Verizon Wireless Modem

[dfumento]

Not exactly on topic but....
I have a T42 and and a X41Tablet is shipping by Thursday.

I bought the Verizon Wireless Modem and service (now $60/month for 2 year contract) and at least in New York City, works really well. I got rid of my cable modem so I'm paying only $20 a month extra.

The download rates clock in about 400 kbits/sec during the day or night. Upload about 50 kbits/sec.

Latency is also very good. People can't tell they are on the wireless modem.

I strongly recommend the service to anyone.
I did have to disable the software compression software with the help of tech support and that fixed some initial problems.

I have the best PC Modem card, the KPC650 which is highest rated and allows for an external antenna.

Also, the best handset by far for Verizon is the Motorola e815 which doesn't drop calls and has excellent voice quality. I get a full five bars of signal where a different Verizon handset (LG VX 3300) got only 2 bars. I have an area code 212 number for the cell phone (typically a landline area code for Manhatten as opposed to 917 and 646 and 347 for cell phones) and so I show up as 212 on caller ID and people call me on 212 and they think I'm talking from a land line the voice quality is so good. The Moto e815 does not have analog service, so would not be good in outlying areas.

I used to be a consultant for Motorola's wireless research division in Schaumburg, IL and the engineers there say that Verizon has the best service in USA (my undergrad is BS Elect Engr).

There is also a review of Verizon Internet service on the thinkpads.com web site as well as others on the internet.

[loonix]

Thanks for the review. I also believe that the Verizon service is best as far as data and reception is concerned. CDMA beats GSM in the US when it comes to data hands down. Now UMTS can give EVDO a run for the money but it is at least 2 years away and will be in select cities, by which time VZW plans to deploy EVDO everywhere and also the next generation 4G EVDO(revA) in select cities which is a really high bandwidth technology(suspected VZW throttle around 4 mbps download and 1.5 mbps upload!).

dfumento, the link on your signature is not working. Can you please fix it (or this is supposed to be a catch!! )

[no_man]

Cleveland was recently upgraded to broadband, and my Verizon unlimited service, using it with a Kyocera KPC650 card on any of my laptops, is freedom unlimited in Ohio and most of the U.S.A.

[GomJabbar]

Now UMTS can give EVDO a run for the money but it is at least 2 years away and will be in select cities......

I've been seeing rumors the last couple of days on the Cingular forums that UMTS with HSDPA will launch Nov. 1st. Whether this rumor has any basis we'll see in another week or so. But apparently Cingular is working on this, it is just a matter of time (unless it's vaporware of course).

I do have the feeling that Verizon's service is better than Cingular's. I have Cingular now with EDGE service, and I sometimes use it in NYC as well. Can't say the service is near as good as what the OP gets with Verizon.