Seriously, Acme Packet?

Acme Packet supplies the roller skates, the batman wings, and the rocket pack. What happens from there is all on Verizon.

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo: Acme Packet supplies the roller skates, the batman wings, and the rocket pack. What happens from there is all on Verizon.

How could you forget the catapults? That's their #1 seller!

/earthquake pills FTW!

Better find some wifi, hard to watch porn on 3g

Still like my Thunderbolt.

frozenhotchocolate: Better find some wifi, hard to watch porn on 3g

I watch it just fine on 3......eerrrrrr....I mean I am able to watch youtube just fine on 3g

technomuse: Seriously, Acme Packet?

It's the name you can trust.

Does anyone ever really get that much benefit from 4G?

Everything I've read makes it sound like it Sanduskys battery life and isn't available in that many places.

I mean - it's a phone. I guess I can understand using it IF you are tethered and are using it to upload large files but other than that - is it really worth it to browse Fark a little bit faster? On your phone?

stpauler: But you'll have to pay a convenience fee to use it.

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fo_sho!: Does anyone ever really get that much benefit from 4G?

Everything I've read makes it sound like it Sanduskys battery life and isn't available in that many places.

I mean - it's a phone. I guess I can understand using it IF you are tethered and are using it to upload large files but other than that - is it really worth it to browse Fark a little bit faster? On your phone?

The last three times I've checked my ATT LTE speeds (at various times of the day) I've gotten between 3 and 4 MBytes/Second results.

My crappy Time Warner "high speed" wired internet barely ever passes 200KB/Second.

tgambitg: stpauler: But you'll have to pay a convenience fee to use it.

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They just backed down on that.... Source (new window)

Hope there's a green for that story. Love that little blurb though. Even as they back through the door they're claiming it was a good thing for customers to add this fee.

Understanding that none of the deployed 4Gs are what was intended by 4G, I am getting between 10 and 25 Mbps on my T-Mobile Galaxy S II (HSPA+ 42). But usually it's about 17Mbps, which is faster than what I pay for from Cox. (However, Cox has unlimited data as opposed to 5Gb).

Most of that speed, I think, is because there just aren't many users yet.

There is actually a problem with that speed, which is that Neflix somehow determines that with a line that fast they can pump their highest quality, bloating bytes down to me, so that movies actually take up more bandwidth on 4G than the same movie on a 3G channel. This can be throttled somewhat at the Netflix website, but should be a setting within the app.

There is a real mismatch of 4G speeds and how much data the carriers want to give you.

Anyway, in the Verizon store the Galaxy Nexus was only getting about 7-9 Mpbs, and the import Galaxy Nexus compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile only works up to HSPA+ 21 or 14 or some such, or probably speeds of about 5-10 Mpbs.

I'd really prefer, I think, a Galaxy Note but it's not clear what carrier will even support that. It's huge too, more of a tablet. Not as big of course as my first Galaxy, a Galaxy 500 with the 429 V8 that didn't even support 14.4Kbps down, well the Galaxy Note is not so bad. Man, that 500 though, was dangerous. Never could feel the road in that thing.

RoyBatty: Not as big of course as my first Galaxy, a Galaxy 500 with the 429 V8 that didn't even support 14.4Kbps down,

Well... it was considerably faster than network speeds at the time... Just sayin'...

Best 4G speed I've had was a hair shy of 19 megs down, and I think about 6 up.

"LTE" has to be one of the stupidest names ever. "Long Term Evolution" of what, exactly? It's not like your phone is going to have babies and in a few million years we'll see a new phone evolve.

fo_sho!: Does anyone ever really get that much benefit from 4G?

I'm usually a "run it into the ground," non-gadgety type of guy, but I bought a new smart phone for 4G:

3G takes a while to load a web page. This is especially annoying for sites that don't display any content until all the facebook and assorted advertising widgets have loaded. 4G is nearly instantaneous for most sites I frequent.

4G also allows for streaming audio and video. 3G did too, but at low quality and/or with long preload times, making the experience just irritating enough that I didn't stream.

Nicholas Urfe: fo_sho!: Does anyone ever really get that much benefit from 4G?

I'm usually a "run it into the ground," non-gadgety type of guy, but I bought a new smart phone for 4G:

3G takes a while to load a web page. This is especially annoying for sites that don't display any content until all the facebook and assorted advertising widgets have loaded. 4G is nearly instantaneous for most sites I frequent.

