[Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband

[Anthony Hess]

My knowledge is very out of date (circa 99) but my experience was just
that the technology didn't scale very well and was hard to get running
properly - so you had to send out a lot of trucks on site to get
things working correctly.  The lagginess and general issues that
people faced didn't show up in testing because it didn't tend to be
very bad until you had users on the system.

The older service where you had a modem or isdn (t1 etc) line for the
upload was much more stable.

The owners of People's Choice sure got a great deal though - I think
Sprint paid about 10 dollars a share for a company that was selling at
15 cents a share a couple months earlier.

Tony

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Cresawn <jrcresawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:45 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
>> I've tried Googling for news about this, but "Sprint wireless broadband" just
>> gives hits on things like EVDO service.  I guess I don't know the specific
>> name for the radio wireless service.
>
> It might be Sprint Broadband Direct.
>
> http://www.sprintbroadband.com/
>
> Sprint is probably phasing out that service.  I have tested it before
> and found it to be very poor with high lag and slow transfers.  My
> tests revealed that the transfer rate was about 50% of Verizon's EVDO
> service through a PCMCIA card.  I suspect that they want to begin
> pushing their upcoming WiMax service named Xohm.
>
> http://www.xohm.com/
>
> Ryan
>
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