[Tfug] Sprint wireless broadband

[Matthew T. Eskes]

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Anthony Hess wrote:
> My knowledge is very out of date (circa 99) but my experience was just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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Heres some more on it as well:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Broadband-Direct-Goes-Offline-July-31-94556

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