[olug] Bandwidth: Cox, Sprint, Verizon

[DYNATRON tech]

10$/GB...no thanks.
don't care how fast it is.
On Feb 23, 2012 11:50 AM, "Sean Sinclair" <seanfsinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sprint 4g hasn't happened anywhere that's useful to us in Omaha, yet.
> Sprint 4g is only available in major cities right now. So yeah the
> verizon 4g makes Sprint's 3g seem like dialup. I believe that the price
> of a sprint 3g/4g mifi or usb card is $50/ month and the hotspot
> function on your droid is $30/month unless you had alread downloaded the
> easytether app and bought it for the droid in which case internet would
> be free.
>
> Sean
>
>  On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 08:16 -0600, Jay Hannah wrote:
> > Yesterday my primary Internet died. I tried to fall back on Sprint 3G
> (HTC Evo hotspot) and I can't stand it any more. (Sprint 4G is a joke that
> isn't funny any more.)
> >
> > So I went out and bought a Verizon MiFi 4G hotspot card. Love it!
> >
> > Below, some speed tests. My results:
> >
> > - Cox cable modem (land line) is 5X faster than Verizon 4G (mobile).
> > - Verizon 4G (mobile) is 15X faster than Sprint 3G.
> >
> > Keystroke wise: My new MiFi feels like land line. I can ssh to Linux
> servers and work in vi quite happily. From "anywhere."  :)  Sprint 3G was
> always painful at best.
> >
> > Ping times to Google on MiFi are about the same as Cox cable modem.
> >
> > Total transfer cap: MiFi is $50/month for 5GB/month, or $80/month for
> 10GB/month. Sprint has no transfer cap. I don't know the equivalent pricing
> at Sprint.
> >
> > I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > j
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> >    Choose a location: Chicago, IL
> >
> > Cox cable modem (land line)
> >    Download Speed: 7759 kbps (969.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 4239 kbps (529.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    Download Speed: 8829 kbps (1103.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 4334 kbps (541.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    Download Speed: 8411 kbps (1051.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 4388 kbps (548.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> > Verizon Mifi 4G (mobile)
> >    Download Speed: 1014 kbps (126.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 7354 kbps (919.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    Download Speed: 2816 kbps (352 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 5561 kbps (695.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    Download Speed: 1189 kbps (148.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 3589 kbps (448.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> > Sprint HTC Evo 3G (mobile)
> >    Download Speed: 92 kbps (11.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 83 kbps (10.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    Download Speed: 72 kbps (9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >    Upload Speed: 103 kbps (12.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> >
> >    ... I am not patient enough to run this test again.   :)
> >
> >
> >
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