USB727 + IBM Thinkpad R61i + Verizon + 3GStore = Win!

plunk10 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 10

First I want to thank everyone here with their assistance and answers to the questions I had in regards to EVDO and comparison of different modems and types (USB vs. ExpressCard, etc.)

I have friends that live in a great country area that has one major unfortunate problem. No broadband capability through cable, DSL, or FIOS. However, they live within a couple miles of a nice big cell phone tower. Smile

That is where EVDO and 3Gstore came into play. Being in IT, I had never really heard of the technology offered, but my friends were looking for ANYTHING that could be better than dialup internet. So I decided to suggest a laptop for them to buy, and advise them to give EVDO a shot. As it turns out, they don't appear to need a booster antenna, and the laptop with the USB727 (and a short USB extension cable) works wonderfully at all areas inside the house. On the speedtest website I was getting downloads of anywhere from 1500KB to 2100KB while uploading at around 500K. It may not be cable speeds, but its a far cry from dialup which in their case was never even close to 56K or even 28.8.

Thanks again 3GStore, and thanks to the members of this forum.