Sunday, 23 April 2006

KPC650 EVDO air cardVictor Garza over at the InfoWorld Zero Day Security weblog wrote a bit about his experience with his Verizon EVDO card. He recently switched over to the Kyocera KPC650 PC card (which is the one I have) after complaining to Verizon about the performance of his older card, which had an integrated antenna, and says he has seen some real improvements.

What really caught my eye in his blog entry, though was this:

"I've also heard that several speed improvements are coming to Verizon's EVDO marketplace. Requiring only a firmware update to existing EVDO cards this update will kick speeds up to the megabit range..."

Hmmm - anyone heard about this? If this happens - and I sure hope it does - I will be one very happy Internet addict. Looks like the reference is to EVDO Rel. A, which promises upgraded speeds of up to 3.1mbps downstream and 1.8mbps downstream - much faster than today's EVDO networks speeds. Fingers crossed here that a firmware upgrade will be available, and we don't all have to buy new cards!

Also, you can read a bit more about the history and future of EVDO here.



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Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:36:58 (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
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Friday, 28 April 2006 19:31:08 (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
EVDO is barely being rolled out here by Sprint and Alltel, both say they will relize 1.5 Mbit off-peak, and about 600 Kbit worst case scenario. Good old Farmington for ya.
Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:16:36 (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Has anybody heard anythig good or bad regarding T-mobile Edge network data cards?
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