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Atmega
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| bigb426ex wrote: | | I did a tracert and I'm definitely coming from Verizon and then it's routing to Alltel. |
Yes, I noticed this as well on a recent trace route I ran "64.sub-66-174-176.myvzw.com". This is another loop that will cause some latency but still much better then EVDO.
Also I just tried to switch to Mobile IP Only and oddly was able to connect. I am not sure if this will change anything in it but I am hoping it will get past the 12 hour disconnect which I noticed is still in effect on Verizon towers. |
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coolken84
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Well that worked for me - full bar RevA signal -51dbm signal and d/l of ~1400 and upload of ~500 - Thanks Guys! |
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pioneer_56
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Joined: 22 Apr 2008
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Location: Northern Michigan
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Mobile ip preferred and only both work for me, if I didn't say that before. I don't know what the difference is between them but whatever it works right? 
Now if I could get 3-4 bars instead of 2-3 I bet it would improve my speeds even more. |
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bigb426ex
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Location: Kansas City, MO
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Atmega wrote: |
Also I just tried to switch to Mobile IP Only and oddly was able to connect. I am not sure if this will change anything in it but I am hoping it will get past the 12 hour disconnect which I noticed is still in effect on Verizon towers. |
Unfortunately I still get the 12 hour disconnect with it going to Verizon but now I took off my timer on my KR2 since at first it didn't know how to respond to the disconnect but now it will reconnect the UM150 just fine now as looking in the logs. |
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Atmega
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yea, woke up this morning and noticed the timer had been restart so it did disconnect at 12 hours but still rev-a is a big improvement.
I also noticed my speeds don't change much. On my older Alltel EVDO tower they would really change depending on tower usage but on this new Verizon one I did some speedtests at 4 AM yesterday and very little difference then at noon. |
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Capt.Dan
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Joined: 04 Jul 2006
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Location: Arizona
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Hum...Went to corolada.com and it shows the latest as 40042 and my QL shows 40043??? |
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Atmega
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Capt.Dan wrote: | | Hum...Went to corolada.com and it shows the latest as 40042 and my QL shows 40043??? |
Yes, seems as if Corolada is a little slow on their updating. I remember my QL showed 40042 before I updated to Verizon. I wonder if they pushed a new PRL for Alltel subscribers to use Verizon towers, anyone know? |
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2toad
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, tried it this morning and so far I am very impressed with Verizon. With Alltel I was struggling to get above 500k. Now...well...I'm very happy.
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pioneer_56
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Joined: 22 Apr 2008
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Location: Northern Michigan
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| 40042 is for divested areas and 40043 is for non-divested areas. That is the difference. Neither is a conversion over to Verizon prls to use their towers. We are still waiting for Verizon to bring us Alltel people over to their network. Unless you do the prl swap like I have done and roam on Verizon for now. |
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Dragonsla
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Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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Location: United States
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| 2toad wrote: | Wow, tried it this morning and so far I am very impressed with Verizon. With Alltel I was struggling to get above 500k. Now...well...I'm very happy.
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isn't 500kbps like 50 kB/sec? thats lower than 56k.... |
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Atmega
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Dragonsla wrote: | | 2toad wrote: | Wow, tried it this morning and so far I am very impressed with Verizon. With Alltel I was struggling to get above 500k. Now...well...I'm very happy.
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isn't 500kbps like 50 kB/sec? thats lower than 56k.... |
No, that is incorrect. The typical speed test is measured in kilobits where a IE/Firefox download is normally in kilobytes.
Dial-up at 56kbps (kilobits) is roughly a 7 kB/s download
500 kbps (kilobits) is about 62.5 kB/s download
I usually do all my converts using Google's build in calculator.
http://www.google.com/search?q=500+kilobits+to+kilobytes |
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BlueRidge1985
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Well this worked for me! I went from about 200k down and 30k up to 1.5 MB down a 250k up at 10:00 P.M. |
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Dragonsla
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Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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Location: United States
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| BlueRidge1985 wrote: | | Well this worked for me! I went from about 200k down and 30k up to 1.5 MB down a 250k up at 10:00 P.M. |
1.5MB meaning megabyte or megabit...
and thanks atmega I didn't realize dial up was THAT slow...  |
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BlueRidge1985
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| BlueRidge1985 wrote: | Well this worked for me! I went from about 200kb/s down and 30kb/s up to 1.5 MB down a 250kb/s up at 10:00
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One hour later.....
and the final test at 12:00 PM
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chuckd
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Joined: 06 Dec 2008
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Location: Newaygo, MI - 49337
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Well I tried this too and got it to work no problem....
Unfortunatley I was only able to pick up a 1Xrtt signal (using both a directional and nondirectional antenna).
I guess when if finally warms up here in Michigan a little bit I will try and go on the roof and move the antenna around a but and see if I can pick up a better Verizon signal. |
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