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Originally Posted by jimmiekain
Well I live in California about 45 mins from LA (with no traffic) I was in LA in Sept. at my cousins house I did a bandwidth speed test on my mogul I got 1.4 mbits / sec. When I'm at home about 45 miles away the speed varys from 400 kb to 680 kb. is it possible that LA already has Rev A or was that just a fluke? I did it 4 times!!!!
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1.4 mbs down is perfectly within the EVDO rev 0 specification.
One more time for folks that don't quite understand the facts here: EVDO Rev A has been rolled out to the majority of Sprint's infrastructure nationwide. That means that the equipment at the cell towers has been upgraded to handle Rev A. What speeds you get on your Mogul is irrelevant, since the Mogul is NOT Rev A capable yet. The only way you are going to see Rev A speeds at the moment is if you have a Sprint data card for your laptop that is Rev A capable.
The most noticeable difference with Rev A will be that upload speeds will be closer to download speeds, the ability to do almost symmetrical transfers means that the handsets could then do QoS and VoIP. Now before folks go off thinking "wow... we're gonna get VoIP!", the carrier has to support it first via applications on the handset. If they do, that will be cool since both your voice and data will be using the same type of packets... which means you can talk and transfer data at the same time.