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    I'm trying to get WWAN and have some questions

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by deaffob, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. deaffob

    deaffob Notebook Guru

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    Hi, last few days I've been on the forums to find out about the WWAN. I figured sprint provides the best service(verizon got 5gig limit and at&t's networks get bombed by all the iphone connections.) But I have few questions since I've never used WWAN before.

    1. I saw that each providers have certain WWAN expresscards that they are selling at their websites, but is it nessesary to buy from them?(because price of those cards seem too high) If not, what expresscard provides decent features?

    2. If I'm gonna get this WWAN, I plan to use it everywhere incluing home that means that I'll be doing games and heavy downloadings too such as WOW, CSS, TF2 and 500mb~2gb downloadings. I saw the speed for WWAN, the downloading speed was 600kbs~1.5mbs. Is that typical "10 sec per"? or it's really "one sec per" Because my dsl is 3mb and it gets only 300kbs(one sec) for downloadings and I don't have any problem playing any games on that speed.

    3. Are the ports blocked? Because I can't have blocked ports for playing games and downloadings!

    Sorry for the long writing!

    Charles
     
    deaffob, Oct 20, 2007
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