Testing EVDO

By C.K. Sample, III

After reading my post last week where I was musing whether or not EVDO was worth it, Mike from EVDOinfo contacted me and offered to send me a loaner card complete with service to test for a week. The Kyocera KPC650 just arrived, and I had it up and running on my 15-inch PowerBook in about 10 minutes (the installer required a restart and the boot time ran a bit slower than normal; I'll have to test and see if this happens again, or if it was a one time after-installation slow down). So far so good.

I'm running the PowerBook over the Verizon connection right now, while I am posting this and I plan on putting the service through the full ringer this week, reporting back here with what I find, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: Here's the first benchmarks, taken during my lunch break inside a building at work. 

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