Verizon EVDO Rev A Coverage Sightings

jon8105 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 147

Oh yeah, much better! Good info Michael.

sweisscwa · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: Rev A in NYC @ Penn Station

Using my Verizon 595 card in Penn Station on Amtrak on Wed Jan 03 - I can report that Rev A is operational in Penn Station and in parts (not all) of the Hudson River Tunnel heading to Newark.

accutronman · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

Rev. A is active in Jacksonville, FL at least at the airport where VZW first rolled out Rev. 0 for the area.

Alex · Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1893

DFW Airport, Gate B29
(heading to MacWorld!)

4bars
217ms latency

PowerBook G4
Sierra AC595

Alex · Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1893

San Francisco SFO Airport
Baggage Claim #4/5
(waiting for Mike to arrive)

4Bars

!!!!!

PowerBook G4
Sierra ac595

Semi75 · EVDO Junkie Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 230

Information gained from a Vz user, not verified first hand

New KY areas including Lexington and Frankfort apparently have Rev A EVDO. I am a Sprint Customer and was unable to verify this personally but gained the information from a friend who recently signed up for a plan with the 595. This makes sense as the area was just switched to EVDO offically around Christmas and follows Michael's logic of the new Vz areas being Rev A. I can recieve a nice strong ReV A roaming signal on my Sprint card but cannot connect, I guess I know what it is now.

Sorry no speed/latency test available.

accutronman · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 16

I'm in Chicago on business and decided to try speeds downtown on LaSalle. I'm surprised, however, that the speeds aren't faster.

Alex · Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1893

MacWorld Booth 304
Moscone Center, San Francisco 94104

2 Bars
164ms

(with just 2 bars! wait until i unpack the antennas!)

dfumento · EVDO Newbie Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 9

Manhattan, New York City, 110th & Broadway near Columbia University, Zip 10025

Pinging www.columbia.akadns.net [128.59.48.24] with 32 byte

Reply from 128.59.48.24: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=109
Reply from 128.59.48.24: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=109
Reply from 128.59.48.24: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=109
Reply from 128.59.48.24: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=109

Ping statistics for 128.59.48.24:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 59ms, Maximum = 76ms, Average = 70ms

3 Bars Rev A

It feels considerably faster than Rev 0.

You should install by downloading VZ Access Manager rev 6.0.6 from vzam.net to get the latest version of VZ Access Manager including a version that works with Vista.

I have a Lenovo/IBM laptop with a built-in EVDO Rev. 0 Sierra Wireless 5720 device. So first I wanted to take it out of service:

1. Turn off the built-in EVDO Rev 0. in BIOS under WAN
2. I uninstalled the Lenovo VZ Access Manager.
3. I deleted leftover files in c:\programs\sierra and c|programs\Verizon
4. Use regedit and delete the keys under software as well under Sierra, Verizon and Smith Micro [they wrote the VZ Access software]
5. Uninstall the 5720 from device manager under a) modems and b) usb devices.
6. Restart

ephemera · EVDO Newbie Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8

I don't have an actual sighting, because I don't have a Rev A card yet, but (for what it's worth) when I asked a seemingly knowledgable techie in my local Verizon storefront tonight, he looked up an email he'd received and said that it said that Rev A would be activated in Boston as of Dec. 31st, 2006.

They didn't have any cards in stock yet so he couldn't check, but he assumed that means that it's active.

dfumento · EVDO Newbie Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 9

I have been told that they are not yet shipping the cards to the retail stores nor can you purchase them through customer service. I had to purchase mine as an upgrade on-line only. Seems like a wrong thing to do to sell outdated hardware in the stores and through customer service.

Alex · Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1893

Just a reminder to folks looking to buy a new Verizon Rev-A Sierra AC595 card with service... we have them for less than Verizon does! $69.99 after a rebate - order yours here:

http://booster-antenna.com/verizon/

ephemera · EVDO Newbie Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8

> Seems like a wrong thing to do to sell outdated hardware in the stores and through customer service.

As they say in [i]Casablanca[/i], I am shocked, shocked to hear that Verizon might not be doing the right thing.

But seriously, when you say

> I had to purchase mine as an upgrade on-line only

what does "upgrade" mean to them? I just bought a Kyocera 650 about ten months ago, and I'm not really dying to pay full price and reset the clock to a new two year contract, but I'm assuming that's what I'll have to do. Would you mind my asking what it ended up costing you?
Thanks.

Michael · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject:

Hello,

We are starting a new cool web site to help map out all the data in this thread (and others).

Please view http://EVDOmaps.com and if you posted some benchmarks to this thread, go ahead and add them to EVDOmaps.com, help us build a useful user based EVDO mapping tool.

Be sure to include your image links from your previous benchmarks on DSLReports and Speedtest.net
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dfumento · EVDO Newbie Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 9