[nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Mark J. Bailey
Hi, I have had Verizon for years and am getting fed up with the ever rising costs. I was wondering if any of you here with T-Mobile and/or Sprint (ie, NOT ATT) can comment on real-life experiences regarding a) coverage (regardless of what the coverage sites claim), b) data access/speed,

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Kent Perrier
Sprint is supposed to turn on their LTE network here in Nashville before the end of the year. That will change what sprint offers. I don't know how far from nashville the LTE network will cover. If you go this route, the Evo 4G LTE is the way to go. I don't know if any other sprint phones will

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
anyone used virgin mobile's $35/$45/$55 unlimited data plans? Looks like they start throttling after 2.5GB/month . Any ideas about how good their coverage is? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to

RE: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Mark J. Bailey
I had wondered about that myself. While not a Big Four, I had read several posts that suggested VM had some good value plans. But the coverage, I suspected, was more like T-Mobile and/or Cricket. I had also read T-Mobile could voice/data roam on ATT now, but if coverage in areas like Watertown is

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote: Virgin was a Sprint MVNO, now wholly owned by Sprint. So Sprint Coverage == Virgin Coverage.. Great! For everywhere except in my office, but that could just be my aging cell phone. -- You received this message because

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what it's worth, I've got ATT and just got an iPhone 5 that supports LTE. I've seen LTE coverage everywhere I've gone around the middle Tennessee area and I've seen speeds as high as 47 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up over LTE! The average speed I'm seeing over ATT's LTE is around 18 Mbps! Chris

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Tim Jackson
It's also somethign to mention that if you don't care about LTE, etc (which is non-existent on Sprint now anyway) you can always get a Femtocell from Sprint to enhance coverage at home/work.. Usually for free.. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek sab...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri,

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote: Virgin was a Sprint MVNO, now wholly owned by Sprint. So Sprint Coverage == Virgin Coverage.. Everyone shares towers. If you get a good signal from one provider in a particular part of town it's likely other providers

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

2012-10-05 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I asked the boss how cloudy he wanted to get. There are a lot of great reasons to use someone like Rackspace Cloud or EC2 instead of colo: My favorite one is how telling the boss the Rackspace Cloud bill is gonna go up by

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread David R. Wilson
Any cell provider is likely to have coverage problems. In general the higher the bandwidth, the worse the penetration for the buildings. Foliage and hills will also block the signal. I have Sprint, it works fairly well in most areas of Smyrna, but then I am cheating at the house. My place is on

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

2012-10-05 Thread Tim Jackson
http://vijaygill.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-economics/ This is something to look at, it's a couple of years old, but probably still very accurate. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
Mark J. Bailey m...@jobsoft.com wrote: Hi, I have had Verizon for years and am getting fed up with the ever rising costs. I was wondering if any of you here with T-Mobile and/or Sprint (ie, NOT ATT) can comment on real-life experiences regarding a) coverage (regardless of

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Justin W Elam
The Real issue is the type of 'tower' you are connecting to. I.e. LTE, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, AMPS, NMT-450, TACS, iDEN, HDSPA+ , etc.. so for example if you were roaming in an area that only had AMPS (analog towers) and you were using a iDEN or CDMA or GSM or TDMA or HSPA phone you would not

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Justin W Elam
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[nlug] any one ever tried this? (BackTrack Linux)

2012-10-05 Thread Mark J. Bailey
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ A colleague went to a seminar on wireless security through his workplace and the presenter used this distro for the tools for the seminar. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send

Re: [nlug] any one ever tried this? (BackTrack Linux)

2012-10-05 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Mark J. Bailey m...@jobsoft.com wrote: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ great for pen testing ** ** A colleague went to a seminar on wireless security through his workplace and the presenter used this distro for the tools for the seminar. --