EV-DO Broadband, Live And Direct From The Woods

I use the EV-DO service thru Verizon. I find the best way is to use it is to remotely control another machine connected to a hard wired network. I use GotoMyPC but there are lots of ways to do it. Even when the connection slows way down the system is still very usuable.

I finally feel like I can truly work anywhere and I am fully connected no matter where I am - This is the good life!!!

Thanks,
Larry

According to Verizon's coverage maps, Versailles, Indiana does not have EV-DO service. EV-DO has only been deployed in some markets at this point in time -- and these are mostly large markets. Without EV-DO, the connection would be a 1x RTT connection which is significantly slower. I would expect speeds that are much faster in an area that actually had EV-DO service, especially in a peak times. In addition, EV-DO is mostly located on the 1900mhz frequency rather than the 850mhz frequency that most voice traffic is located on -- this would also help relieve bandwidth issues at peak times.

Included is a copy of the aforementioned map -- the purple areas represent where there is EV-DO coverage, the yellow represents 1x RTT service, and the star signifies the town of Versailles.


Also, here is a list of markets that are EV-DO ready...
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/coveragelocator/covlocatorpopup.jsp?mapSelected=BROADBANDACCESS

Great Article, we have had 3G in the UK for a while and we ar elucky to not be as big as the USA so we have pretty much blanket coverage..

I use it all the time have done for over a year.. it rocks for email, and can load web pages as fast as you need, unless you want video..

Its not a great system.. 3G that is but we are soon to start rolling out :

HSDPA
this will rock but of course only till the next technology!

I was wondering is this type of mobile broadband a solution to play online games via my laptop? perhaps world of warcraft? or mabye something simular that could handle that sort of thing?

I travel from time to time and do not always have a choice where i can stay and something like this being able to use anywhere i can make a cell phone call would be great, iv been hopeing something like this would come out for mobile gaming yet im not sure if this will cut it.

Anybody know?

Perhaps a bit late to this topic, however, I just started using EV-DO w/ Sprint in the greater Portland, Oregon area.

I've tried it in several places throughout the metro and consistently get 480K/120K download/upload. It is like a med-speed DSL link. To test this, I'm tethering a PPC6700 running Mobile Windows 5.0 on a WinXP laptop and using www.dslreports.com/stest (Seattle's speakeasy)

The speeds discussed in the article sound like almost 1xRTT which suprises me.

Here's the coverage map for Portland area:

http://tinyurl.com/lnhg8

Where the orange is EV-DO coverage area and the beige is being worked on.

Cheers!