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  1. #1
    Looking at getting a PC Card to use in the Baltimore, MD area. Anyone
    have experiences there?

    Sprint is offering a plan through a corporate discount... which ends up
    going through the bluefish.net site. The plan is unlimited data for
    $49.99 (which sounds like a SERO) but I would also receive the NVP of
    25% on that so it would take the plan down to $37.49. Not too bad IMO.

    My dilemma is... knowing that Rev A is coming out soon... and not
    knowing when the offer for this plan is going to end... would you go
    for the current plan without a Rev A card... or wait it out and end up
    paying more per month for the plan with a faster speed? Typical net
    usage is surfing, email, some music streaming videos from Yahoo!...
    nothing out of the ordinary.

    Thoughts on the card to get as well? It seems that people say they
    prefer the Sierra Wirelesss card, but looking at actual speeds
    clocked... it seems that one of the other two may be a better choice?




    See More: EVDO vs EVDO Rev A




  2. #2
    Jim
    Guest

    Re: EVDO vs EVDO Rev A

    Before you make any decision, be sure that you will get the NVP
    discount. I highly doubt that you will. It was promised to me when I
    signed up, and needless to say it did not appear on the first bill so I
    called. I was told that NVP can not be applied to data plans!!!!

    There was a recent thread on sprintusers.com about this, and it seems to
    hold true. You can how ever get most of the other discounts, they did
    apply my 20% loyalty discount.

    So double check on the NVP before you make any deal.

    Jim

    jrr(at)nycap.rr.com

    [email protected] wrote:
    > Looking at getting a PC Card to use in the Baltimore, MD area. Anyone
    > have experiences there?
    >
    > Sprint is offering a plan through a corporate discount... which ends up
    > going through the bluefish.net site. The plan is unlimited data for
    > $49.99 (which sounds like a SERO) but I would also receive the NVP of
    > 25% on that so it would take the plan down to $37.49. Not too bad IMO.
    >
    > My dilemma is... knowing that Rev A is coming out soon... and not
    > knowing when the offer for this plan is going to end... would you go
    > for the current plan without a Rev A card... or wait it out and end up
    > paying more per month for the plan with a faster speed? Typical net
    > usage is surfing, email, some music streaming videos from Yahoo!...
    > nothing out of the ordinary.
    >
    > Thoughts on the card to get as well? It seems that people say they
    > prefer the Sierra Wirelesss card, but looking at actual speeds
    > clocked... it seems that one of the other two may be a better choice?
    >




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    Re: EVDO vs EVDO Rev A

    Sorry about the info not being in columns... but it seems to be
    applying the NVP already right on the site... even before you check
    out.

    What card do/did you use? What area are you in? Speeds?

    Thanks for your suggestion!


    Sprint Data Plans for EVDO Cards
    Retail Cost Your Cost Data Allowed Additional Data / Charges
    Agreement

    $80.00 $60.00 Unlimited Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls
    made on PCS Connection Cards' with voice capability 1 Year



    $60.00 $45.00 40 MB $.02 per kilobyte charge over 40 MB limit;
    Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls made on PCS Connection Cards'
    with voice capability 1 Year



    $40.00 $30.00 20 MB $.02 per kilobyte charge over 20 MB limit;
    Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls made on PCS Connection Cards'
    with voice capability 1 Year



    $49.99 $37.49 Unlimited Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls
    made on PCS Connection Cards' with voice capability 1 Year



    Jim wrote:
    > Before you make any decision, be sure that you will get the NVP
    > discount. I highly doubt that you will. It was promised to me when I
    > signed up, and needless to say it did not appear on the first bill so I
    > called. I was told that NVP can not be applied to data plans!!!!
    >
    > There was a recent thread on sprintusers.com about this, and it seems to
    > hold true. You can how ever get most of the other discounts, they did
    > apply my 20% loyalty discount.
    >
    > So double check on the NVP before you make any deal.
    >
    > Jim
    >
    > jrr(at)nycap.rr.com
    >
    > [email protected] wrote:
    > > Looking at getting a PC Card to use in the Baltimore, MD area. Anyone
    > > have experiences there?
    > >
    > > Sprint is offering a plan through a corporate discount... which ends up
    > > going through the bluefish.net site. The plan is unlimited data for
    > > $49.99 (which sounds like a SERO) but I would also receive the NVP of
    > > 25% on that so it would take the plan down to $37.49. Not too bad IMO.
    > >
    > > My dilemma is... knowing that Rev A is coming out soon... and not
    > > knowing when the offer for this plan is going to end... would you go
    > > for the current plan without a Rev A card... or wait it out and end up
    > > paying more per month for the plan with a faster speed? Typical net
    > > usage is surfing, email, some music streaming videos from Yahoo!...
    > > nothing out of the ordinary.
    > >
    > > Thoughts on the card to get as well? It seems that people say they
    > > prefer the Sierra Wirelesss card, but looking at actual speeds
    > > clocked... it seems that one of the other two may be a better choice?
    > >





  4. #4
    Jim
    Guest

    Re: EVDO vs EVDO Rev A

    What site were you on?

    I'm using the Sierra 580 aircard. I'm in the Albany, NY area and we
    don't have the EV-DO,,,,,,YET. I'm still waiting. SPCS sold me the
    service, then told me after I received the card that it's not available
    in this area yet.



