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Does anyone have any good tips on Tweaking and EV-DO rev A Card from Ntelos or any tweaks for EV-DO in general?

I am so pissed off right now, for over a week I have had no EVDO service, I don't know what Ntelos have done but I am now at 1x, they keep sending me some signal to my card with no difference, they also have no technical support on the weekend, WTF?.

2 miles from my tower and the EVDO signal is more unstable then Charles Manson, the signal goes up then down... and when I say that I mean it goes to full signal to very little signal. I am about to go put this Franklin EVDO card up the salesman's ass!

To top it off, they did a check on the tower and was supposed to call me back within 24 hours, did I get a call?

I was surfing for about 3 days on 1Mb/s or so, now I get speeds at about 160Kbp/s

Get an external antenna.  My speeds jumped from boarderline 800k-900k to over 2M with an external antenna.  We run the entire house off a Verizion card.

If you are getting 160K, you are 1x, not EVDO.  Remove your card from your computer, reboot your computer and try it all again.

But you need an external antenna if you want great speeds.  This is what I use:

MBR-1000 http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35&products_id=765
  This little baby will pull down data faster than if I had the USB Modem attached to my own computer!

Antenna http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_165&products_id=913

I just tested, I'm getting 2.15M down.

::::::::::.. testmy.net test results ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 2151 Kbps about 2.15 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB)
Download Speed is:: 263 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 226 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 28 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/01/18 - 2:06pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-06OP2RL7Y
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-RBHKPQTGY
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

I had EV-DO when I got the card for 3 days, then they had tower issues... so they say, ever since the signal for EV-DO is like 1 bar up to 5 bars, I used to hit 5 bars all the time.

The unit has no external antenna but I was thinking of getting one to increase the speeds a little, but it used to work! I have the proof in my speed tests, now it keeps switching to 1x when it cannot surf on the low signal of EVDO.

It feels like they have either switched off the EVDO on my local tower = 2 miles away or the moved the damn tower somewhere (Joke) or someone built some big ass building in line of my house and the tower, I am thinking the first option.

I took the card to the store and we tested it on there test laptop, the card works fine and connected at full signal full speed EVDO and I tested it on here myself.

Guess I will have to wait until tomorrow and make the call to tech support (AGAIN) and see what they have to feed me this time.

I bought their extension cable and adapter.

http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=99&zenid=ab61f073ba0c052122b271e966a089bb

I was hoping to get even beter speeds was the real reason for the second antenae, but at times one does worki better than the other for real. So I ket it. And the yagi does usually pull a little better signal, but like I said it has to be pointed in the right direction. And mine is on a pole, where the trucker is attached under my soffit to the siding. Yes I did get good signal there. And odd place to say the least. But well protected too. And the yagi pulls best this time of year as the leaves are off the neighbors tree's. 

By the way, mine is in the basement. It does good with this setup. And my tower does get busy, but of an evening I do well. And when I first got mine it did get signal enough too. I suspect something on that too. Why would they only draw good at first. 

You never did say if your in a basement or not. 

It sounds like a tower problem to me.

Good to hear! Rock on Brother!