4G also allows for streaming audio and video. 3G did too, but at low quality and/or with long preload times, making the experience just irritating enough that I didn't stream.

And when it comes to tethering,I can have my nook color, my laptop, and another one or two laptops on it with little drag. Did this during the week long power outage here in CT after the snowstorm in October. 3G wouldn't have been able to compete.

If you have any love for staying connected to the internet do NOT get the Verizon wireless USB551L usb devices. 4g LTE is fast IF it connects and for only about as much time as before it decides to disconnect for 3G.

I had to restart my Bionic a couple times over the last week to get it reconnected to the internet.

I sobbed quietly to myself until it was over.

What Plants Crave: I had to restart my Bionic a couple times over the last week to get it reconnected to the internet.

I sobbed quietly to myself until it was over.

There were issues with some of them. I had the problem for about a week until I got an OTA update, but if you're still having the problem, just go into airplane mode then turn it off. It seemed like a problem with the phone turning off 4G data when it the phone idles and had a problem kicking back on when it was woken up.

frozenhotchocolate: Better find some wifi, hard to watch porn on 3g

Really? I watch..err, I get perfectly fine speeds over the 3G network.


Saturday Morning at 11:00AM.

fo_sho!: Does anyone ever really get that much benefit from 4G?

Everything I've read makes it sound like it Sanduskys battery life and isn't available in that many places.

I mean - it's a phone. I guess I can understand using it IF you are tethered and are using it to upload large files but other than that - is it really worth it to browse Fark a little bit faster? On your phone?

I don't quite get the early adopters, but hey to each their own. Sprint rolled out that all digital cellular network back in the day and was the best. Then when 3G came along, Verizon rolled out the best network. I figure in a year or so we'll see who wins the 4G rollout and I'll take my business to them. If work was paying I'd lock myself into a 2 year 4G contract, but as it stands I'll wait a year until battery life improves and some provider establishes themselves as a better network.

RoyBatty: I'd really prefer, I think, a Galaxy Note but it's not clear what carrier will even support that. It's huge too, more of a tablet. Not as big of course as my first Galaxy, a Galaxy 500 with the 429 V8 that didn't even support 14.4Kbps down, well the Galaxy Note is not so bad. Man, that 500 though, was dangerous. Never could feel the road in that thing.


What year, and pics?

I think it was a '74 but may have been a '71. A pale blue wagon that looked almost white, and I'm actually not sure it was a 429V8, but it was a V8. It was my parents car, I learned to drive in it, and shortly after I got my license, I remember taking it out on the "new" Simi Freeway and taking it up to 110 before I got scared because with it's American Suspension and Power Steering it would just float around the lane.

Anyway, the car was sadly mostly useless to me, it would get me to and from college with the entire dorm room crammed into it, but wouldn't carry a girl.

Looked similar to this 1969

ha-ha-guy: fo_sho!:
I don't quite get the early adopters, but hey to each their own. Sprint rolled out that all digital cellular network back in the day and was the best. Then when 3G came along, Verizon rolled out the best network. I figure in a year or so we'll see who wins the 4G rollout and I'll take my business to them. If work was paying I'd lock myself into a 2 year 4G contract, but as it stands I'll wait a year until battery life improves and some provider establishes themselves as a better network.

I'm in a somewhat unique position because I have a Xoom table with VZW and an EVO with Sprint and large data plans for both. Only the EVO has the 4G and since I frequently travel to places which have 4G and, rooted, I wirelessly tether with my co-workers so they suck bandwidth from my connection but it works very well.

Sprint's iteration of 4G is not at all ideal for mobility as the connection cannot sustain itself when handing off between towers but for static use it's excellent and 10% unlimited. My daughter will watch the SlingBox or Netflix on the EVO in 3G just fine, occasional dropouts but otherwise a decent experience. On the Xoom she has good luck with it too. I have to occasionally switch between the tablet and handset for broadband access and Sprint beats out VZW for speed and connection quality where VZW beats out Sprint in other areas. It's a complete toss up for me.

What pisses me off most is VZW's "rule the air" crap and claiming how fast their connection speeds are. That simply means you'll rocket to your cap that much faster. But I guess you have to pay to play.