[Novalug] Dial-up wireless broadband for laptop?
John B. Holmblad
jholmblad@aol.com
Sun Sep 14 08:58:34 EDT 2008
Makenzie,
technically you are correct in the sense that the EVDO radio/modem
component of the handset dials a special number that informs the Radio
base station that an EVDO conneciton is being attempted to the Radio
Base Station and not an end to end call to another telephone somewhere
else in the world. In this respect it is analogous to a wireline PSTN
connection to an ISP's dial in connection.
However, once "dialed in", the bandwidth provided (up to ~1 mbps under
best conditions) is much larger than that associated with a voice call
(~6-8 kbps).
Best Regards,
John Holmblad
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Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 16:55 -0400, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "dial-up broadband." "Pure" dial-up with a
>> modem can't touch broadband. However, DSL comes pretty close. I used
>> Comcast for a few year but got p_ssed because of rate creep - nickel and
>> dime additions of fees - and slow response of dns servers. This problem
>> was recognized by their field reps but went unresolved.
>>
>
> He means those USB EV-DO things Verizon sells plans for. They "dial-up"
> to the cellular network...which makes them "wireless"
>
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