Any of you use it? Looks like I'm moving out in the cut where that's my only choice...

We had it at a location for my company, and it seemed okay for web browsing, but anything secure, such as vpn, it blew... horrible.

That's mainly what I do, is just web browse now, occasionally play counter-strike, and download music albums. I know they have all caps, the one I'm looking at is 425mb per day... I can live with that I guess. Mainly I'm looking for your opinion of web browsing, gaming, downloading files from websites, and torrents... hows the performance? 1.5mb down/250kb up... I know that total bandwidth will be slower than what I have now, but just curious about the response time.

let us know how it works, you can save some $$$ over the rip-off cable companies

Cable/dsl are much better bandwidth for money than this shit... it's expensive in comparison, I could get the $80 bandwith for $40 through cable with 60 tv channels locally. I pay $66 now for double the bandwidth, no limits of data transfer, and get the 60 channels too.

Correction, they bumped me from 3mbps to 5mbps a while ago... no extra charges... so it'd be even a better deal on cable.

We pay $110 for 500 long distance minutes, call waiting, caller ID, and a host of other things, 65 cable channels, one IP cable box (150 channels, 60 music channels), unlimited file transfer... it's DSL, and as such is not the fastest, tests out at 1.5mbps. But it's the fastest we can get here.

Zero,

Do you have an idea how strong of a cell-phone signal you would be getting? Might be worthwhile to check out Verizon or Sprint for their mobile broadband cards/USB modems. When I was using Sprint like this (which was the more expensive route when I had it), I think my monthly bill was ~$75/month for DSL+ speeds. It was more slow when the signal wasn't as strong, but it worked for what I needed it to; D/L Top Gear (600MB, average speed of 50kB/s, sometimes would see 100+kB/s based on users sharing the torrent), internet browsing, email, and streaming audio/video. Multitasking wasn't a problem either, I could be d/l'ing something large and still stream audio/video without much bother.

Yeah I've got company-provided unlimited data on sprint right now by using my blackberry as a modem... it gets about 96KBps download which is decent... when I'm traveling, I typically use that as its faster than the hotels hookup when I'm on the EVDO network. Sprint cell service works there, but the data... negative.

We're getting ready to switch to verizon... hopefully that'll do it...


Positive side: 10 minutes from an incredibly large lake. :)

My question for those using phones as their internet hub: how does one do Wii, KBL, or PSN?

My question for those using phones as their internet hub: how does one do Wii, KBL, or PSN?

In my experience with sprint (Using the EVDO network from ohio to florida)... I get about 96KBps down in all areas where I get the EV signal... which is okay for web browsing... but streaming anything, even youtube, it takes a while. I highly doubt gaming's reliance on fast response times would work on it...

In my experience with sprint (Using the EVDO network from ohio to florida)... I get about 96KBps down in all areas where I get the EV signal... which is okay for web browsing... but streaming anything, even youtube, it takes a while. I highly doubt gaming's reliance on fast response times would work on it...

Also, how would you connect? Don;t the phones connect to the PC via USB? There is no LAN, correct?

I would never use a phone for interwebs. Too slow, not reliable, not as unlimited as they make it sound.

Also, how would you connect? Don;t the phones connect to the PC via USB? There is no LAN, correct?

I would never use a phone for interwebs. Too slow, not reliable, not as unlimited as they make it sound.

Yeah, USB... Sprint and Verizon both have a little program... plug up the blackberry, hit connect, 4 seconds later, you're browsing. It's really nice... A guy I work with has a power inverter in his truck, he plugs up to that for power and gets on the internet going down the interstate.

Yeah, USB... Sprint and Verizon both have a little program... plug up the blackberry, hit connect, 4 seconds later, you're browsing. It's really nice... A guy I work with has a power inverter in his truck, he plugs up to that for power and gets on the internet going down the interstate.

*facepalm*