Do you know of a all you can eat plan for 1xRTT? I currently have about 30 units running on CDPD in the Los Angles area, but from what I recall ATT didn't offer a all you can eat plan like they did for CDPD.
-- Jeff King, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/25/2003 On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:32:02 -0700, Casey Halverson wrote: >CDPD will be turned off June 2004. I am currently a CDPD subscriber >with AT&T wireless, and I have received this notification. > >1xRTT isn't a bad path to go. It bursts up to 144kbps up/down >(symmetrical), and provides an average throughput of perhaps 60- >80kbps. I see about 100kbps in the Seattle area on sprint, enough >to stream a 64kbps mp3 on the freeway with room to spare. > >1xRTT will provide 144/307kbps by the end of the year on some >carriers and already supported by most current handsets and pcmcia >cards -- 1xRTT's supplemental carrier system can support up to a >megabit on current hardware. > >1xEV-DO (Korea) supports peak rates of 2.4mbps, while 1xEV-DV (which >the US will see in a couple years) supports peak rates of 3.09mbps. >Good news is that everything is backwards compatible with the >original 2G hardware. > >Things aren't so great on the GSM side of the pond. not that the >standards are bad, but backwards compatibility issues between UMTS, >EDGE, and GPRS are going to propose some serious issues (your going >to have to buy new hardware). > > >>-----Original Message----- From: Jay R. Ashworth >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:05 PM To: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Earthlink/Omnisky >>dropping CDPD >> >> >>I've been an Earthlink CDPD customer since they bought out OmniSky, >>having switched the service for my Visor/Minstrel S from Go >>America. I just got an email from them that they're dropping CDPD >>service (resale -- they never owned the networks anyway, of course) >>in favor of 1xRTT -- which they don't operate either (though you >>could never tell that from the language of their email, unless you >>already knew). >> >>So, if any of you LAN guys are also WAN guys, it's time to start >>re-evaluating CDPD... it looks like it might be the beginning of >>the gets-harder-to-buy curve there. >> >>Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink >> RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa >>Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 >>1274 >> >>OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging >>Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c -- general wireless list, a bawug >>thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: >>http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >-- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
