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Verizon BroadbandAccess

Verizon BroadbandAccess - I've had this for a week now.  For the most part, I'm VERY impressed.  I've used it in Dallas, Pittsburgh, DC, Philly, and am currently in the Atlanta airport doing this blog entry.  I previously used an AT&T wireless laptop card, and paid my early termination fee to switch.  Best move ever.  Most people think the $80/mo. is too expensive, but for as mobile as I am, it's a great value-add.

My only complaint (hoping someone else has seen this problem - HELP!), is that when I connect up, and load outlook (which I use with RPC over HTTPS), it takes FOREVER to actually sort itself out and get my email. FOREVER = 10minutes +

Web outlook is speedy, I can surf the web with outstanding performance, but my MS Outlook just doesn't seem to get going.  It eventually will, and once it does, I don't notice any further problems, but to just do a quick "sync" is nearly impossible.

Posted: Mar 05 2005, 12:48 PM by cmenegay | with 8 comment(s)

Comments

Roger said:

Did you buy the laptop card, or the PocketPC Phone? Because the phone can Bluetooth a internet connection to your pc also, right? The real test for me would be to see you try to remote desktop to another pc.
# March 5, 2005 6:48 PM

Chris Menegay said:

I bought the laptop card. I have my phone service with TMobile.
# March 7, 2005 2:11 AM

Peter Munnings said:

Let us know how your trip to South Africa went. Did you see any lions?
# March 9, 2005 9:11 AM

Mike Hornback said:

Hey,
I've got an idea I'm working on with my card in the greater Cincinnati area. It seems that my connection is slower than what it says. Today I tried to do a large download 272.4 MG - administration tool for XP SP2. I started it and the VZAccess software reported an average throughput RX of 165.4 kbps after just over an hour - and it wasn't a third done yet. I did some math and if actually downloading at 150 kbps, it should have completed in 31 minutes. My download mananger (Firefox) was indicating about a 20 kbps speed. All I did during that connection was that download - it died after 63 minutes and had only downloaded 74 MB. If my math is right, that's right at 20kbps. Did I get my math wrong? Maybe your problem is a speed issue that doesn't show up until you do more than surf.
# March 12, 2005 12:50 AM

Mike Hornback said:

ooohhhh! My math was right, but my converstion numbers were wrong. kbps = kilo*bits* per second, not kilo*bytes* per second. Firefox was reporting KBps. Another blog had that concept.
http://eliot.landrum.cx/archives/2005/03/03/day-of-verizon-broadbandaccess/
I don't know if your problem is with your speed or something related to getting the connection to stay active rather than going/staying dormant.
# March 12, 2005 1:33 AM

John Harrison - GCIS.NET said:

From my experience, the service works better for RDP (Remote Desktop) than it does anything else (including WWW browsing). I have gotten excellent RDP paint speed everywhere I've tried so far RDP doesn't need much throughput, just a persistent connection, and so far this thing's got like NO packet loss. Ping times in the 220's. I didn't buy this thing to surf the web, I bought it to reboot downed servers from remote regardless of where I am when a customer decides to run an untested script on a production box. :)

Wonderful product, and in my case, life changing.

I had tried T-Mobile's data packages in the Cincinnati area from 2003-2005 and they just weren't usable because there was no infrastructure to support it.

# March 24, 2005 11:32 AM

Rob said:

I am curious if anyone has thought about/implemented Verizon BroadbandAccess for home usage. My obstance would be configuring the card and somehow having it connect to my router... I would love to dump my cable modem if this technology could deliver.

Any thoughts, anyone?
# April 2, 2005 1:59 PM

Chris Menegay said:

You could probably do this with Internet Connection Sharing in Windows and setup a laptop/PC as a router for the rest of the network. The upload speeds are pretty slow, so you'd probably notice that slowness depending on what you're trying to do with multiple computers.
# April 2, 2005 2:13 PM
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