I Just Tripled My Connection Speed!

[Tigeress]

Originally posted by rpm
After digging thru the "fine print" (which BTW was never mentioned or signed by me) seems AT&T has their butt covered.
link

Well frack.

How about something like this...

http://b2b.vzw.com/broadband/bbapccard.html

TIGERESS

[Maverick]

If you need something for gaming satellite won't cut it but if you just want decent high speed internet access then it's the way to go for places out in the boonies away from anything better than slow dial up.

[CHECKERS]

I had the same BS/Dialup only, no cable, no DSL  problem with where my home is located .

 You may want to go to DSL Reports , Try doing a search for a wireless ISP .
 I did and found an ISP located in Lancaster, CA ( an hours drive from my home ) .

   I connect at  a   T 1.5 up and down . pings are usually around
20/50 ms to AH servers ... and it cost less than than the dialup and extra phone did. ( alot less) .
 
 All that was available here at Crystalaire was dialup,  ( AT&T phone service) dead slow dialup , connecting @ 26Kbs ...... It sucked .


 One other thing I used to use before DSL and cable internet, when I Live at Crestline, Ca was what was called "shotgun" dial up or dual modems
using shotgunning in my networking . It requires two seprate phone lines.
 I only used it early in the morning or late at night, because it tied up
both my phones . I used to connect at 100Kbs total with it .

   It wasn't rocket science , but it worked ....

  Regards,
 Bob

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by rpm
There has to be more to that story. I have an unlimited data usage plan, how would a provider know what the data was used for?

It is far far easier than you might think. I'm a network security guy, we can peer into your traffic and see what sort of applications you're running, from simple things to inspecting your web browser agent (for example if it comes back IE6 then we know you're on a pc) to more advanced signatures to identify p2p applications and games.

One product I deal with for telcos is this: http://www.allot.com  . Now I now for a fact AT&T use this product (cos we sell em to the local NZ guys). This box would tell them all they needed to know about your activities.

Scared yet?

[68Wooley]

2 or 2.5G GSM has a theoretical max data rate of 470ish kbit/s using EDGE. Reality will be about half that. If you are in an area where AT+T / Cingular have rolled out 3G, you could - theoretically - see downloads as high as 7.2MBits/s. In reality it would be somewhere around 1MBit/s.

Whilst your wireless connection may very well be more stable than your dial up, the 10MB connection its reporting is most likely the speed of the connection between your computer and the PDA - not the rate at which the PDA is connecting to the internet.

As an example, my computer currently reports its connected at 1000Mbps - but that's just the rate between it and the router. The router is connected to the internet at something like 15Mbps.

Wooley.