Data card coverage in Taranaki

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dpw

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#45495 5-Sep-2006 21:08

I think we're talking about different roads here. She's actually in Inglewood and, IIRC, there's no Junction Rd nearby. She's on Upper Durham Road, not Drive.

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#45498 5-Sep-2006 21:14

Bummer... None of the network sites around Inglewood have EVDO, so your friend will be limited to 1XRTT speed (i.e. 153 kbps max).

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#45504 5-Sep-2006 21:29

1XRTT in my own personal experience has yielded speeds of 110 - 120 kbps average (both up and download), with reasonable (50% +) signal quality.

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#45508 5-Sep-2006 21:31

1xRTT is OK for surfing etc, better than dial up and GPRS. If you are just using the net for email then its not a bad solution

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#45518 5-Sep-2006 21:51

Can someone recommend a good site for testing bandwidth from my Apache? (please)

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#45521 5-Sep-2006 22:09

NZDSL have a good one

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#45536 5-Sep-2006 23:51

dpw:
That's weird - which map did you look at? I looked at the Taranaki one and it seemed she's on the border between primary and secondary mobile data coverage, the two shades of green.

Did I read it completely wrong?

Sort of wrong. Green means CDMA 1x (up to 153kps), Yellow means CDMA 1xEVDO (upto 2Mbps).

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