[lug] Kite Net

[Nate Duehr]

Jason Vallery wrote:
> I find the quality of service very poor, especially when I am moving 
> around town.  I subscribed when it became first available but quickly 
> canceled my account because I rarely found it useful.  Now that it is 
> free I occasionally connect up with my iPhone when I am about town, but 
> it often just doesn't work for me.
> 
> On a related note, I just signed up for the 3G service from AT&T and it 
> is AMAZING.  I'm consistently seeing speeds of 1.5Mbps all over the 
> Longmont, Boulder, Firestone area on my laptop, even while riding in a 
> moving vehicle.

Yeah, a lot of folks don't realize that AT&T/Cingular/whatever they like 
to call themselves these days, recently upgraded much of the 
Denver/Boulder/Front Range areas with UMTS base stations for 3G high 
speed services.

GSM networks (those that have deployed new gear) aren't the "slow 
bastard childen" of the mobile data networks anymore, wallowing around 
slowly behind CDMA's speed.

Sprint and Verizon have a new (viable) competitor... maybe price drops 
and a price war soon?  (We can dream, can't we?)

Nate