Novatel V620

Polaro · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject: Atlanta V620

Well, I'm not as happy a camper as most of the people who have posted here. I LOVE this concept, if I can get it to work consitently. I have had the V620 for exactly 15 days. It worked well in Chicago, but was a pain in St. Louis and Atlanta, even though I was within the supposed coverage area. It worked, but the performance is very erratic: fast sometimes, painfully slow others. Tests show anywhere from 20KBPS to 500 KBPS...depending on when I test in the same spot.

I took the modem back yesterday and exchanged it for another modem to see if I just had a flaky unit. The performance is the same in Atlanta.

I was hoping to add a booster antenna to see if it helped, but there aren't any that I can find. (Any help here?) Rolling Eyes

It has a port to add one, just no idea where to get it.

One thing I noticed is that I can start out with 2 bars in Broadband and then it fluctuates to one bar and no bars and often drops down to the slower Nationalaccess. This seems to be wrong, especially since I am sitting still! Are they having network issues?

Oh, it seems Verizon stores do have the card in stock, if you make them actually get off their butts to look. Every time I ask about this card they tell me they never heard of it. When I asked them to check they have found it in stock both times.

CBD1 · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem in Rockwall Texas, where the damned card would switch from broadband to NA back and fourth and the service was really poor. I called Verizon tech support and explained the issue and the tech laughed and said that he'd heard of this before and wished there was a way to set the V620 card software to EVDO or RTT, but that there wasn't at this time. It may be that if enough users complain about the lack of this feature, they may come around in future releases. I doubt it, but one can hope.

Michael · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

For those having this problem, how many bar coverage, or better yet, what is your EVDO signal strength?

If you are in a 1 - 2 bar EVDO, it may be that the V620 is switching to the stronger 1xRTT signal.

I will guess, that you do not see this problem when in a real strong EVDO (4 bar) coverage area.
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Richard Carver · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

Erratic behavior can be caused by the Venturi software, I never use it just too flakey. Try it a few days without it.

Michael · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject:

I would agree that the Venturi Compression seems to hurt more than it helps. About the only thing it is really good at, is giving false benchmark results.
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ktm_scott · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:56 am Post subject:

[quote="CBD1"]I had the same problem in Rockwall Texas, quote]

[snip]

I live in Rockwall and get really good service on my 5220.
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CBD1 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject:

? Really? this was up at the new Snuffer's that was was having that issue. In addition, while traveling Ridge Road through town, and all the way out 205 to Lavon, I get nothing but 1xRTT on the V620

GreatInca · EVDO Newbie Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 9

Venturi Sux. It is an over agressive proxy cacher. It will only provide benfit for the text portion of web pages that are hosted on a web server that doesn't use http-gzip compression.

kittyv · EVDO User Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 31