Alltel EVDO speed drops 10x everyday at 5:30pm

TMayhugh

I live in Florence, SC and Alltel is the only EVDO in town. Speeds are very good until 5:30pm. Around 600-800k down. However, they drop to 50-80k then. Connection manager still reports an EVDO connection but speed drops 10x. Why???? I am not sure when it returns but not before 10:00pm. By 6:30am it is back to 600-800K.

Frustrated user,
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Tim Mayhugh

Bigdave · EVDO Addict Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 1068

Sounds like peak usage on a limited amount of bandwidth. In my area it slows down a good but too around that time. It's just that I average around 1.5Mbps and then it drops to the 900 kbps range. It should improve as they build out the system further.