Posted on: June 8th, 2009 by Famous Phil

In this post I’m going to detail my first week with the MagicJack. This device converts a USB port into a Phone Jack that is compatible with any landline phone that you might have around the house.  I will touch on clarity and ease of use.

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Tags: call, clearity, evdo, landline, magicjack, skype, university at buffalo, voip, yahoo
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Posted on: June 7th, 2009 by Famous Phil

This is part 3/3 of my evdo quest for fast internet.  In this post I hope to explain the shortcomings of all of my available options for internet access and which one turns out to be the best.  I will be providing several screenshots of different internet connection methods to prove a point including actual ping trials.  I actually had to borrow a dialup account to do this and was sort of unsuccessful at obtaining a speedtest (so I had to borrow one).

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Tags: allowance, bandwidth, broadband, comparison, dialup, evdo, fast, hughesnet, latency, ping, reliability, rev 0, rev a, satellite, signal, speed, speedtest, stability, strength, wildblue
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Posted on: June 4th, 2009 by Famous Phil

This is part 2/3 of my EVDO quest.  This is where I’m going to post pictures and detail my setup. I will also mention a few technical details of the different types of mobile internet and what is what.  This will focus mostly on the Verizon network.  My next blog will compare dial up, satellite, and evdo with in depth technical analysis.  Lets get into the details shall we?

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Tags: 3g, at&t, cband, cel, cell, evdo, phone, rev 0, rev a, speed, tower, verizon, wi-ex, yx500, zboost
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Posted on: May 31st, 2009 by Famous Phil

As always, I feel the need to blurb about something.  This time I want to do a technical blurb about high speed internet.  Inside this post you will find my letter to New York State Senator Young regarding internet in my area.  It attempts to explain why land based internet is the best internet connection.  Its a worthy read especially after reading the below material (there is an inaccuracy in this letter explained below) : Letter to Senator Young

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Tags: bluelight, catharine young, dial up, dialup, evdo, kmart, lag, latency, satellite internet, senator, verizon, wildblue
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