<I hear that the phone will connect your laptop at 200k+ in some cases
-- which is nice.>
I have used Vision with my laptop while RVing over the last year - surfing
and emailing - no problem.  You don't use minutes if you dial #777 to
connect.  I have never gotten that kind of speed.  I was also told by
various Sprint reps I could do this (regardless of what the TOS says).
DonnaB

If you use it as a Spur of the moment I need to do some net access then you
are fine.

if you use it AS AN ISP and try downloading lots of stuff for long times or
to download mp3's etc.. that is abusing it. not what its designed for.
(their is limited bandwitdh) for example in Murtle Beach Many times I would
get network busy. IE the bandwidth was full.

wait a while then log in. I do not use pingers so it does not use bandwidth
when its not busy (vision arrows go dim) your still "their" but not using
anythign till you click something.

most of my "heavy" usage is very rare but very compressed IE all during one
time each year. but I do this after hours (think nights and weekends) so I
try to be on off peak when I do my really heavy traffic. I even connect at
work sometimes now for general browsing but I wait till after 2300 or so to
do it so I do not suck up peak time traffic. so far they are fine with this
IE no complaining.

I have been doing this for nearly the entire time I have been with sprint (2
years) it got much better once I got a 6400 (3g connection) verse the 6200
which got me 1kb/s at best :-)

I do not measure speed like that. I measure in more practical terms. how
many k can I download per second. The max speed I have gotten is spurts of
12k/s it varies depending on where I am from 1k/s to 12k/s but I average
10k/s in most places

When I was in Kentuky for naram this past year it was interesting. at the
hotel room I thankfully got 10k/s but at the FIELD I only managed 1-5k/s
averaging around 1.5 to 2k/s

I am guessing it varies from network to network and based on your distance
etc.. from the tower.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Boy, there sure is a lot of weird new information in this newsgroup.
I'd love to know what's real and what's not.

First, some people are talking about speeds in excess of 200kbps (one
person mentioned 230kbps).  That's funny -- I had always been told that
the current CDMA 1xRTT network would *peak* at 144kbps under the
absolute best of conditions, and that's in short bursts and only if you
had a dedicated card.  Now folks are claiming that certain *phones* will
work almost 100kbps faster than even that.  I know my 4900 averages
about a *fourth* of this touted 230kbps, so I'd love to know about these
new super phones and how the network suddenly got a whole bunch faster.

Then in another thread, someone claims that all NEW Vision phones from
now on will be limited to 14.4kbps, and that you have to get a card (and
pay the corresponding bucks) if you want the higher speeds.  Is *this*
true?  Is, for example, the RL2500 only able to connect a laptop to the
net at 14.4kbps?

Could somebody from Sprint PCS please enlighten us as to what the truth
of both claims are?

Under Vision, no, it won't use your minutes.

Generally, the people who have been contacted for abuse have transferred
HUGE amounts of data, we're talking over a couple gigabytes a month.
While that's not huge if you're using, say a cable modem or DSL
connection, it is on a wireless network.  So, keep your wireless modem
connections to just web surfing and e-mail, and you should be fine.

I wouldn't say it's that fast, but I have hit close to the 144kbps limit
a few times.  Sometimes I get as high as 136kbps.