New V620 - Lousy service at Denver Airport

dp · Guest

Got a V620 yesterday before heading on the road. Did a quick test in Philly and Broadband was good. Now in Denver (for 3 hrs) and nationwide is performing worse than Quick 2 Net. Yikes. Isn't this for travellers? Can't the get the Denver Airport - one of the highest volume hubs - set up Broadband. And why is Nationwide so horrible here? (2-3 bars). Is it normal that Quick2 is faster (currently downloading Dormant Killer at a wopping 2.3k).

- DPAM

Richard Carver · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

I ran into the same thing in DC. I didn't think about it until I got back home but had I "refreshed networks", I wonder if it would have added the DC towers to my setup?

I'm gointg to Newark Tuesday and I'll try it as is and then refresh networks to see if it makes any difference, logically, it should.

Michael · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

It is a good idea to update your PRL before traveling to a new area, more info here:

PRL Update Info
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Polaro · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta

Chicago airport - worked great.
Atlanta - sucked.
St. Louis - sucked.

Richard Carver · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm iat the Short Hills Hilton and just got 679/78, not bad. I love EVDO! Just crawl off the plane anf start surfing. Smile

Polaro · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: Atlanta better this week

Ok, now Atlanta airport is much better this week. 3 bars broadband.

dnigrin · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 12

I also had very crappy service in Reagan National airport in D.C. - what's funny is that I have a 620 card, and I was getting like 20k download speed, but a guy sitting *right next to me* who had the older version card (with the flip up antenna), was getting like 300-400k d/l speeds! Both of us were testing against the same test site (dslreports.com).

Go figure!

dnigrin · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 12

Oh, and I forgo to mention that I had refreshed my networks, etc.. before leaving home....

Polaro

How do you do an update if all you have is the Verizon AccessManager? I saw the destructions for the older piece of software, but not this new applications that ships with the V620

Michael · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

You can find directions to update the PRL for Mobile Connection Manager, VZAccess and Mac OS X drivers, over on this page:

Directions to Update your PRL
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