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Adding a Verizon Broadband Card

post #1 of 13
9/15/05 at 4:03pm
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If I already have an Intel wireless card in my XPS for use with my home network and hotspots, can I also add the Mobil Broadband Access card from Verizon and choose which one to use?
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post #2 of 13
9/15/05 at 4:42pm
You'll want Any card that has EV-DO technology. Make sure you live in a city that has this network setup like NY or CA. Pricing is about 60 a month for unlimited usage. Also you can buy a Verizon Cell phone with EV-DO and just tether the phone to your notebook this way you can actually use it for phone calls and wireless internet. Obviously this is an expensive route as the EV-DO card by itself can run 200+ with a 2 year contract.
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post #3 of 13
9/16/05 at 11:16am
what is the average down and up speeds of that network?
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post #4 of 13
9/17/05 at 12:51am

What Gets Me Mad

THE Verizon web says all these disclaimers about no, p2p, streaming media etc...
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post #5 of 13
9/17/05 at 2:10am
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Originally Posted by mikron
THE Verizon web says all these disclaimers about no, p2p, streaming media etc...
Sounds like this damn college connection.
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post #6 of 13
9/17/05 at 10:30am
Verizon EVDO is my only internet connection now. I've used it since January and if nothing else, it's dead reliable. I live in a very good EVDO area with average DL about 800kb and 115 up. That's not cable speed but I get it *everywhere*. My computer and internet connection go out the door with me every morning.

I've used it all over the country with varying degrees of success, if you aren't in an EVDO area, you drop down to national access which is about 144kb down but it's there! My usage is about 2-3 gigs a month and I use it any way I want. If you want true national coverage, it's something to consider.

The Verizon Access Manager handles wifi and broadband and you can choose to use wifi when available and broadband when it's not, it's good SW.
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post #7 of 13
9/17/05 at 11:25am
Rich,

Mind saying where you live to get that speed ie 800kps? also how fast is cable then if its not at cable speed? I never understood this ie when I download stuff off cable I can get speeds up in the 500 kbs not usually more
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post #8 of 13
9/17/05 at 12:21pm
here's my Comcast speed



you might wanna check this thread to see other broadband speeds...

here's the link to the Speakeasy test...

and here's the link to the 2wire test...
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post #9 of 13
9/17/05 at 1:13pm
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Originally Posted by djxput
Rich,

Mind saying where you live to get that speed ie 800kps? also how fast is cable then if its not at cable speed? I never understood this ie when I download stuff off cable I can get speeds up in the 500 kbs not usually more
I'm in Dallas, Texas. As Dozit points out, cable can be pretty fast. I think I may have misstated my download, it's 800kbps, one meg being 1000kbps, hope that clears it up.
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post #10 of 13
9/17/05 at 1:33pm
Same here. I use one (KPC650) and it works quite well.
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post #11 of 13
9/18/05 at 5:24pm
800kbps means kilo-bits per second. It's not kilo-bytes, as you're probably thinking. The 500kbps max that you're getting when you download stuff is probably indicating 500 kilo-bytes per second. Cable actually goes anywhere from 3-8mbps, I believe. Some companies might have 10mbps. That means kilo-bits per second, which means you wouldn't get that speed when downloading from a site.
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post #12 of 13
9/18/05 at 5:59pm
I also have a broadband connection wherever I am. But if I was in a different situation it sounds like a prettty cool service.
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post #13 of 13
9/18/05 at 7:52pm
yep, little b = bits, big B = bytes...

1 byte = 8 bits so just divide bits by 8 to convert to bytes...
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