Re: [Skunkworks] EvDO for business - Comments??

Hi,

On 9/28/10 6:29 PM, [ Brainiac ] wrote:
> @michuki what kind of speeds do you average?
>

A correction i may have stated wrongly not 200mbps - huh! 200Mb download
per day.

Having said that am not sure if i keep track but its often above
100Kbps.(getting it right this time).

Regards,

Michuki.

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Wash,
>>
>> For the better part of this year i have been using the EVDO for my
>> office work. I dont consider myself a light user average usage is about
>> 200mbps per day or more on others.
>>
>> For consistency i would rate it on a 4/5 (that means i expect 4/5 times
>> to get the same service as i got every other day).
>>
>> The only time i had to call CS was last week on Thursday when the issues
>> started. Once issues were resolved on Monday, From Tuesday am back to
>> about 5 - 7hrs of connectivity without disconnections.
>>
>> Stability i would rate it 3.5/5. It was higher before last week - now am
>> re-evaluating it again.
>>
>> For speeds i would rate it at a 4/5 - i get to do my conference calls
>> (skype, marratech, etc) without a problem. Its nice because if power
>> goes i still have about 3hrs left of uptime on the laptop battery).
>>
>> They used to give public IPs - as a techie thats a 5/5 but with the new
>> upgrades they have gone back to double nat so thats 2/5 :(.
>>
>> Customer Service - I have to give them credit for being on skunkworks so
>> they get a 3.5/5 since i havent had to use them and when i did they
>> owned up to issues being on their end.
>>
>> YMMV, it will also depend on how many users you have on the network (am
>> a single user). The capacity requirements and location - i would tend to
>> think we are less than 10 users on the basestation i connect to - so not
>> largely resource constrained! :).
>>
>> ** So if you use the service with a modem you are likely to get into
>> tripple NAT and thats likely to break far too much for your liking.
>>
>> But thats just my opinion.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michuki.
>>
>> On 9/10/10 6:44 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>>> I have a question:
>>> I have this router (details already posted on this list) which can use
>> both
>>> a leased line and USB modem as fail-over or as primary link. Config is up
>> to
>>> the user.
>>> I am just thinking - is EvDO reliable enough to be used as the only
>>> connection for a business?
>>> I am just thinking that with 4k a month (for the unlimited weekly
>> bundle),
>>> if EvDO is reliable enough, then I can save 13k by using EvDO, instead of
>>> paying an ISP 17k every month for a 128/256kbps connection. Am I going
>> crazy
>>> thinking like so?
>>>
>>> How often does the service go down?
>>>
>>> Can the system allow me to buy 4 weekly unlimited bundles at a go? If not
>>> possible, I can just buy the cards and reload every week:)
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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