Thanks for posting this. Since my razr started screwing up my EVDO and whatnot I decided not to replace it and just get something else for home and road net. They sold me the Verizon package with panatech usb device, which I purchased to get that 10 gig plan. Working great so far. My upload speed seemed like it was far far faster than I ever had happen with my razr. Almost looked like it was matching its own download speed.
Local related rant:
Rapidly changing my mind, but maybe just cause I'm trying to use this for home net as well as chasing. It's largely become a piece of **** at home. Only time it works well is after 1 a.m. anymore. It's bad when you can never stream 36k music. Plays for 20 seconds, stops for 5 minutes. Even with my messed up RAZR that would never go back to EV and would drop the connection if I DIDN'T have some music streaming...it would stream that music for hours on end without a hiccup.
More often than not it's making 56k dialup literally seem like a dream. Shut the computer off this morning, sick of waiting on a damn model image to load. We're talking a couple minutes IF you could get it to finish. That is becoming the norm. Sorry but if one pays $60/month for internet, even if it is wireless.....this should be a very rare occurrence, not common. This with all 5 bars in middle of town.
It's been night and day different since the Alltel switch here. I know of another chaser in eastern NE that has noticed it's never as quick as it used to be on Alltel.
I talked to Verizon so many times before I went this route and got no where. The last I heard they were going to check the tower, then they called to see if my problem went away after that(but before they ever checked any tower). I was like no. Then never heard anything again and made the switch figuring my RAZR was junk now or they did something to get the $25 grandfathered Altell people on something else.
This usb/millenicom/verizon thing worked well for a short while. If it is just this town stressing out the system....well beef it up! Can't beef it up, charge less than $60/month. Hell they already have the 5 gig restriction on all their people(while I get 10 gig via millenicom route..which to get you'd have to suck it all off at 2 a.m.). Just annoying this wasn't a problem before the Verizon/Alltel switch. And annoying it's now $60 I'm paying for crap.
As for chasing doesn't seem bad, but at the same time it's rare I'm ever trying to get it to pull much. And it's probably an overrun tower here they aren't beefing up. Pointless to call as if that is the problem it's not like they are going to tell you.
Frustrated and no longer recommending Millenicom or Verizon. My tolerance level is pretty damn high, but it's fading rapidly on any sort of wireless net for home use here(and $60/month just for chasing data sure ain't worth it). Wish I didn't buy their damn modem to get the 10 gig bandwidth. I should have known better given I knew it would still be Verizon and it would still be the same area here.
It reminds me a whole lot of the Verizon data at Rockport MO. Each time I'd go through there chasing and try to get data it was just pathetic. Same deal, wait 10 minutes for one image to load....if it would load. Stopped on another chase and thought, I know better than to try and sure enough, same exact way and it's not a signal strength deal either with all bars.
I guess there are still a lot of Alltel people here on the network with those unlimited plans. Maybe they are all going crazy with unlimited data and that is bogging it down. Then again that's what most here before were on, unlimited with Alltel...and the problem just wasn't there. $#%#@$#@$
It took them nine months and dozens of phone calls to correct their data-entry error so that my name would appear correctly on caller id units.
