Sprint BroadBand (Was: Speeding up File Transfers)

[Tyler Hall]

I don't want to go off on this subject, but I see Craig has great success
with sprint, me on the other hand, thinks it sucks.  We have it in
mesa/gilbert (Baseline/Mesa Dr) and it's terrible.  We've had it for a few
months now, and it goes down atleast once a week.  They are always having
"connection problems in Phoenix"  Unfortunally cable isn't available in that
area, or DSL right now.  So, this is all were left up to.  Of course, it's
better then a 56k modem, but not worth the $70 we pay for it.

-Tyler ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: RE: Speeding up File Transfers


> This may be of interest but I am quite happy with Sprint Broadband service
> myself and I have a bunch of customers that I have set up and they are
happy
> with it too...
> <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2767061,00.html>
>
> and a speed test site...
> <http://www.dslreports.com/stest/0,>
>
> I think there are some misconceptions about Sprint Broadband.
>
> If you can download their test files are near rated speeds - this tests
the
> speed of your connection to Sprint and if it's working. I found that I
have
> twice had to pull the power cable not only on the broadband modem but also
> the antenna feed to the roof - it also has power requirements. This seem
to
> reset everything.
>