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mags2
Agent Provocateur
join:2001-07-19
SoCal
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | Re: Now You See It Now You Don't Some real vague metropolis's added to their mix...Rochester NY? Odd.... | |
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lolwhat
We Are Toast
Premium
join:2001-06-11
USSA
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|  Re: Now You See It Now You Don't
said by juicelee:
Smaller cities=less dense urban areas.
Not necessarily. Most of Rochester's population is concentrated in the city itself, and the immediate ring of suburbs around it. The usual suburbanization of American cities goes on there, of course; however, it's still concentrated in that ring of close-in suburbs (Greece, Brighton, Irondequoit, etc.), a few suburbs that a couple interstate-equivalent highways run through (Webster, Ogden, Victor, etc.), and a few rich suburbs (e.g., the "P-Towns" - Penfield, Pittsford, Perinton).
Verizon Wireless is probably deploying in Rochester because:
1) As I mentioned, the area of deployment needed is fairly small, so "beta testing" (which is really what they're doing) is fairly manageable.
2) Rochester is the hometown of Frontier Cellular. Frontier Cellular had coverage over most of upstate New York; it was actually NYNEX/Bell Atlantic/whatever's "preferred" cellular provider in the area. Then, Bell Atlantic and GTE merged into Verizon, created Verizon Wireless, and Verizon Wireless bought Frontier Cellular. So, most of Verizon Wireless' upstate New York operations are still located in Rochester. Troubleshooting problems locally is easier than doing so remotely.
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MexiCubAZ
join:2000-06-09
Phoenix, AZ
clubs:
| Does it even work??? With how their cell service and even my current CDPD service works.. I am sure it will not fly.. There are more dead spots just on my way home from work that renders the service useless unless you are at a fixed location.
Sorry but nice try Verizon.
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| Yes it does...somewhat I just tried ExpressNEt today in Central NJ.
Run it on Sierra Wireless Card for laptop.
Easy Install.
Connected and stayed connected.
DSLReports Speed Test (running IE) showed me at around 50K throughput. This is a data connection.
I heard 70K to 100K is more typical.
My goal is to run Citrix over 50K wireless link so I can get Windows Apps running at near LAN like appearance.
At 50K, I still need to tweak it. | |
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join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL | Re: If you like Verizon, don't read this
That's what I hear when the commercial come on. | |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
| Verizon's next move They sure didn't wait very long. Last week they released their plans for Steeltown and like myself and a few others said here Verizon is releasing this product in their secondary markets first so hey can tweak it until it runs properly and then the big unveiling in New York and points elsewhere. They should do us a favor and wait until a technology is working well enough before releasing it. They went nuts with dsl and that was a disaster. I will never buy any sort of internet product from Verizon. They are a terrible company. I was jerked around by them for a long time and here now this isn't ready and it's being brought to market. Last week in the NYTimes was a piece about this already being sold in New York and not by Verizon. I think they're freaked that they are going to be left behind so instead of being the master of something they will offer bad service of all types of broadband access.. The author stated how he walks around the city with his lap top and has free internet. No one has blocks on their service. Verizon will have a field day charging parents roaming charges when their kids start using this. | |
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Wirelessgood
@151.144.x.x
| Eh? More info please The subject of this message is pointed at Verizon WIRELESS, not Verizon the landline pushers. So any problems you may have had with your landline DSL(Like I did) don't apply to the Express Network. I myself would like to see more wireless ventures attempt to bring more mobility to internet users. Although the speeds being reached at this time are almost on the pathetic side, I'm glad someones trying. Imagine setting up the webcam to post to your webcam live from the ski resort. | |
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