T60p Verizon EVDO question

[rocketman]

If I have the Verizon EVDO service with the T60p Verizon EVDO equipped notebook would I be able to be connected to the internet on a car trip between NY anf Florida? Or is it wishful thinking.

[jobes]

I don't think you would be connected 100% of the trip. Check the coverage map at http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c and see what it looks like between points.

[jeremivw]

If I have the Verizon EVDO service with the T60p Verizon EVDO equipped notebook would I be able to be connected to the internet on a car trip between NY anf Florida? Or is it wishful thinking.

I can't speak to the East Coast, but I know that both Sprint and Verizon have EVDO lining the highways down here in Tejas. I get great connection rates between Dallas and all other major Texas cities (i.e. Austin, San Antonio, Houston) all along the way...

[jobes]

Here in IL I connect with my Nextel via Bluetooth at a whooping 46kilobits\sec. That's like 1MB per 3 min. I hope that stated 400-700 kbps actually seems faster than this crawing Nextel.


Kbps KB/sec Mbps MB/sec
56 6 Dial-Up
144 18 (3x faster)
384 48 (8x faster)
768 96 (16x faster)
1,100 137.5 1.0 (20x faster)
1,500 187.5 1.5 (27x faster)
3,000 375 2.9 0.36 (54x faster)
6,000 750 5.8 0.73 (108x faster)

[stephenaron]

My new T60 arrives this coming Monday, but i have used Verizon Broadband up and down the East coast for a year, and it works great.

[warmstrong]

As long as four years ago I was using Verizon's service to follow the Tour de France minute-by minute as I drove from NYC to Hyannis, MA on the way to Nantucket. That predated Verizon's Broadband Access, but the signal was often strong enough to refresh the feed as Lance Armstrong and others climbed up the Alps or the Pyrenees. At other times the signal would be lost and I would have to wait to reconnect. I'm sure that would be the case on a trip from NYC to Florida with the signal switching between Verizon's Broadband Access (fast), National Access (not so fast), and none at all. Unfortuanately the TP internal EVDO card does not have an external antenna connection and is not a version of the fasted rated Kyocera card.

On the good side, I've lost three or broken four of these PC cards. You would have to lose the whole laptop to lose an internal card!

If I have the Verizon EVDO service with the T60p Verizon EVDO equipped notebook would I be able to be connected to the internet on a car trip between NY anf Florida? Or is it wishful thinking.