As wireless broadband access becomes more ubiquitous, is it becoming possible for a businessperson to conduct his everyday work, at high speed, out in the middle of nowhere? Scott Fulton reports from the wilds of Indiana.

I use the EV-DO service thru Verizon. I find the best way is to use it is to remotely control another machine connected to a hard wired network. I use GotoMyPC but there are lots of ways to do it. Even when the connection slows way down the system is still very usuable.

I finally feel like I can truly work anywhere and I am fully connected no matter where I am - This is the good life!!!

Thanks,
Larry

I use this service almost every day. I however use my Blackberry through its USB port (some cell phones have a high speed modem built in). On average I see about 280k for speed. I was using IPsec VPN to get in to my company. On top of that I used Cisco's VoIp product and looged in to a Webex meeting. This way I was able to be in a telecon and watch the presentation. At the end of the meeting I decided to push it a little and I started Remote Desktop Connection to one of my servers and logged in.

It is a very good product Verizon has. I herd the "corprate" rate we have is $15 per month unlimited. At this rate DSL is in real trouble!!!

Troy

According to Verizon's coverage maps, Versailles, Indiana does not have EV-DO service. EV-DO has only been deployed in some markets at this point in time -- and these are mostly large markets. Without EV-DO, the connection would be a 1x RTT connection which is significantly slower. I would expect speeds that are much faster in an area that actually had EV-DO service, especially in a peak times. In addition, EV-DO is mostly located on the 1900mhz frequency rather than the 850mhz frequency that most voice traffic is located on -- this would also help relieve bandwidth issues at peak times.

Included is a copy of the aforementioned map -- the purple areas represent where there is EV-DO coverage, the yellow represents 1x RTT service, and the star signifies the town of Versailles.


Also, here is a list of markets that are EV-DO ready...
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/coveragelocator/covlocatorpopup.jsp?mapSelected=BROADBANDACCESS

I use the 1X connection myself. I am sure that is the speed you got out there. EV-DO is up to a 3Mb connection. I use Alltel's 1X. Where I am located my dial-up connection gets me a maximum 5kb/s download. The 1X gets me up to 20kb/s.

Believe me that is a huge improvement when downloadinf patches and files. I am 6 to 18 months out waiting for DSL to bridge the last mile. I would not trade a house in town with broadband for 35 acres of woods, fields and fishing pond on a dead end road.

Great Article, we have had 3G in the UK for a while and we ar elucky to not be as big as the USA so we have pretty much blanket coverage..

I use it all the time have done for over a year.. it rocks for email, and can load web pages as fast as you need, unless you want video..

Its not a great system.. 3G that is but we are soon to start rolling out :

HSDPA
this will rock but of course only till the next technology!

Here in norway we have EDGE and 3G/UTMS
gives me 480 kbs downstream and 64 kbs upstream (utms)
and 115 kbs downstream and 64 kbs upstream (edge)

This coverage is practicly everywhere and i love it 8)

I was wondering is this type of mobile broadband a solution to play online games via my laptop? perhaps world of warcraft? or mabye something simular that could handle that sort of thing?

I travel from time to time and do not always have a choice where i can stay and something like this being able to use anywhere i can make a cell phone call would be great, iv been hopeing something like this would come out for mobile gaming yet im not sure if this will cut it.

Anybody know?

Hi there,
No i would not recomend anything that is latency sensitive to be runned over a UTMS connnection.
You instantly get 2-300 ms under no load here in norway

Perhaps a bit late to this topic, however, I just started using EV-DO w/ Sprint in the greater Portland, Oregon area.

I've tried it in several places throughout the metro and consistently get 480K/120K download/upload. It is like a med-speed DSL link. To test this, I'm tethering a PPC6700 running Mobile Windows 5.0 on a WinXP laptop and using www.dslreports.com/stest (Seattle's speakeasy)

The speeds discussed in the article sound like almost 1xRTT which suprises me.

Here's the coverage map for Portland area:

http://tinyurl.com/lnhg8

Where the orange is EV-DO coverage area and the beige is being worked on.

Cheers!