mobile WiFi accesspoint?

[gary]

I recall hearing a radio interview with some Blackberry representative 
that they were sticking with EDGE for power consumption reasons. It 
sounded like double-speak to me since you would think a phone with HSDPA 
could fall back to EDGE.

I have EDGE and will confirm it is way too slow, though in some markets 
it is better than others. In the SF Bay Area, EDGE is on continual 
overload. When I use it in socal or Vegas, it is like a turbo has been 
installed.

The only thing I can say positive about EDGE is the GSM network in 
general seems to work better than other services I've had when roaming. 
That is, I think the networks are more uniform across the country. I 
can't tell you how much time I spent with Verizon trying to get voice to 
work in some markets that I would not call rural. I've run EDGE without 
a hitch everywhere I've traveled (assuming the service is available.)

On an unrelated note, now that Speakeasy is under Best Buy, should I be 
looking for a new DSL provider?

Daniel Marsh wrote:
> I have seen a lot of real world speed tests that show that HSDPA 
> typically delivers 60-70% of the downlink capacity of EVDO rev A. There 
> are very few handsets on the market that support HSDPA and HSDPA has 
> only been deployed in a very limited number (17 was the last number I 
> saw) of markets. On the other hand, both Sprint and Verizon offer EVDO 
> rev A throughout pretty much their whole network and can fall back on 
> 1xRTT if need be. Of the two, Sprint seems to score higher in download 
> tests and has a much better end user agreement/acceptable use policy. 
> ATT's only fallback option is EDGE, which is ungodly slow and actually 
> crashed for most of the day nationwide as all the Iphone maniacs tried 
> to suck down videos of skateboarding dogs off Youtube.
> 
> -Daniel Marsh
> 
>> It clearly isn't and latency is higher.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Casey Halverson" <casey.halverson at infospace.com>
>> To: "SeattleWireless Talk List" <talk at seattlewireless.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:55 AM
>> Subject: RE: mobile WiFi accesspoint?
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>>> Where did you hear that Cingular's UMTS offering is faster than EVDO Rev
>>> A?
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net [mailto:talk-
>>>> bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Ajay Shekhawat
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:04 PM
>>>> To: talk at seattlewireless.net
>>>> Subject: mobile WiFi accesspoint?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone recommend a WiFi AP with a 3G uplink (preferably Cingular,
>>>> since its 3G is much faster than Sprint's EVDO).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ajay
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