I have to wonder about his internet usage. I signed up for one of those Sprint PCS free trials last year, I couldn't even find a use for it when it was free. They really had a signal in most places, probably about as good as Sprint PCS voice. But it was head poundingly slow. When you were lucky you got 19.6kbps, and the latency was absolutely insane, you could type a word in a SSH session and go out and buy a coffee and when you came back it still hadn't echoed back. Again when you were lucky it was like a bad transatlantic connection, you type a line, stop, wait, look for missing words or characters. If missing, delete line and repeat, no point in trying to edit with that type of latency.
I got the impression that connecting a 2400 bps modem to a cell phone with a headphone jack would have been much more usable. Data seemed to be a lower priority packet for the network than voice. Which is attrocious anyway with PCS. I had to laugh when a PCS salesman called me once and his connection kept going out, or I heard 3 or 4 other conversations, he should have gotten a phone from Nextel or something. This is in NYC, I've had friends tell me PCS is better in other cities. And perhaps things are better now. But from my experience I'd have to imagine that at $80 a month a satelite phone is more reliable. Also I'm a bit puzzled with his view that cafe's are not where you are going to access the internet. On a business trip it's probably easiest to just use the 100Base-T in the Hotel, but if your using the internet in your daily life then a cafe seems like an ideal place for access, you are sitting down and relaxed. -- Daniel On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jon Baer wrote: ]A pretty good read ... ] ]http://reiter.weblogger.com/2003/05/27 ] ]-snip- ]By: Jeffrey K. Belk ]Senior Vice President, Marketing ]QUALCOMM Incorporated ] ]Below will be the longest mail you have received on Wi-fi that is not an ]academic or vendor white paper. It's something altogether different. It's a ]description of my personal experiences using Wi-Fi 'hotspot' services the ]week of May 12th in Europe. ] ]-snip- ] ]- Jon ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
