Verizon has service in the middle of nowhere.

james_the_composer · EVDO User Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 33

I live in a very rural area up in the adirondack mountains/upstate new york.

For 8 years I have wanted some form of broadband for my home here and have not been able to get any service of any kind, whether it be ISDN, DSL, Fixed Wi-Fi, or Cable.

I found that Sprint had a signal in town, so I thought I would try it out. It turns out I was running on 1xrtt speeds. (144kbps down, 100kbps up, 1300ms latency).

I terminated my account with Sprint immidiatly and found that I was easily in range of the Verizon broadband network. I've tried it out and the service so far is amazing.

The cradlepoint ctr-350 works wonderfully and was extremely easy to set up, (less than 10 minutes?) even though I had a bit of trouble getting used to the configuration at first.

I have already Voice Chatted and used Youtube and am at about 150MB for my first day (in about 6 hours of internet time, and that includes 2 other people browsing as well).

With a 200ms latency, I'll finally be able to try out Xbox Live.

Thanks 3gstore! Smile

onedavester · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Is this tower one of those "Frankenpines" or towers disguised as giant pine trees in the Adirondacks?

james_the_composer · EVDO User Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 33

It's a tower disguised as a giant pine tree I'm pretty sure, actually.

If sprint ever does set up another tower in my area, though, I would probably switch to their service. Until that time comes, I'm with a stricter network.

Redford · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

hi James, I'm from Saranac Lake and am trying to set up EVDO for my home network.

Where in the ADk's are you exactly?

rusher · EVDO User Joined: 18 Dec 2008 Posts: 41

what kinda antenna are u using to achieve your low ping?

EDIT: sounds very good im happy for you man
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