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Brooklyn, NY | 1.5 Some people can't even get that speed on DSL land lines | |
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Mechanicsville, VA | Re: 1.5 Tell me about it. I wish it would come here so I could dump Comcast. They are my only option and I hate them.
I wonder what other features there will be. Like static ip's and server operations. I need something bad in my home for this. I have excellent Nextel coverage where I am. I would easily pay $75 per month for their service. | |
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Tell me about it. I wish it would come here so I could dump Comcast. They are my only option and I hate them.
I wonder what other features there will be. Like static ip's and server operations. I need something bad in my home for this. I have excellent Nextel coverage where I am. I would easily pay $75 per month for their service.
i hope your not planning to run servers off of this | |
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join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | Re: 1.5 Would not be large servers. Just small and personal. Very little traffic. Problem is that right now I have nowhere to run them. As Comcast forbids them to be run on their network. Even for business customers with business accounts and static ip's. | |
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join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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| IP addresses are likely to be private ones (i.e. 10.X). Nextel is also employing transparent firewalling to keep certain types of traffic from entering or leaving their network. Don't start salivating just yet. This is a web surfing, email checking product. No wireless provider in their right mind would let the typical DSLR/BBR power user on their network without a leash.
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1 edit | If you read the tech docs the service will see burst speeds of 3mbps, bout the same as cable. Upload around 384 and low latency. Supposedly easy to deploy as well, with them just plugging the base station into their IP network. Woo hoo. I too cant wait untill they deploy it nationally.
It is also expected to cost around 40-50/month according to flarions estimate, however it looks like Nextel bumbed up that price. | |
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| oldframePipe DreamsPremium
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Houston, TX | yeah, if its EVER available here, I will drop my dsl and use that. no doubt.
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Cheyenne, WY | Re: 1.5 said by oldframe:
yeah, if its EVER available here, I will drop my dsl and use that. no doubt.
$75/month is pretty steep for unlimited bandwith. You could go over the 150MB limit very fast at 1.5mbps.
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| | | Count me as one of those included.. highest package offered at my ISP is 960/320 which really equals about 770/270 for $55/mo ..  | |
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| | Bye Bye SLIC Finally I can get some decent internet access thats not on cable. Ive been stuck behind a slic no one wants to fix. To the air! | |
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join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | Re: Bye Bye SLIC Looks like you are in the saame situation I am. I am in Richmond also. Doing battle with Verizon and Cavalier right now over my loop distance. Even have tyhe SCC involved. | |
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Upper Marlboro, MD | Thats nice!!! I wonder what the pingtimes on something like that would be! | |
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Another selling point of Flash OFDM technology is that it offers less than 20 milliseconds of latency and full QoS | |
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kudos:1 | Nextel PTT When i think of nextel, i think of push to talk, i dont think data. Plus i dont think nextel will attract the average person to this. we will see.
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| Re: Nextel PTT said by DaveDude:
When i think of nextel, i think of push to talk, i dont think data. Plus i dont think nextel will attract the average person to this. we will see.
Nextel has horrible customer relations. Dealing with them is like talking to the IRS not a business. I dont know whats wrong with them. Yeah yeah we all have complaints against some company one way or the other, but nextel just caters too much to production type people.
They need to concentrate on aquiring more customers, but they dont seem to have a problem with holding such a small peice of the marketshare so whatever floats their boat.
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Upper Marlboro, MD Reviews:
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2 edits | Re: Nextel PTT said by Nightfall:
said by vic102482:
said by DaveDude:
When i think of nextel, i think of push to talk, i dont think data. Plus i dont think nextel will attract the average person to this. we will see.
Nextel has horrible customer relations. Dealing with them is like talking to the IRS not a business. I dont know whats wrong with them. Yeah yeah we all have complaints against some company one way or the other, but nextel just caters too much to production type people.
They need to concentrate on aquiring more customers, but they dont seem to have a problem with holding such a small peice of the marketshare so whatever floats their boat.
