Sprint's connection to the 'net isn't a problem, it's likely something local. Sprintlink is a tier 1 provider and has peering arrangements with several providers.
My speeds were hardly ever over 500Kbs with my old yagi, after installing a parabolic grid antenna my speeds now range between 600 and 1000. The fastest times being in the mornings, late evenings and certain times during the weekends.
I'm basically pretty content with anything 500Kbs and above. After dealing with dial up and then flaky Hughesnet for too many years...the Sprint service is ok. -- ex Hughesnet customer - thank goodness!
Sprint's connection to the 'net isn't a problem, it's likely something local. Sprintlink is a tier 1 provider and has peering arrangements with several providers.
I'm in a very rural county, pop. 9000. Sprint has 5 or 6 towers sprinkled around with on them a big tower near Jim_in-VA from which Jim gets excellent speeds. I don't have a problem with connection, speed tests are fair to good. In fact this morning ~1242 up 270 down, -70 dBm. However loading any website it's like 1.2 to 13 which is much slower than the dialup I used to have. It takes forever to load a webpage especially one with images and graphics. It's not my computer as I can put the 680 in my wifes laptop and it does the same thing. I just wonder if Sprint has all the towers linked to one and combining them onto the web.
The image is when I was loading my local online newspaper site. It's representative of all my sites.
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