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je46290 · EVDO User Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 40 Location: West MI

on a side note about the 10s of people. I started recommending alltel evdo to some of the people in my area because there is practically nothing else but I stopped because I have had alltel for about 2 years and have slowly seen my speeds decrease. So if they arent gonna add capacity to the towers Im not gonna help them add customers. Its kinda bad when at 4am I consistently get 1600 down and during the day 400-600 and sometimes pretty sluggish response. Lately though it has been pretty decent, though I am still anxiously awaiting revA.

daverup · EVDO User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 48

More fun with Alltel's busted internet this morning.
It appears that something they are doing with their router configurations is causing some Apple Software Updates to fail. The failure is a download error which isn't present during a web browser or wget download, so it's pretty difficult to track down. None of my hardware or software has been changed recently, so Alltel's constant messing around is the most likely source.

whyzeman · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 105

Most definitely a tower issue. Right now, I'm in another city (a much larger city) and according to antennasearch.com, I'm 2.71 miles from the nearest Alltel tower. Quicklink Mobile is reporting 1.7 Mbps whereas at home I can get a few feet from the tower and not get even half that.

I know the "tens" part sounds weird to say, but it would have been a complete overexaggeration to say "hundreds".

This site (like most sites of this nature) is a gift and a curse in the fact that the people here are incredibly helpful but at the same time like 75% of the topics are either complaints or problems and most of the people I told of EVDO in general think that for the cost the risk of trouble is too high.