    [email protected] wrote:

    > Sorry about the info not being in columns... but it seems to be
    > applying the NVP already right on the site... even before you check
    > out.
    >
    > What card do/did you use? What area are you in? Speeds?
    >
    > Thanks for your suggestion!
    >
    >
    > Sprint Data Plans for EVDO Cards
    > Retail Cost Your Cost Data Allowed Additional Data / Charges
    > Agreement
    >
    > $80.00 $60.00 Unlimited Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls
    > made on PCS Connection Cards' with voice capability 1 Year
    >
    >
    >
    > $60.00 $45.00 40 MB $.02 per kilobyte charge over 40 MB limit;
    > Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls made on PCS Connection Cards'
    > with voice capability 1 Year
    >
    >
    >
    > $40.00 $30.00 20 MB $.02 per kilobyte charge over 20 MB limit;
    > Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls made on PCS Connection Cards'
    > with voice capability 1 Year
    >
    >
    >
    > $49.99 $37.49 Unlimited Additional $0.20/minute charge for calls
    > made on PCS Connection Cards' with voice capability 1 Year
    >
    >
    >
    > Jim wrote:
    >
    >>Before you make any decision, be sure that you will get the NVP
    >>discount. I highly doubt that you will. It was promised to me when I
    >>signed up, and needless to say it did not appear on the first bill so I
    >>called. I was told that NVP can not be applied to data plans!!!!
    >>
    >>There was a recent thread on sprintusers.com about this, and it seems to
    >>hold true. You can how ever get most of the other discounts, they did
    >>apply my 20% loyalty discount.
    >>
    >>So double check on the NVP before you make any deal.
    >>
    >>Jim
    >>
    >>jrr(at)nycap.rr.com
    >>
    >>[email protected] wrote:
    >>
    >>>Looking at getting a PC Card to use in the Baltimore, MD area. Anyone
    >>>have experiences there?
    >>>
    >>>Sprint is offering a plan through a corporate discount... which ends up
    >>>going through the bluefish.net site. The plan is unlimited data for
    >>>$49.99 (which sounds like a SERO) but I would also receive the NVP of
    >>>25% on that so it would take the plan down to $37.49. Not too bad IMO.
    >>>
    >>>My dilemma is... knowing that Rev A is coming out soon... and not
    >>>knowing when the offer for this plan is going to end... would you go
    >>>for the current plan without a Rev A card... or wait it out and end up
    >>>paying more per month for the plan with a faster speed? Typical net
    >>>usage is surfing, email, some music streaming videos from Yahoo!...
    >>>nothing out of the ordinary.
    >>>
    >>>Thoughts on the card to get as well? It seems that people say they
    >>>prefer the Sierra Wirelesss card, but looking at actual speeds
    >>>clocked... it seems that one of the other two may be a better choice?
    >>>

    >
    >




  5. #5
    Glenn
    Guest

    Re: EVDO vs EVDO Rev A


    >> Looking at getting a PC Card to use in the Baltimore, MD area. Anyone
    >> have experiences there?
    >>
    >> My dilemma is... knowing that Rev A is coming out soon... and not
    >> knowing when the offer for this plan is going to end... would you go
    >> for the current plan without a Rev A card... or wait it out and end up
    >> paying more per month for the plan with a faster speed? Typical net
    >> usage is surfing, email, some music streaming videos from Yahoo!...
    >> nothing out of the ordinary.


    I'd agree with the previous comments about not waiting for faster speed
    from rev A. You should realize that the speed you experience will
    depend strongly upon how many other users there are on the same
    tower/segment/carrier. This will also be true for rev A when it appears.

    In my region there are a large number of 1xRTT (voice) towers but
    perhaps only 10% of them (total of 3 in fact) also have EV-D0. Each of
    those presently only has 1 carrier/sector, as far as I can tell. Unlike
    1xRTT, for downstream EV-DO each carrier is totally dedicated to a
    single user. Multiple users must time share the resource. This means
    that while I see as high as 1.15 Mbps down and 130 kbps for upstream
    data, as soon as another user comes on the same sector, my download
    speed drops to half or less so things can get quite choppy or even come
    to a temporary standstill.

    >> Thoughts on the card to get as well? It seems that people say they
    >> prefer the Sierra Wirelesss card, but looking at actual speeds
    >> clocked... it seems that one of the other two may be a better choice?


    The measurements I made were with a Novatel S620 in my laptop and with a
    spectrum analyzer for monitoring the tower. While according to
    DSLReports, where I logged the tests, my result was among the highest
    performance for Sprint servers, and while I performed it with an
    external antenna on the card (an advantage of the Novatel, BTW)
    guaranteeing good or excellent signal strength (as high as -55 dBm), it
    is likely that the fact that I was careful to measure at low usage times
    when there was no one else trying to use the same sector and carrier
    probably trumped any differences I might have seen by using different
    cards or PAM/computer combinations.

    Overall I'm fairly impressed with Sprint EV-DO performance and plans,
    enough so that I just added a Treo 700P to my toybox. I hope that my
    writing this doesn't encourage too many people in my area to add Power
    Vision before Sprint can add enough EV-DO carriers and towers to keep it
    up! (:>)

    Glenn



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