Verizon broadband options
I posted this on the great Loop list, but my intent was to send it here
alone - duh.
As a result of our recent run up and back to the northern portions of the
Tennessee River, we have become Verizon people.
For boating purposes, I am trying to decide whether to go "tethered" to my
cell phone or just get an air card for my laptop. Without all the external
additions such as antennas and amp, which will be faster and which will have
longer range?
Panama City now has Verizon Broadband, and I have an "EV" signal on my phone
with two bars at my desktop in the house.
I am wondering how this "EVII" signal's speed compares to the DSL Lite I use
in the house because ideally I could dump DSL and use Verizon afloat and
ashore with some sort of adapter into my desktop's hub.
Rich:
Go to http://infospeed.verizon.net/ and you can run a speed test on both
sources. Another site that does this is
http://performance.toast.net/
Frank Burrows
I got the Verizon Aircard with the internal antenna (they sell one with
an external antenna)and I'm very happy with it. I have used it all
along the Eastern shore of Lake Ontario within eyesight of land and
found very few places where it didn't work well.
Dave Hart
Port Ontario NY
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I used my Verrizon E815 Motorola phone tethered and it worked great. I
get 250K when I have EVDO signal and half that otherwise.
It does not work in Maine nor anywhere in Canada that I travelled.
I have tried an aircard which is much more convenient and you can have
it on 24/7 without having to charge the phone like you need to do when
tethered.
Only other trade off is the aircard requires a 2 year commitment with
one or two opportunities to put it on vacation per year for up to 90
days ????
The Teathered option requires you use VCAST service which is an extra
15/month in order to get unlimited minutes but you can turn the data
service ff and on at will. There will be arguments on line about
whether VCAST is needed but I went right to the corporate level with
VZ and it is needed for sure otherwise you are using your plan
minutes. Many of the serivice reps are confused over this issue.
Tethered = $60 + 15 per month no commitment
Aircard = $60 per month with 2 year total commitment
With all the experiences out there I am sure someone will come on and
share a different experience but this relates my experience over 9
months of cruising.
On 12/8/06, Frank Burrows fburrows@mail.com wrote:
Rich:
Go to http://infospeed.verizon.net/ and you can run a speed test on both
sources. Another site that does this is
http://performance.toast.net/
Frank Burrows
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Rich,
While boat hunting along the gulf coast and now waiting for it's refit in
Mobile over the next few months, I found myself in a small apt with no
internet service, OK, humans can last 12 min w/o air, 3 days w/o water,
etc., but have not seen the charts on w/o internet service. Based on List
traffic on air card solution, I ran - auto to loaded to be fast enough - to
the Verizon store and grabbed an air card. Now, having recovered in the
caring arms of the Admiral and the world once again rightfully returned to
my laptop, I find the calm of connectedness washing over me like a tropical
Padre Island breeze in winter, miss it so.
On the Hard in Mobile,
stephen_offutt@sbcglobal.net
------Original Message-----
-From: trawlers-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com [mailto:trawlers-
-and-trawlering-bounces@lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of Rich Gano
-Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:31 AM
-To: Trawlers-and-Trawlering
-Subject: T&T: Verizon broadband options
-I posted this on the great Loop list, but my intent was to send it here
-alone - duh.
-As a result of our recent run up and back to the northern portions of the
-Tennessee River, we have become Verizon people.
-For boating purposes, I am trying to decide whether to go "tethered" to my
-cell phone or just get an air card for my laptop. Without all the external
-additions such as antennas and amp, which will be faster and which will
-have
-longer range?
-Panama City now has Verizon Broadband, and I have an "EV" signal on my
-phone
-with two bars at my desktop in the house.
-I am wondering how this "EVII" signal's speed compares to the DSL Lite I
-use
-in the house because ideally I could dump DSL and use Verizon afloat and
-ashore with some sort of adapter into my desktop's hub.
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