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I use wunderground on my Verizon PDA phone
as well. If you look under the Wunderground logo, you will see a link to
the pda/mobile version. I set my home page on the pda to the local radar
map on the pda version. It loads immediately when I open IE on my
phone. Great map although it doesn’t have all the features of the
desktop/laptop version. Rick Harnish President OnlyInternet Broadband & Wireless,
Inc. 260-827-2482 Founding Member of WISPA From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Hello Ken, Yes, it has been some time since we last
met. I believe it was with my brother Jack more than a couple years ago
at your place near Alvarado. I believe it may have even been before you
had a tower up! Time flies! My first mobile data card (still have it
in a drawer) was from Air My second data card was Sprint’s
first generation card. This service was far superior to Ricochet in
coverage and service while driving was terrific. This is the card I used
while driving across country during a couple vacations. Service started
out at about 120Kbps-200Kbps and 350-450ms latency which was a bit worse than
Ricochet. The service did begin to slow and Sprint moved the couple cards
we had to their new service that we have now. I figure $5 a year for a weather service I
enjoy is a bargain. I think that works out to just over a penny a
day. The site www.wunderground.com
really is a great source of information and the five bucks eliminates the advertisements
and enables a few additional features. You should check it out during the
next storm…I’m fairly sure the experimental “Lightning”
data is pulled from a client of ours that operates a number of remote sensors
our network provides service to. Pretty amazing technology as they can
actually predict a lightning strike (cloud to cloud, cloud to ground or ground
to cloud) before it happens. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- Hi Brad, we do need to
meet each other one of these days since we are in the same city. Interesting. I may have
to look into this further. I had heard that the Sprint service was slow from
other users. What is the best way to buy the hardware and monthly service for
this? Is the Sprint website the only source? Why do you pay for this
weather stuff? Why not use one of the local TV station web sites or WeatherBug? Ken Chipps From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Belton Hello Ken, Yes, Mark is
correct. RDC is short (in my book anyway) for Remote Desktop Control aka
Terminal Services or Citrix etc… Yes, I subscribe to www.wunderground.com for my weather
information. The $5 a year it costs is well worth the money IMO (in my
opinion). <grin> Pulling current, animated
radar images over my Sprint DATA card has not given me any trouble. Speed
test confirmation from www.testmy.net : :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 654 Kbps
about 0.65 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Download Speed is:: 80 kB/s Tested From:: http://testmy.net/
(Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/09/18 - 4:26pm Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K
1MB Download in 12.8 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took
7.25 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay :
running at 96.04 % of your hosts average (spcsdns.net) D-Validation Link::
http://testmy.net/stats/id-814GRHMXW I’ve seen well over
1Mbps before, but even then 654Kbps isn’t that bad. Latency
typically looks like this: Pinging 4.2.2.2 with 32 bytes of
data: Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=163ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=173ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=188ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=172ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=239ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=170ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=185ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=167ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=155ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=368ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=151ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=165ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32 time=179ms
TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=200ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=162ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=180ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=181ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=160ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=175ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=159ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=146ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=185ms TTL=237 Reply from 4.2.2.2: bytes=32
time=143ms TTL=237 Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2: Packets: Sent =
23, Received = 23, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in
milli-seconds: Minimum = 143ms,
Maximum = 368ms, Average = 181ms Tracert looks like this: Tracing route to
vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net [4.2.2.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 171
ms 157 ms 162 ms 68.28.177.69 2
*
* * Request
timed out. 3 191
ms 183 ms 190 ms 68.28.187.54 4 326
ms 162 ms 156 ms 68.28.187.6 5
*
* * Request
timed out. 6
*
* * Request
timed out. 7 162
ms 158 ms 164 ms 68.28.187.97 8 168
ms 153 ms 160 ms 68.28.187.18 9 194
ms 162 ms 157 ms sl-gw11-atl-0-1.sprintlink.net
[144.223.140.69] 10 171
ms 161 ms 157 ms sl-bb22-atl-5-0.sprintlink.net
[144.232.12.85] 11 161
ms 159 ms 188 ms sl-bb25-atl-9-0.sprintlink.net
[144.232.12.38] 12 173
ms 193 ms 189 ms sl-bb22-fw-15-0.sprintlink.net
[144.232.8.21] 13 186
ms 186 ms 184 ms sl-bb27-fw-12-0.sprintlink.net
[144.232.11.33] 14 180
ms 183 ms 187 ms sl-st20-dal-13-0.sprintlink.net
[144.232.20.83] 15 384
ms 173 ms 167 ms
interconnect-eng.Dallas1.Level3.net [64.158.168.73] 16 166
ms 193 ms 206 ms so-1-2-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net
[209.244.15.16] 17 180
ms 183 ms 192 ms ge-11-0.core1.Dallas1.Level3.net
[4.68.122.40] 18 423
ms 224 ms 199 ms vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net [4.2.2.2] Trace complete. As with most things
YMMV. (Your Mileage May Vary) <grin> Best, Brad -----Original Message----- Remote
Desktop Connection I would suspect… Mark McElvy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two questions. What is RDC? Is the data rate for the
Sprint card high enough to download color weather radar images quickly? Ken Chipps
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