisfied that AT&T is not soft capping or complaining or charging over the 5 Gig limit. But in my case with improper down or up speed , nothing really matters. At least they will allow me out of my one year contract and I will compare AT&T to Millenicom and decide!
And now we have good competition again as Millenicom.com has a new "no contract" " no limit" deal with Sprint 3G revision A EVDO. Links
»millenicom.com/mobilebroadband/BYOD.htm
»Millenicom
Sadly, BTW this is not enough throughput to enjoy CNN Videos or U Tube Videos. They are jerky with the audio starting and stopping every 5 to 10 seconds.
Note; Just purchased a new Sierra Compass Air Card 597 USB on E-Bay from a seller who promised/mentioned that the ESN # was clean... So its ready to go on Millenicom...
Best Regards John
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Fredericksburg, TX
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| Hate to say it, but your speeds are actually on the good side for EDGE...in lots of places I get well under 200 kbps down and well under 100 up. Kilobits, mind you. Plus the latency is just lame; 400ms or so.
3G of course has better speeds, especially with the rollout of full HSPA across AT&T's network. However if you're not in that area you're screwed.
As to Millenicom, I'd wholeheartedly say "get it" if you possibly can and have coverage. 1x access is about the same as EDGE but is available practically everywhere. EvDO Rev. A (most of Sprint's high speed network, all of Verizon's, soon to be all of Alltel's) is comparable to, if not better than, AT&T 3G. CNN, YouTUbe, etc. should do quite well on there. Plus, no worries about capping, and no contracts. Would highly recommend, may switch over to 'em from the lame WiSP my fam has now, BYOD program permitting.
And no, I'm not giving up my vision of a game-changing third-pipe WiMax ISP...yet...;) |
