Like many of us in this line of work, I often feel like I'm chained
to my house or my desk. If a server has a problem, I have to respond
quickly.
Lately I have even avoided going to dinner at places that don't have
a wi-fi hotspot... so McDonald's has been the restaurant of
choice... not a fun thing.
Yesterday I finally broke down and got myself an EvDO card from
Sprint. I selected the Novatel U720 so that it was compatible with
both my Macbook Pro and my older iBook G4.
So here's my real question, which is the better driver to use,
Apple's WWAN driver, or the Novatel EvDO driver downloaded from
Sprint?
In my neck of the woods, true EvDO isn't available yet, so the
speeds are pretty choppy. I can get about 1.3Mbps download, but only
about 92kpbs upload. I doubt switching drivers will improve my
speeds much if at all, but I'd like to play around and see what I
can do to boost things.
Anyone have any experience with either driver they can share?
We actually ran a clients small office off a EvDO card from Sprint
when they moved and didn't have their XDSL and T3 lines in place yet.
We hooked up a Powerbook to do Internet Sharing off the card and
everyone was actually really please. I even caught one of the office
workers running - grunt - iTunes radio off it before I stopped them
saying it might have a bandwidth impact. (Appartently it wasn't, or
at least no one noticed.)
That wasn't the Novatel card, but something else. We used their
drivers b/c the Mac one's didn't work but our results were very
favorable. Then again we were in NYC and had good coverage.
I suspect that this is one of those things were YMMV.
--
-dhan
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questions." -- Claude Levi-Strauss
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