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To: Ramius

I prolly wasn't clear in what I was asking. I'm looking at Verizon Wireless Broadband.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/affiliate?vendorid=ONLINEMEDIA&jspName=/mobileoptions/broadband/index.jsp&ziprequired=false


3,800 posted on 08/07/2006 1:49:14 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I'm looking at Verizon Wireless Broadband.

Ahh... that's a different critter. Do they still want a two year committment to get decent pricing?

We're staying away from it, in favor of Cingular's competing product (HSPDA, IIRC) that they're just rolling out. It's better, faster, and will ultimately drive Verizon's product out. Cingular will also let you go month-to-month I think.

I believe that the Verizon WB would be a single-box only connection. While you could theoretically share it out to your other computers, I wouldn't recommend it.

The WB idea is pretty neat, but I think Verizon's going to have their lunch eaten by Cingular. You get a decent 128K to 256K or so connection, everywhere in town that cell signals work and you just don't have to worry about wifi access points. But... outside of cell coverage areas is still no go, and it *really* slows down when you get outside of major metro areas. Our test was in Phoenix, and it worked great, but out in Sedona... it slowed to a dial-up crawl.

3,806 posted on 08/07/2006 2:01:46 PM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1400 knives and counting!)
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