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Norm Katuna
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Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:
Verizon Wireless Broadband for notebooks |
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I've always thought this was the broadband group, so even though this isn't
cable or DSL it's still a broadband question.
If this doesn't go here, then please direct me to the right place.
Okay.
I'm getting a notebook computer and was looking at wireless internet and found
that Verizon has a plan called National unlimited Broadband.
But, looking at some of their notes, it looks like it isn't unlimited at all.
They have in their TOS that you can't do any sustained jpeg downloads, or music
downloads or anything bandwidth intensive. Uh, how can the plan be unlimited.
I know that the coverage areas are not many now, but that seems to be expanding
and there is coverage in my area.
It's $80 a month, but since I work for the Post Office I think we get a 25%
discount.
So, any comments or advice on this?
Thanks for any info.
Norm K |
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Karyn Guilmore
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Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:48 am Post subject:
Re: Verizon Wireless Broadband for notebooks |
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Norm Katuna wrote:
| Quote: | I've always thought this was the broadband group, so even though this isn't
cable or DSL it's still a broadband question.
If this doesn't go here, then please direct me to the right place.
... snip ...
Norm K
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Norm,
I would suggest reposting to comp.dcom.xdsl and/or posting a message
at the Verizon forum of DSLReports: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ilec,vz
HTH,
Karyn |
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Cyrus Afzali
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Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:02 am Post subject:
Re: Verizon Wireless Broadband for notebooks |
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:38:08 -0800, Norm Katuna
<nk001atoperamaildotcom@> wrote:
| Quote: | I've always thought this was the broadband group, so even though this isn't
cable or DSL it's still a broadband question.
If this doesn't go here, then please direct me to the right place.
Okay.
I'm getting a notebook computer and was looking at wireless internet and found
that Verizon has a plan called National unlimited Broadband.
But, looking at some of their notes, it looks like it isn't unlimited at all.
They have in their TOS that you can't do any sustained jpeg downloads, or music
downloads or anything bandwidth intensive. Uh, how can the plan be unlimited.
I know that the coverage areas are not many now, but that seems to be expanding
and there is coverage in my area.
It's $80 a month, but since I work for the Post Office I think we get a 25%
discount.
So, any comments or advice on this?
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Broadband can be a vague term in the sense that it often just means an
accelerated speed compared to what was in place in the prior
generation of technology. In the case of wireless Internet access, it
was traditionally about 30K or thereabouts. So to Verizon Wireless'
marketing folks, their current rates on the new network may indeed
qualify.
Also, it's well known that you won't have a decent experience
streaming audio/video, etc. on that type of network connection. You'll
find the speed reacts more in "burst" fashion than consistent speed
delivery.
The use of "unlimited" was hashed out a lot when dial-up was all there
was and some took that to mean they could stay connected for hours,
even if they had no intent of actively using the Internet. Claims
brought by customers that unlimited was incorrectly used never went
anywhere **unless** the issue was busy signals, which plagued AOL
extensively when it stopped outsourcing most of its connectivity and
built its own dial-up network. |
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