Laptop computers

[rcso]

That says for bluetooth enabled laptops, but clicking on their supported products they only list phones.

[PhuzzyGnu]

Back to Sprint EVDO- Yesterday I set a personal record of 1340 down/106 up. Granted I was in the Texas Medical Center in Houston with tons of coverage, but still.

Just now I speedtested it (using Speakeasy's speed test) at 760/57 sitting in my company's yard.

Earlier today I had 2 bars of signal at both the TX/LA state line and later in Crowley, LA - until I plugged in the ol' Wilson dual-band cellular external antenna, and it jumped to 6 bars of signal at both places. Money well spent.

I am a huge proponent of Sprint's EVDO card- in the areas I run it always works. In BFE it might be dial-up slow, but it still works. YMMV.

I am told Verizon touts their service as "Unlimited", but actually limits you to 5gB a month, and will terminate your service AND charge you the $200 early termination fee if you overrun OR if you d/l streaming video and/or use it for VOIP and/or online gaming. Ouch. Pretty much rules out any good porn surfing.

Sprint actually advertises their "unlimited" service for use for streaming video and VOIP. I can tell you from personal experience that if they have a bandwidth ceiling, I haven't hit it- and I would estimate my usage at 20-30gB a month between surfing and WarCraft.

In addition, they are rolling out EVDO Rev. A, promising moderately faster download speeds and greatly improved upload speeds. Only catch is I would have to buy the new Merlin S720 card. Bummer.

-p.

[rcso]

I use torrents to download stuff. Shshhh don't tell RRIA. I have gotten up to 1.5 mb/s download speed on torrents before. Not often, but normally with enough seeds(sources) I can get 700-850 kb/s easily and constantly. If they can beat my comcast cable speeds I'll look into it, but why are their coverage maps basically blank? What's the deal, highspeed in 5% of america and fast dialup wherever you can get a phone signal?

[Malaki86]

The Sierra 595 card is a Rev A card as well - I just got one.

As far as the 5% of the country being high-speed, ya, that's pretty accurate. You won't have DSL speeds everywhere, but you can almost guarantee you *WILL* have a connection.

As I stated before, most of the time I have 15-20k/sec d/l speeds in most areas, and DSL speeds in pretty much every major city.