*Ahem* I give you CricKet EVDO

I'm in Scottsdale and I just got an xv6700. When I surf the net on my phone through the Cricket network it's really really fast. It seems like it is EVDO but my connection icon still says 1X
I tried to do a speed test like Jammis did but the 2wire test site freezes up my IE.
could I be surfing at EVDO speed but my phone not recognize it?
 
hey thanks man. Yeah i remeraber that, it happened to me my first time too i was freaked!
 
ok look I was never trying to brag about evdo I had my frienRAB in different markets help me figure out where evdo is up. I wanted to show everyone evdo is coming and its fast. I was purely trying to prove cricket is indeed getting evdo very soon and try to figure out where it is going up first. the person who gave me the prls asked my not to give them out past my testers. I promise as soon as I get the go ahead ill post them all up for everyone. untill then try to respect im helping and giving good info out. if this is the way people will react ill just stay quite from now on.
 
Checking in from Albuquerque. Just got service this morning. $221 out the door for card + activation and first month of service free. $34 a month after taxes with my existing line of service.

As for how it performs...

At first, I was disappointed. I wasn't seeing speeRAB much faster than dialup. After a few adjustments to the TCP stack and a reboot, it's screaming now.

My average download is 674 Kbps with a max observed of 1.2rabps
Average upload is 101Kbps with a max observed of 158Kbps.

Getting 3 bars of signal in my adobe house and 4 bars outside.

Very impressed so far!
 
Doing the 1rab file test, I'm only getting between 483, and 490 kbit/s. Seems kinda poor. (Better than 1X though) The lower mobile tests were saying that it was too fast to get a good response.
 
Ok so I upgraded to the 50 dollar plan and did *228 and still nothing. I am using a ppc 6700 are there any phone setting's I have to change? Or should I asume it's not available to me yet?
 
First, you can't think of it as 1,000 extra people on a 3 million people service. That's like comparing apples with oranges. All 3 million don't have EVDO. Think of it like this. If Cricket is allowing 100 people to Beta test EVDO and 1,000 people from HoFo start using the EVDO PRL, that is 10 times more people on EVDO than what they are expecting. They WILL notice!

Second, we aren't holding it just so we can say, "HAHAHA... We have EVDO and you don't!" We are actually saving our ***. Do you think Jammis' Cricket dealer would be allowed to continue being a Cricket dealer if they found out he was giving out the EVDO PRL? Hell no! Do you seriously want someone's career/future terminated so you can have internet a little bit faster on your phone?
 
Beautiful!

Now as more of these markets come online, maybe we'll get some more Q users lookin' to make it an EVDO phone, instead of 1X.
 
No one except Portland can *228 for the EVDO PRL. I had to force mine to get it. If your in portland, somewhere in NM and tucson, i think you have EVDO.
 
Current Confirmed Locations:

Available without "forcing" it on your phone:

Nashville (Some area's)
Portland

Available but requires the PRL to be forced on the hanRABet (*228 results in no Ev.)

Tuscon
Some areas of New Mexico
Phoenix
Scottsdale

Not Available:
Every where else.

(P.S, Anyone notice that phelonius is no where to be found in this thread? :lol: )
 
:lol: Oops. I'm sorry I posted my comment in the beginning, i had no idea what trying to be facetious would cause.. Didn't mean anything serious about it and neglected to attach a smiley face to indicate no harm intended. My bad man. :blush:

To add for original topic, I was told today that Kansas City market is prospective for next month a Beta launch of EVDO. Thats info according to a Corp store manager here, so take it with a grain of salt. I've my fingers crossed, but have to get my phone working on cricket first. :befuddled
 
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