[olug] Bandwidth: Cox, Sprint, Verizon

[Sean Sinclair]

Sprint 4g hasn't happened anywhere that's useful to us in Omaha, yet.
Sprint 4g is only available in major cities right now. So yeah the
verizon 4g makes Sprint's 3g seem like dialup. I believe that the price
of a sprint 3g/4g mifi or usb card is $50/ month and the hotspot
function on your droid is $30/month unless you had alread downloaded the
easytether app and bought it for the droid in which case internet would
be free.

Sean

 On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 08:16 -0600, Jay Hannah wrote:
> Yesterday my primary Internet died. I tried to fall back on Sprint 3G (HTC Evo hotspot) and I can't stand it any more. (Sprint 4G is a joke that isn't funny any more.)
> 
> So I went out and bought a Verizon MiFi 4G hotspot card. Love it!
> 
> Below, some speed tests. My results:
> 
> - Cox cable modem (land line) is 5X faster than Verizon 4G (mobile).
> - Verizon 4G (mobile) is 15X faster than Sprint 3G.
> 
> Keystroke wise: My new MiFi feels like land line. I can ssh to Linux servers and work in vi quite happily. From "anywhere."  :)  Sprint 3G was always painful at best.
> 
> Ping times to Google on MiFi are about the same as Cox cable modem. 
> 
> Total transfer cap: MiFi is $50/month for 5GB/month, or $80/month for 10GB/month. Sprint has no transfer cap. I don't know the equivalent pricing at Sprint.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> j
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
>    Choose a location: Chicago, IL
> 
> Cox cable modem (land line)
>    Download Speed: 7759 kbps (969.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 4239 kbps (529.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    Download Speed: 8829 kbps (1103.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 4334 kbps (541.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    Download Speed: 8411 kbps (1051.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 4388 kbps (548.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
> Verizon Mifi 4G (mobile)
>    Download Speed: 1014 kbps (126.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 7354 kbps (919.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    Download Speed: 2816 kbps (352 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 5561 kbps (695.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    Download Speed: 1189 kbps (148.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 3589 kbps (448.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
> Sprint HTC Evo 3G (mobile)
>    Download Speed: 92 kbps (11.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 83 kbps (10.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    Download Speed: 72 kbps (9 KB/sec transfer rate)
>    Upload Speed: 103 kbps (12.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> 
>    ... I am not patient enough to run this test again.   :)
> 
> 
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