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Id be wary of that virgin deal, especially here. Many times when a smaller company is buying bandwidth from a larger companies cell towers, theyre put on a lower priority level than the larger companies own customers. Hence more disconnects and lower throughput on cell towers that are loaded. I hear this is one of mobis issues right now.
And if i understand correctly theyre buying bandwidth from sprint as well.
Ive had sat net (from spacenet/starband) in the past. Its expensive, and the modems are buggy, and the techs are rude and generally uninformed. Im going to give it a shot again here soon, since theyre trying to fix many of these issues (i hear there is a software fix they can upload to my modem which will help with the pages being displayed incorrectly bug i was having). LTE is supposed to be network wide by 2013 on verizon, so ill moore than likely have a good connection within 3 years. Thats still a long time, and hopefully the cap wont be too restrictive. 5gb a month is crazy low.
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I would really suggest you folks look into an HTC EVO or and Samsung EPIC both on sprint both can get unlimited wifi tether for $30/month (in addition to you cell bill). I can get consistent 1.2meg down and 384-512k up with approx 250ms latency to lavanet speedtest. The latency is smooth enough that i can run a g.711 ulaw sip call across it with only minor jitter.
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just also thought i would ad this
On July 28, 2009, Sprint agreed to pay $483 million to purchase Virgin Mobile USA. The Federal Trade Commission later gave the go-ahead on the acquisition. [20] Virgin Mobile USA was originally conceived as a joint venture between Virgin Group and Sprint, and uses Sprint's cellular bandwidth in the United States. Sprint retained the Virgin Mobile name after the deal closed.
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Last weekend, I bought the Virgin mifi at Walmart for $150. Setup was easy, but speeds were very low. Aside from an occasional burst, speeds hovered between .10 and .28 mbit (download). Will be sticking with our AT&T laptop connect, which isn't great but was consistently testing better than the mifi.
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Yeah, at&t generally has the best reception around the island. I had an iphone for about a year, and no complaints with the service at all. The phone is another issue.
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Luv my iphone4, much improvement over original.
David
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I had a 3gs. My biggest gripe ended up being the touch screen kb. The lack of multitasking and flash were other issues. Got a droid 2 and ill never look at an apple phone again, unless of course they address the things i disliked about it, which they most likely will not.
And no, iphone 4's background processes are not true multitasking.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/techno....html?_r=1
The "abandoned" frequencies of analog tv are going live soon. I wonder if this means that the internet woes of us far from DSL, cable, or even 3g connections will be time limited?
Cheers,
Kirt
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I was on the mainland recently and was stopped by a guy at a stand for "Clear" wireless internet in a mall. He told me that Clear has downloads of 27Mbps (that's fast!) with no download limits. Only $40 a month. Available everywhere.
So it's available in Hawaii? "I'll check."
First he asked me if Hawaii is "left or right of the USA". Uh, left?
Then he brought up a coverage map that showed no 4G in Puna. It showed that there was 3G available everywhere, except in an oddly-shaped white section of HPP. "That must be some sort of lake" he said.
I assured him there's no 3G where I live, let alone 4G. Or a lake in HPP. But maybe one day.
