 Review by djdanska 
Posted: 258 days ago
member for 8.5 years, 4550 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Westmont,Dupage,IL
 $59 per month (24 month contract)
 "Faster than edge w/tmobile, decent coverage."
 "Slower than tmobile 3g, Doesn't like the train. Kinda on the high side price wise"
 "Better than edge, For travel it's better than the alternatives"
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I almost went with verizon but they wanted $50 for the data card and sprint was free. I signed up with sprint and a few days later the data card cable came in the mail. Installation was easy on xp and vista x64. I also installed it on 32 bit windows 7. Was a pain but i did get it working. The SmartView program is slow on my xp machine but flys on my vista machine. (That's what i get for using an older laptop).
The speed at home in Westmont, IL is about 1200kbps down 300 kbps up. If i am away from home, it's about 600kbps down 150 kbps up. Gets even slower while going 65 mph on the train going west.
I get coverage everywhere on the train. (burlington northern from chicagoland to western illinois) I have noticed that the data card doesn't like switching towers very well. I will lose service for 20 seconds, roam, and then mysteriously have full service again with sprint. Something else it does is go from evdo to 1xrtt back and forth all the time. Usable but a pain. Slows downloads down.
Better than t-mobile edge/gprs coverage. Slower than t-mobile 3g coverage. If t-mobile gets 100 % 3g coverage in Illinois within the next year or two, i plan on canceling this data card and keeping them instead. I get a constant 1100kbps down 350 kbps up with them 24/7. And just about all the places i go has a t-mobile signal.
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