I don't have the fucking time to descibe the protocol differences of 3GPP and 3GPP2 and protocol fail of LG and their shitty drivers. The UML290 model doesn't have this problem and uses a newer Qualcomm chipset.

Try getting 35+Mbps down and 5-8Mbps up on Sprint when their WiMAX capacity is under-engineered on average. VZW has all their LTE cell sites on FIBER with a shit-load of capacity.

What? You're EVDO should improve and maxing it out. Areas where the cell towers have LTE deployed have fiber back-haul deployed on the RAN with GigE or higher. LTE has more capacity per sector than cable DOCSIS-2.0 in Verizon's configuration and the same as DOCSIS-3.0 if VZW doubled the spectrum like the European carriers have (e.g. TeliaSonera). You will get 5-35+Mbps and 5-8Mbps up and pings of 30ms within the RAN and 45-100ms to the internet if it's peered/transit is good. Seriously yes there's bandwidth limits. But I'd rather have bandwidth limits and good pings and performance (cable modem/fiber link) than shitty Clear and under-engineered network where it's slow as molasses since they don't have enough backhaul everywhere.

NO only switching between EVDO rA and LTE. They are COMPLETELY TWO SEPERATE technologies on the BACKEND with different authentication though supposedly with ALU and Ericsson VZW integrated the network cores with the new EPC (Evolved Packet Core)... This is a DRIVER PROBLEM with the LG VL600. The UML290 by Pantech uses a newer Qualcomm chipset and DOESNT HAVE THIS PROBLEM. More of an OEM problem than a network problem... As to the costs... Network building COSTS MONEY. EVERY SINGLE CELL SITE (99.99%) is back-hauled by fiber. Or Microwave of similar capacity if they can't get the fiber at the moment. You want high bandwidth? Pay for the network buildout and fiber backhaul! VZW is doing it right for once.

It's not a driver problem, it's a software problem. If you don't want to use VZAccess you don't have to, you just don't get any support. Anyways if you understand the engineering fundamentals and the technical specifics read this: http://community.vzw.com/t5/4G-Discussion/4G-LTE-Data-stick-Mac-Linux-Windows-other-authentication/td-p/347794 The LTE UML290 card supports standard GSM 3G/4G/LTE stack and works just fine with Apple's generic dialer or the Windows connection thing in Win7 or Linux. The VZAccess support is for the plebs and not developers... You have to run it ONCE in VZAccess though on Windows atm (coming soon for Mac) for authentication and the SIM card programming...

Verizon's LTE implementation as of now is 10+10MHz with 2x2 MIMO. This is 76Mbps down/36Mbps up per sector. In most cell-phone towers in Urban, Sub-urban and Metro areas they have deployed 3-6 sectors. So the max LTE cell-phone tower (eNodeB if you want to get technical) VZW has is 76x6=456Mbps down shared and 36x6=216Mbps up shared per cell site. VZW is using GigE/OC-X SONET fiber back-haul onto their IP-RAN so they can support all the 4G LTE high-speeds. I bet once VZW notices how efficient their new 4G network is since it's ALL-IP they will improve the caps to probably $50/month for 10-20GB usage per month or something like that. People this just launched the other day, you gotta wait over the next few weeks while they notice how the technology scales over time (probably Q1 2011). The data card speeds are INTENTIONALLY being capped to 8-12 with bursts up to 50Mbps down and 3-5 with bursts up to 10Mbps up when there is capacity. If VZW sold you a LTE USB data card and had the SIM provisioned with uncapped like the engineers have then you would take ALL THE BANDWIDTH of the WHOLE TOWER instantly. Obviously VZW with smart network engineering doesn't want that. They want to sell end-users equal bandwidth. The TeliaSonera implementation is double the frequency so double the bandwidth. VZW can do that too if they bought more spectrum from the FCC which they will probably do over time. Happy Holidays all! ;-) PS, for you rural users they still have to run FIBER to the rural cell-site. The caps will dramatically increase over time. Trust me.

Verizon's LTE implementation as of now is 10+10MHz with 2x2 MIMO. This is 76Mbps down/36Mbps up per sector. In most cell-phone towers in Urban, Sub-urban and Metro areas they have deployed 3-6 sectors. So the max LTE cell-phone tower (eNodeB if you want to get technical) VZW has is 76x6=456Mbps down shared and 36x6=216Mbps up shared per cell site. VZW is using GigE/OC-X SONET fiber back-haul onto their IP-RAN so they can support all the 4G LTE high-speeds. I bet once VZW notices how efficient their new 4G network is since it's ALL-IP they will improve the caps to probably $50/month for 10-20GB usage per month or something like that. People this just launched the other day, you gotta wait over the next few weeks while they notice how the technology scales over time (probably Q1 2011). The data card speeds are INTENTIONALLY being capped to 8-12 with bursts up to 50Mbps down and 3-5 with bursts up to 10Mbps up when there is capacity. If VZW sold you a LTE USB data card and had the SIM provisioned with uncapped like the engineers have then you would take ALL THE BANDWIDTH of the WHOLE TOWER instantly. Obviously VZW with smart network engineering doesn't want that. They want to sell end-users equal bandwidth. The TeliaSonera implementation is double the frequency so double the bandwidth. VZW can do that too if they bought more spectrum from the FCC which they will probably do over time. Happy Holidays all! ;-)

Yup. For LTE Verizon requires FIBER backhaul of GigE/OC-48 or higher. If you area has no fiber = NO LTE for now. VZ is investigation the usage of microwave based fiber alternatives for rural areas of LTE deployment for those without access to decent high-speed broadband.

