Extensive daily experience - very early adopter also,
so some time spent using it also.
Most all pros, but...
Upstream could be faster (RevA will be)
Still a bit expensive.
$15 for tethering (legit) is stupid
> Has anyone had any experience with the Verizon EVDO service? Pros and cons?
Porgy Tirebiter - 13 Dec 2006 04:28 GMT
> Extensive daily experience - very early adopter also,
> so some time spent using it also.
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>> Has anyone had any experience with the Verizon EVDO service? Pros and
>> cons?
One *VERY* annoying glitch....if the card switches down to 1X (and it
will)it poor signal areas, it will stay there until you disconnect and
re-acquire a connection.
This is MOST annoying!
>"John McDonald" <jdmcdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Has anyone had any experience with the Verizon EVDO service? Pros and cons?
I have used it in 13 locations around the country since December of last
year. I use my phone (VX6600 PDA/phone) tethered to my laptop, not a PC
Card.
I get 400-600 kbps down and around 50-80 kbps up when tethered with a
USB cable. My download speed drops to around 200-400 when I use a
Bluetooth connection.
Compared to Verizon's ubiquitous National Access (144 kbps) network,
it's great.
Downsides:
1. It is available only in major metropolitan areas. We travel
full-time, so we have access to it only about 5-10% of the time.
2. While it's fast compared to other cellular connections, the latency
inherent in cellular connections makes it perform very slowly when web
browsing. A typical web page has dozens of objects to download. The
hand-shaking involved with each of those download makes an EVDO
connection perform worse than a 56 kbps dialup line on most pages.
Ironically, the Verizon Wireless home page is one of the worst
(http://www.verizonwireless.com/). That page has 55 images in it.
For file downloads, though, it's terrific.

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Using Verizon EVDO at a campground outside Mesa, AZ
xavier-onassis@comcast.net - 28 Dec 2006 20:38 GMT
be sure not to sure your card to access streaming media!! Friend of mine had
acct CANCELLED for this. He would occassionally surf to streaming radio
sites. This use is EXPLICITLY prohibited in Terms of Service. Sprint's
connection card and terms specifically ALLOW accessing streaming media. If
you will never tap into streaming sites VZW is very good.