dcEVDOuser
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|  Re: Trying soon
However, as happy as I am with it, it is not without problems:
1) The PC5220 card was not compatible with my Compaq 1200z laptop nor a PC adapter I purchased for a Compaq tower. It was compatible only with a Stealth SFF machine I had coincidentally acquired.
2) I experience frustrating, sporadic signal loss that can last for minutes. The problem has not been identified and disappears for weeks at a time. Verizon's first hunch was a faulty PC5220 card. I rotated the SFF machine 30 degrees and it seemed to cure it for a week or so. Might be my location, the PC5220 card or who knows?
3) Inactivity puts the software/PC5220/link into a 'dormant' mode (probably to conserve bandwidth for other users). It takes a fair amount of time to get it active again. I don't have the metrics on this, but someone else at work who also got the service reports that it is unpredictable and bothersome. I would guess that a ping on a 'dormant' link would not look as good as one on an active link.
Even with the problems, I wouldn't (can't) part with it for the relative speed, mobility and privacy it affords me. Also, reports from another user that it works in the Metro underground just fine. |