Gee, Nextel won an award for best wireless customer service from JD Power and Associates last year I believe.
If you want to hear really crappy customer service, call Sprint.
Dont get me wrong their customer service is good, fast answer times short waits, Im talking about their busiess strategy, contract terms etc.etc.. They are like what AOL has degraded to now without the 20 million customers;).
The non=existance of a family plan, the low minutes and slim features make that evident. They are BANKING on PTT. Cant have your eggs in one basket. While nextels wireless internet service will be the fastest they are the LAST to come to the table. Years behind other carries that have people locked in contracts:).
Nextel is good to longtime customers Im sure, but that doesnt mean jack when you cant get new meat in.:).
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Nextel PTT said by vic102482:
The non=existance of a family plan, the low minutes and slim features make that evident. They are BANKING on PTT.
Why would a carrier that focuses on BUSINESS customers with a network DESIGNED for PTT offer "family" plans and so on? (Keep in mind that it takes half the network resources for Nextel to handle a PTT conversation than a normal phone call.)
BTW, the Nextel Broadband service doesn't run in the same spectrum the phone/PTT service and their current slow packet data does (ESMR) -- there's a reason Nextel acquired MMDS licenses.
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| If you think nextel is good to long time customers i have 3 phones for sale about 3 months off their network 3 years we had them for ptt but it just got to expensive to deal with when sprint had the same plan but with 1000 minutes for half the cost. 'hell i showed em the sprint ad and they said well we don't match prices and I said well you don't have me as a customer.
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| said by Nightfall:
said by vic102482:
said by DaveDude:
When i think of nextel, i think of push to talk, i dont think data. Plus i dont think nextel will attract the average person to this. we will see.
Nextel has horrible customer relations. Dealing with them is like talking to the IRS not a business. I dont know whats wrong with them. Yeah yeah we all have complaints against some company one way or the other, but nextel just caters too much to production type people.
They need to concentrate on aquiring more customers, but they dont seem to have a problem with holding such a small peice of the marketshare so whatever floats their boat.
Gee, Nextel won an award for best wireless customer service from JD Power and Associates last year I believe.
If you want to hear really crappy customer service, call Sprint.
oh god don't remind me i remember setting up my pcs phone with the idian lady on the other end of the phone i had to walk her threw my phone setup. now that was funny.
anyway with sprint the service rocks just pray when you call you can understand them.
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I think this is a great thing... as long as I'm not forced to use some proprietary PC card to use it. My sister has Sprint PCS, and while slower, she doesn't have to use some wonky (and generally Windows-only) PC (PCMCIA) card to use it. I've seen a few that force you to install some useless card.
So, cell phone companies: Listen. People like me will never use your service if you use proprietary cards. If you let me use a Bluetooth phone and industry-standard protocols then I will. And it has to support at very least Mac OS X (Linux would be nice, too) in addition to the ubiquitous Windows support. Otherwise, screw your proprietary technology.
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| | | Re: As long as it doesn't use proprietary devices.
I should add:
If these devices do not use Bluetooth, USB-to-phone cable or Wifi then I won't use the service.
Also, if they make me install some sort of proprietary software on my computer I most likely won't use it, either.
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| Re: As long as it doesn't use proprietary devices. love my pcs plug in the usb cable on the laptop and im surfing while sitting in the park. 20 k sec too on the downloads.
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as long as I'm not forced to use some proprietary PC card to use it.
Well then how do you plan on connecting to the network? Flarion's OFDM is not available through the phone, so that leaves no choice but to use PC cards. | |
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Well then how do you plan on connecting to the network? Flarion's OFDM is not available through the phone, so that leaves no choice but to use PC cards.
Then I guess I'll never use Flarion's OFDM then. There's no reason why they can't build the technology in to the phones, and then allow you to Bluetooth from the computer to the phone on to the network.
