Archives for March, 2010
SXSW Trending on Twitter
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Look at the rise in the term “SXSW” over the last few days on Twitter:
4G Performance, Part III: More from Austin
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
I got back to my hotel room this evening and attempted to have a video chat with my wife and kids. While fun, the video quality on my end was horrendous – which prompted me to do some more testing. I ran a test on Speedtest.net and got pretty awesome results, 7.01 Mbits up and [...]
Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G Performance, Part II
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
My first road trip with the Overdrive and I had pretty high hopes. I’m at SXSW in Austin, so I figured bandwidth would be a problem for AT&T given the number of iPhone toting geeks concentrated within a several block radius. I thought I’d be in the clear with 4G access via Sprint’s network. Unfortunately, [...]
Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G Performance
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
A couple of days ago, I ordered a Sierra Wireless Overdrive 3G/4G wireless hotspot from Sprint. I’ve only had the chance to use it a couple of times so I’m withholding judgement on performance until I’ve tried to use it in real world situations. I live in Raleigh, NC which is one of Sprint’s 4G [...]