Verizon's LTE implementation as of now is 10+10MHz with 2x2 MIMO. This is 76Mbps down/36Mbps up per sector. In most cell-phone towers in Urban, Sub-urban and Metro areas they have deployed 3-6 sectors. So the max LTE cell-phone tower (eNodeB if you want to get technical) VZW has is 76x6=456Mbps down shared and 36x6=216Mbps up shared per cell site. VZW is using GigE/OC-X SONET fiber back-haul onto their IP-RAN so they can support all the 4G LTE high-speeds. I bet once VZW notices how efficient their new 4G network is since it's ALL-IP they will improve the caps to probably $50/month for 10-20GB usage per month or something like that. People this just launched the other day, you gotta wait over the next few weeks while they notice how the technology scales over time (probably Q1 2011). The data card speeds are INTENTIONALLY being capped to 8-12 with bursts up to 50Mbps down and 3-5 with bursts up to 10Mbps up when there is capacity. If VZW sold you a LTE USB data card and had the SIM provisioned with uncapped like the engineers have then you would take ALL THE BANDWIDTH of the WHOLE TOWER instantly. Obviously VZW with smart network engineering doesn't want that. They want to sell end-users equal bandwidth. The TeliaSonera implementation is double the frequency so double the bandwidth. VZW can do that too if they bought more spectrum from the FCC which they will probably do over time. Happy Holidays all! ;-)

They are hosting on Amazon US West (San Jose) and EU Dublin. Amazon has DDOS defenses on their EC2 (Elastic Compute) 2 cloud (Cisco/Juniper). The DDOS is childish at best. If the US gov't wanted to take it down they could easily ask Amazon to take down the mirror by now... This is more media pandering than anything...

Jesus Christ your company needs to talk to some fucking network engineers for Christ sake in SJC. There's a difference between consumer internet and dedicated internet. You're company can pay as low as $895/month now for 1Gbps dedicated fiber IP-transit (Internet) in SJC. If you're near AMD there's probably fiber-strands on the ground from a Tier-1 carrier that they can sell you with build-out costs ($400-800). I hope your company hires a good network engineer and can manage the BGP routing or get the ISP to manage it for you. Stop shoping for consumer internet and start buying dedicated/real internet with a corporate network engineer (IP-transit, etc...). It's a-lot cheaper than you think due to competition in SJC.

People don't understand what we in the industry called dedicated versus shared internet. Dedicated 1Gbps circuits are now going for as low as $895/month or $2-8/Mb in most US metros from Tier-1 carriers now. That just gets you the network bandwidth and port. There is also build-out or getting your business on-to a dedicated fiber ring in the DC (data-center) from the co-location/data-center.

They have super-fast connections. It's just ISPs taking profits. Dedicated IP-transit ports of GigE or higher in major US metros are now as low as $895/month for 1Gbps. This is of course in the data-center. You have to find your own way to your location. :-)

Shared or dedicated? Who are the IP-transit providers?

I see you're in Manhattan and if you're willing to pay up to $200-$800/month (enterprise class with SLA) you can get dedicated IP-transit of 100M/1Gbps+. This is NOT consumer/small business internet. This is 100% dedicated bandwidth. It may require a BGP-capable router with a network engineer handy if you don't have the experience or get the Tier-1 ISP upstream provider to service it for you. If it's a High-rise most-likely VZ/Cogentco/XO and a few other Tier-1 and upstream providers probably already have GigE/OC-X fiber termination router in the basement and it doesn't cost them much to hook it up. There are a few carrier hotels with Internet exchanges there (Equinix, 111 8th street, a few others, I frogot.) If this is for a business. Check with your high-rise mgmt. and see what carriers have fiber in the basement. Every single high-rise these days has a fiber-termination gear of GigE/10GigE/OC-X in Manhattan due to business needs of certain firms in certain buildings. Bandwidth is available in NYC at reasonable costs, you need to go engineering mode and not buy consumer internet and go dedicated. The costs have dropped dramatically. Your in Silicon Alley in Manhattan and are on 2xT1? WTF? Screw Time Warner, their crap is HFC anyways. Go buy real fiber dedicated IP-transit for your company for usually $1k/month all costs included in Manhattan. There are some big financial/media firms using a shit-load of bandwidth so the costs go down for small businesses. You need to go buy real internet and talk to a network engineer.