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EVDO internet Service
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3/1/2012 9:53:48 PM
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Good evening, LakeRN;
EVDO Rev A has a theoretical top speed of 3.1 megabits per second from the tower to your computer, and 1.8 megabits per second from your computer back to the tower.
That said, with channel congestion (how many people are trying to use it simultaneously) and how far you are away from the tower and how good an antenna you have on your computer or router, the speeds are generally lower than that. We have used EVDO since 2006 and have found it very acceptable for general internet service. Charter cable wanted ~$7,000 to string cable to our house for cable internet, and AT&T refused to provision expanded DSL service in the 825 central office, so we chose EVDO.
My experience with testing is that the tower to computer seems not to provide more than about 1.7 megabits per second and perhaps 300-700 kilobits per second from the mobile device to the tower. I'm very close to a tower, less than a mile, and can physically see it from the house with no intervening trees, which do cause poorer signals at the frequencies used (1900 MHz, for those techies out there).
So, for most web browsing and email it is fine. It is not really adequate, however, if you want to watch streaming movies from Netflix or Blockbuster or YouTube videos, especially HD ones. You will spend a lot of time waiting for the computer to accumulate video to display, and frequent interruptions in the display.
One positive thing is that if you purchase a wireless router with a EVDO 3G card, you can take it with you on trips to have high speed internet in your car (not for the driver, of course!) and in the hotels you stay in, bypassing the sometimes slow and potentially insecure and sometimes costly, hotel WiFi systems.
If you really want to get up to the streaming video speeds, I would suggest the new offering from Exede (not HughesNet). It is significantly faster than EVDO in download speeds, but it does suffer from 'latentcy' slowness that sometimes makes it unacceptable for interactive operations, such as gaming. Exede has prices that are in line with the older EVDO offerings by the terrestrial carriers.
RadioActive
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