Washington DC EVDO

Richard Carver · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: Washington DC EVDO

OK, about two bars at the Willard on Pennsylvania Ave. It was EVDO but only tested at 115kb down or so but usage was not bad, just about twice dialup but fairly consistent. Never tried the 'burbs.

mikev · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:53 pm Post subject:

Western DC suburb in Northern VA... Dulles Town Center, Sterling VA...

4 bars of signal (sorry, didn't check RSSI when I had it plugged into my Windows laptop), but running a speed test on my Powerbook (which consistently speed tests faster than Windows), I got 675k down, ~100k up. It peaked at times up to 715-720kbit/sec.

illiterate · EVDO User Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 97

that 115 could just as easily have been 1xrtt. Sure it was evdo?

mikev · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

Well... I just blew that previous speed test from Sterling away at work in Herndon... My office building is right across Rt. 28 from the Dulles Airport tank farm (which is now obscured at street level by the new sound wall), and from my interior office, I've clocked over 1Mbit/sec! I first realized it when downloading a rather large file, then followed it up with a speed test to formalize the result.

When running on my Windows laptop, it has showed two bars in the past, though that's a couple weeks ago. While I don't think that would've changed, it's certainly possible.

Michael · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

It is very sweet when you hit that above 1mb download speed.

I once got 1926K download, on a brand new tower, the day it went live (happened to be near my house), more info here:

http://www.evdoforums.com/about284.html
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Richard Carver · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:52 am Post subject:

rtfm · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: Is all VZ 850?

A friend is in the data wasteland of zip 20616 & gets poor VZW coverage, at least at ground level. (HEAVY tree cover...) Looking at ToddTroutman's antenna brings up hope, however.

But is all VZ EVDO at 850 Mhz?

What % of the DC VZ cellsites have EVDO?

mikev · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:11 am Post subject: Re: Is all VZ 850?

brendanhoar · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 140

I've been using Verizon BroadbandAccess for over a month now in my apartment in Arlington, VA. Since yesterday, I've noticed that while I connect at BroadbandAccess every time, shortly thereafter it switches down to NationalAccess and stays there.

Anyone else in the DC area seeing similar issues?

-brendan

Richard Carver

brendanhoar · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 140

I haven't reupped at the lower $60 yet and, as I said, I do connect with Broadbandaccess. Looks like the hopping down to NationalAccess has stopped for know <knock on wood>, I think.

-brendan