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« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2008, 09:46:38 PM »
Just hope that one day EVDO finds your doorstep, it is better in many ways. And feels damn good to say good by to hughes net for once.  knuppel2

Actually my dw6000 did ok for me.  Wink
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« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2008, 11:53:41 AM »
EVDO is here, but I can't get any sense out of the idiots selling it, they tell me it like 24Mbit LMAO.... when I tried it I got 0.5 Mbit down and 0.6Mbit up on an unloaded network, that to me is not that great.
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« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2008, 12:36:28 PM »
Quote from: tommie gorman on October 04, 2008, 09:46:38 PM
Just hope that one day EVDO finds your doorstep, it is better in many ways. And feels damn good to say good by to hughes net for once.  knuppel2

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I had the DW4000 it ran pretty good when it did run :haha:
Quote from: sparky on October 05, 2008, 11:53:41 AM
EVDO is here, but I can't get any sense out of the idiots selling it, they tell me it like 24Mbit LMAO.... when I tried it I got 0.5 Mbit down and 0.6Mbit up on an unloaded network, that to me is not that great.
I wish EVDO ran at 24Mbps LOL. Who is it do you have , and how good of signal strength you have. I have verizon EVDO on my cell phone that i just connect to my laptop when ever i need internet. At Home all my bars and -71dbms and i do on average of 800-900Kbps. And whats fu*k up when i go to my brother in laws house I barely get a bar, and i pull 1.4Mbps every damn time. My guess is the tower by my house just has a lot of traffic on it tickedoff
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« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2008, 11:03:30 PM »
Thats the problem, I do not have EVDO as I am unable to get sense out of Ntelos, none of there sales people know what the hell they are talking about.

Its a shame when I have to walk in there door and ask for a demo, he tells me its 24Mbit and I show him the actual test results from this website 0.5Mbit Down and0.6 Up on an unladen system.

All I wanted was facts, not fiction.... so as yet I still do not have EVDO, but I can get it if I want it, I just do not want to waste $35 on a connection fee that I will not get back if I return it in 30 days, otherwise I am committed to a 2 year contract, another reason I am not happy about it.
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« Reply #34 on: October 07, 2008, 03:01:52 AM »
Quote from: sparky on October 04, 2008, 03:00:45 PM
Not to dig up and old topic, but EV-DO Rev A is in my area, Ntelos have it but I can't get answers from there knowledge less sales people, the same sales people telling me it will go at 24Mbits a second!!!!

I tested it on there laptop with an unloaded system, I.E. no users on the system (NEW), and I got 0.5Mbit down and 0.6Mbit up! for an unloaded system boasting speeds of 1.5Mbit a second on an unladen network I would expect to see more then that, load it up and your back to dial up again!

So what is this all about, is it worth the move from Hughesnet? for $10 less a month? is latency still an issue? ANYONE!

24 meg is a bit high for EVDO if you have done any research. I checked Sprint and you are in the Sprint coverage area. It shows on Grafton as far out as Phillips Rd, but if it is revA I could not tell you. 2 weeks ago I was down along route 81 through Pa, Md, WV and Va to route 64 (Staunton) and got connected on my laptop most of the way with Sprint. Only a few areas were dead for a mile or two.

With Sprint at home here I get from 1Meg to up around 1.8-1.9meg most any time. I use a  Pantec500 card plugged onto a Linksys WRT54G3G with a outdoor trucker antenna to the card.

As for latency I went from the 700ms with Hughes to usually around 140 to 170ms with Sprint. After Hughes for 6 years this is awesome. All this information has been gone over so if you want more help just send out the tickets and I'm sure someone will show up to help you shop.  angel
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« Reply #35 on: October 07, 2008, 05:55:55 AM »
Sprint huh? I think they use 1x rtt, not sure if they are EVDO right now, I will look into that.

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« Reply #36 on: October 13, 2008, 02:11:01 PM »
Well I am certainly not going with nTelos, customer service is poor, no knowledge and slow, the service is slow and they cap it at 5GB a month with would be about 130mb a day, not worth $59.99 a month, I will stick with the junk I have now, at least I am not in a contract with Hughes.
Ohh, nTelos require a 2 year contract.
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« Reply #37 on: October 13, 2008, 04:21:36 PM »
Quote from: sparky on October 13, 2008, 02:11:01 PM
Well I am certainly not going with nTelos, customer service is poor, no knowledge and slow, the service is slow and they cap it at 5GB a month with would be about 130mb a day, not worth $59.99 a month, I will stick with the junk I have now, at least I am not in a contract with Hughes.
Ohh, nTelos require a 2 year contract.
Yuck, that sucks. Well keep looking always, something will pop up on the horizon eventually.
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« Reply #38 on: October 13, 2008, 04:23:31 PM »
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« Reply #39 on: October 13, 2008, 04:41:33 PM »
Anyone have some bug spray, seems we are getting overrun with ants and things!

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