On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:41:41 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>CellGuy <cellguy@seemessagebody.com> wrote in
>news:133cgjl57svh6.1hkbrt8y44x0w.dlg@40tude.net :
>
>> http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/2343/64/
>
>"For now, the only 'unlimited' broadband cellular plan is offered by
>Alltel. 3Gstore recently signed a contract to become an Alltel agent, and
>we will begin to sell and support Alltel EVDO service in the coming
>weeks."
>
>Yep. Costs me $25/mo tethered via BT DUN from my Nokia N800 Linux tablet
>to the MotoROKR Z6m bought specifically for the purpose.
>
>Alltel's country club is fine! Come on over! If you're gonna jump ship,
>lemme know and I'll split the $25 finders fee with ya...(c;
>
>EVDO unlimited.....even in the South Carolina boondocks! Speed is pretty
>stable at 700-800Kbps days and 900-1100Kbps nights after business quits
>chasing the dollars.... My tablet tells me the IP and the connect is PPP
>like DSL. It dumps you if you don't do anything for about 3 minutes and
>must reconnect when there's a call for it, again....10 seconds.
>
>Hmm...just got my bill, lemme look....
>
>Ah, here 'tiz. "Wireless Data Home Usage" - 21,591,929 KB last
>month....and noone bitched.

I really, really, really hope Alltel starts imposing a bandwidth cap
if for no other reason than to piss you off.

>I stream audio/video in my vehicles a lot, even in the countryside.
>Works great and rarely drops, except when I pass from this system to that
>system. It doesn't hand off the IP so you get a new one, very fast, but
>of course the streaming server can't find you when it dropped so you have
>to press PLAY again to retrieve the stream to the new IP.

I trust you realize watching television while driving in SC is illegal
(SC Code of Laws 56-5-4440).