nobody_here
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I went into the local Verizon store today to see what the latest phones available were. While in there the Manager just kept going on and on about how fast their Broadband Wireless service is.....i let him sit there and "wow" me with how fast it was, he just kept clicking on website after website, streaming video, etc.....and granted it was fast enough....but i mentioned i had a Cingular Broadband 860 card that was "just as fast" and it was on
so he challenged me to a duel of sorts, of course my Dell D620 was in the car, and i had some time to kill, so hey, sure, whatever you like....so i grabbed it
we got both systems rebooted and all initial HDD activity stopped....we launch our browsers, typed in the same address, and clicked together and bam, mine was done a good 5-10 seconds before his....okay, lets try another site, same thing, over and over, i even let him choose the sites
so then since we are running different laptops with different browsers i suggested we run simple ping tests through the command prompt to eliminate these factors, and bam bam bam, i completely mopped the floor with him, so i finally cant resist and look at him and ask, "can you hear me now"? ROFL.....the young Asst Mgr was watching the whole thing and he was just laughing along...LOL
then we ran a test at bandwidthspeedtest.com just to be sure, he comes in at 400'ish kbps, mine is hitting 750'ish kbps
keep in mind the Acceleration client built into the Cingular software was turned to the highest quality, so no or minimal compression being used, oh, and i had one single bar of signal strength and was in a 3G network area, and of course, sitting in the Verizon store he had a wide open EvDo signal, or whatever they call it
it was just funny and interesting, he was so impressed with his service until then...
i told him up until about a week or so ago it wasnt as fast though, just the other day Cingular updated their client software and the speed really improved
fun day, funnest time i ever had in a cell phone store for sure, but he was a good sport about it, he didn't make any excuses
so he challenged me to a duel of sorts, of course my Dell D620 was in the car, and i had some time to kill, so hey, sure, whatever you like....so i grabbed it
we got both systems rebooted and all initial HDD activity stopped....we launch our browsers, typed in the same address, and clicked together and bam, mine was done a good 5-10 seconds before his....okay, lets try another site, same thing, over and over, i even let him choose the sites
so then since we are running different laptops with different browsers i suggested we run simple ping tests through the command prompt to eliminate these factors, and bam bam bam, i completely mopped the floor with him, so i finally cant resist and look at him and ask, "can you hear me now"? ROFL.....the young Asst Mgr was watching the whole thing and he was just laughing along...LOL
then we ran a test at bandwidthspeedtest.com just to be sure, he comes in at 400'ish kbps, mine is hitting 750'ish kbps
keep in mind the Acceleration client built into the Cingular software was turned to the highest quality, so no or minimal compression being used, oh, and i had one single bar of signal strength and was in a 3G network area, and of course, sitting in the Verizon store he had a wide open EvDo signal, or whatever they call it
it was just funny and interesting, he was so impressed with his service until then...
i told him up until about a week or so ago it wasnt as fast though, just the other day Cingular updated their client software and the speed really improved
fun day, funnest time i ever had in a cell phone store for sure, but he was a good sport about it, he didn't make any excuses