Larry wrote:
wrote in news:1192424821.682740.294880
@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

www.internetforboats.com

"Signal Range
30-140km or 15-80 miles from a cell tower*"

Horse****....H-O-R-S-E-S-H-I-T!

C'mon Larry, don't hold back :-)


3G/GSM is on the 1900 Mhz PCS phone system. They're lucky to get
3 miles from a tower and still have a connect.

That's not "luck" Larry, that's a miracle.


1900 Mhz is LINE-OF-SIGHT with some awful path attenuation....

80 miles from an airplane at 10,000 feet, maybe....if there's no
other cell towers visible.

"Internet Speed
Broadband speeds up to 3.6mbps*"

Yeah, pardon my Guffaw as well...


* = "network dependent". You might get 3.6mbps if you have your
own network, unshared with others and UNCAPPED by a PCS carrier.
That isn't going to happen, either. The "system" may be capable
of 3.6M bps, but the carriers, in the high RF noise environment,
are lucky to get 500Kbps on a regular basis.

Well, I'm sending this on an ATT/Cincular aircard right now, from S. San
Francisco, not 4 miles from the airport. I'd *kill* for 500Kbps on a
regular basis! On a "regular" basis, here on the job site, 50-60Kbps is
a good day - interspersed with PPP errors and service dropouts. My
buddy here on the same site is with Verizon, and he get's "better"
service, but not by much.

Sitting on my boat, across the jetty from the San Diego airport, I can
get maybe 150Kbps on average - - interspersed with PPP errors and
service dropouts. From my boat, my buddies' Verizon card is solid, and
smokes the Cingular card for transfer rates. I'll go Verizon next time...

Keith Hughes