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MrTangent
join:2001-12-28
Earth
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Re: Ouch
said by aSic  :
How fast.. usually near 110-130kbps. Speeds vary by market. Thats where they usually hang here. In different areas I've seen less, and in some I see closer to 3g speeds.
How much, normal bill +$10. Although if you sign up now, the revised TOS expressly prohibits connections to a PC. Many ppl do it anyways, and they wont come down on you unless you use very heavily.
Does it drop out like regular calls? I've *never* experienced a "droppped call" unless I was in a moving vehicle...and I've been with Sprint since they launched in my market back in 8/98, with the 9600bps 2g link. If you're stationary, it is as rock solid as a landline connection. It will time out and require reconnects, (to keep those PC users irritated enough to stay off) but thats easily overcome.
Would I recommend it? Are there no other options than cellular service? Then heck yeah. You cant beat it.
Apple? Good luck locating USB drivers... I'm sure some exist, but still..good luck.
Thanks for the info. Almost every USB phone driver is built-in to OS X, actually. My sister's new Sanyo was built-in when I set up her Sprint PCS with her iBook. OS X has come a long way, especially with iSync and so on.
The thing I'm waiting on is for Sprint to come out with a Bluetooth-enabled phone so I can get online without wires of any kind. Sprint is supposed to be supporting a new(ish) Sony-Ericsson Bluetooth phone but haven't released it yet. Bluetooth (I hate wires!!!) is a necessity so until they support it, I won't sign up.
But again, thanks for all your information. It is invaluable. Take care.
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SuperJudge
Magus
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
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| said by MrTangent :
said by aSic :
How fast.. usually near 110-130kbps. Speeds vary by market. Thats where they usually hang here. In different areas I've seen less, and in some I see closer to 3g speeds.
How much, normal bill +$10. Although if you sign up now, the revised TOS expressly prohibits connections to a PC. Many ppl do it anyways, and they wont come down on you unless you use very heavily.
Does it drop out like regular calls? I've *never* experienced a "droppped call" unless I was in a moving vehicle...and I've been with Sprint since they launched in my market back in 8/98, with the 9600bps 2g link. If you're stationary, it is as rock solid as a landline connection. It will time out and require reconnects, (to keep those PC users irritated enough to stay off) but thats easily overcome.
Would I recommend it? Are there no other options than cellular service? Then heck yeah. You cant beat it.
Apple? Good luck locating USB drivers... I'm sure some exist, but still..good luck.
Thanks for the info. Almost every USB phone driver is built-in to OS X, actually. My sister's new Sanyo was built-in when I set up her Sprint PCS with her iBook. OS X has come a long way, especially with iSync and so on.
The thing I'm waiting on is for Sprint to come out with a Bluetooth-enabled phone so I can get online without wires of any kind. Sprint is supposed to be supporting a new(ish) Sony-Ericsson Bluetooth phone but haven't released it yet. Bluetooth (I hate wires!!!) is a necessity so until they support it, I won't sign up.
But again, thanks for all your information. It is invaluable. Take care.
I'm usually in Albany, GA, which doesn't have the best coverage. On Visions, I could pull anywhere from 85 - 256, and usually stayed right around 85 - 115.
There were a lot of billing discrepancies however, and I got charged for connecting the phone to my laptop, and charged quite a bit ($400+), and it took quite some time to get that issue resolved, as their billing agents are very quick to point fingers and brush you off.
Billing also doesn't seem to know that, in order to use visions with a laptop now, and not get charged heavily (per a rare agent in tech support), you need to purchase a PCMCIA card ($100) and pay to have a separate number for it, as well as a monthly charge, which I don't have much detail on.
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Sprinter99
join:2003-10-10
Grants Pass, OR |  sorry I didn't get to it first...
Thanks for covering the info for me Super. I left work right before he posted so I wasn't able to reply, but you covered it beautifully. | |
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