@michuki what kind of speeds do you average? 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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