January 16, 2006
Sprint EVDO
Using this for about a week now. Just took it roundtrip to DC on the Acela train as well.
Fast! Claims about 1Mbps up and down most of the time. And the bandwidth tests online seem to substantiate it.
Pretty great for web browsing and email. The images get slightly compressed (which is fine with me - I wish they had that as an option at home on my cable broadband actually).
Tried to stream music from Yahoo! (per the above image), and boy that was terrible. Was worse than being on dial-up. Of course, I didn't tell Y!'s music engine to downshift the bitrates. Maybe that would improve the quality. But it kept buffering and then losing synch. Oh well. But I'm on the way to not needing cable broadband anymore...watch out you DSL vs. Cable myopics. The nuclear option is starting to hit: wireless broadband. And that's even without WiMAX on the scene.
