Hi, I'm in the middle of no where and have lovely dial up service, and was looking at using my Motorola MOTORAZR V3a as my desktop modem, however I'm told by the alltel store rep that Motorola screwed up with this phone in that area, and that the connection is slower than dial up. I know it only uses 1x instead of EV-DO but I was hoping it would be an upgrade Anyway, does anyone have any more information on this?
1X can get you speeds slightly faster than dial up, but it could be slower - just like EVDO can get you speeds similiar to broadband but can be slower.
But is there a known issue with the phone that could cause this to be slower regardless? And what are my chances of good internet speeds with 1x when my phone gets 3-4 bars
1x is roughly x2 (current dial up 56.6) how ever QDN? is max transfer rate of 14.4 which is origional phone speeds without compresion algorithoms and the thretical max of stander phone lines so EV = EVDO is great, 1x = 1x is ok, (2 time dial-up) [D] = qns or whatever (unless your viewing text only web pages this is really slow by modern standards more of a backup) also consider it is a wireless data network and has speed loss simalre to wi-fi farther distance = less speed / low signal = more noise interferance in the line (i know, i know, no noise in frequency modulated signals i mean overall quality of the signal) i belive the thertical max of EV is 3MB/s my cable modem is 2MB/s
Its around that for rev A, .....Rev 0 is around 2.4MB v3a.....alltel should be given 50 lashes in public for releasing it. But thats in the past. You should be able to find plenty of used v3m's for under $100 or get another EV capable phone. Of course you always have the data card route.
Alltel is adding EV fairly fast and the Sprint EV prl should be coming fairly soon. Hang on, you may just get EV soon....
signal does matter when using your phone as a modem. I use my V3m as a modem, and even though it is EV, if my signal strength is low, my speed is slow.