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There's no reason why they can't build the technology in to the phones
Why would they build it into the phone when it's absolutely useless to the phone? It'll just add to the size and cost of the phone, when there's absolutely no need. The vast majority of people don't care about having to slide in a PC card to use the wireless network. | |
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Why would they build it into the phone when it's absolutely useless to the phone? It'll just add to the size and cost of the phone, when there's absolutely no need. The vast majority of people don't care about having to slide in a PC card to use the wireless network.
The main reason for these cellular wireless plans is to allow the phone on the network. Most of these phones have built-in browsers, e-mail capability, etc. The computer "piggy-backing" on to the network is secondary. That's why it should be built-in to the phone.
Unless we're talking about WiMax. Then that should be built in to the computer itself.
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| | | | | | | Re: As long as it doesn't use proprietary devices. This is not a "cellular wireless plan". This is Nextel Broadbad. It's no different than a company like Ricochet offering wireless Internet service. | |
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 The BeerI Love It When A Plan Comes TogetherPremium
join:2001-07-24
Atlantic, IA
1 edit | Where do I sign up? Where do I sign up?
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| | C'mon Nextel This may be the only alternative I ever get at my location for BB. Even though I'm 5 minutes outside St. Louis no provider can get me anything less than a $500 a month T1. Go Nextel! | |
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| Alternative for lots of people This could be a GREAT alternative for users who are already paying 50/mo for cable. With a download speed that was (until recently) the same as cable (except for rr) and a higher upload speed than most cable companies (once again with rr being the exception), this service allows you to take that broadband on the road with you too! This actually is a pretty good price for the unlimited plan if you have a nextel phone already and hate your local broadband service.
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| | | Re: Alternative for lots of people Check the nextel broadband web site to see that their service is tier'd and to get 1.5 mb service, the cost is not competitive with cable. the cable competitive price point only provides for 750kb down/215 up. | |
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join:2001-05-17
Wakulla, FL
1 edit | Re: Alternative for lots of people Who gives a rats behind? I'd pay $50/mo for 750d/215u.. being able to use it on the road makes up the difference. Sprints 144kbps service would be tossed in a heartbeat. | |
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| | well...... So comcast, when are you raining the upload speed? Even MOBILE is faster than yer regular plan, that is sad
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|  P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
join:2001-08-29
way way out | Re: well...... OMG please you know what markets will be first $$$$....most of you might as well give up now! | |
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| |  Ordered today and will report back on this thread
Some things I noticed.
1. They ran a credit check and asked for CC. The credit check involved answering some address history account and details.
2. They recorded my conversation and made me say that I would abide by the AUP and what not.
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| | | Re: Ordered today and will report back on this thr said by metro305:
1. They ran a credit check and asked for CC. The credit check involved answering some address history account and details.
That's definitely Nextel. They always run a credit check and the standards aren't so easy.
People can complain about their prices and not offering a lot of family type plans. The fact is they have some good packages. The part that costs and they haven't come down on price is the PTT part of the bill.
I've had them for over 4 years and love their service. I receive all incoming minutes for free. Nextel has brought a lot of good packages for the consumer market in the last year or so. Are the competitive on price? Maybe not..but I've never had a problem with their service. | |
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| | uh huh.. and what is there to upload from a cellphone?? | |
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| | | Re: uh huh.. said by bigdaddy175:
and what is there to upload from a cellphone??
This service has absolutely nothing to do with cell phones, aside from the fact that it's being offered by a cellular company. The service is used by PCs. | |
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| | | | Re: uh huh.. I just have Verizon Wireless Broadband Acess (in San Diego, EVDO area)for about a week, $79/month - 1 year contract, $299 for thier Airprime 5220 PC Card. Speed usually around 70KB/s download(=~ 700Kbps), I was on 24/7 for the past 7 days with only 1 lost connection (I'm on IRC all the time, so I logged whenever I got disconnected)
So far so good, I don't really have any complaining about wireless connection. Go Verizonnn !!! | |
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| | Test User in Raleigh Been on the trial for two days now and the speeds go up and down depending on the coverage signal. Its a freebe for the first 6 months so I'll report back after I have had it for a few weeks. | |
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