Review Of Verizon's New Wireless Network

jagger writes "The service gives you the speed of broadband, the ease of WiFi and the coverage of cellular... sort of. The service is currently rolled out in Washington D.C. and San Diego, CA but offers speeds comparable to broadband. Read the full review from Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post at Yahoo News."

Suspicious...

[twilightzero]

Sounds too much like a Ginsu..."It slices, it dices, it can even cut a steel can! Call now, operators are standing by!" Personally I'm a bit suspicious of products that claim to do everything, they invariably do at least half the stuff they claim but are good at none of it.

Re:huh?

[pyrrhonist]

boradband?

This is probably why there aren't a lot of posts to this article, yet. Every Slashdot reader is frantically trying to order "boradband".

Re:Kickass..

[kid-noodle]

Bastards.

They ruined my joke!

Since when did /. fix speeling errors that fast?

Re:huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you kidding me? "boradband" has over 4,300 hits on Google [google.com]! This technology is hot stuff!

oh yeah...

[Cynikal]

can you IM me now? good....

Verizon

[Mori Chu]

"The service gives you the speed of broadband, the ease of WiFi and the coverage of cellular..."

Sadly, it also gives you the quality of Verizon.

Re:Nice, but how about bluetooth?

[Smitty825]

If it was on slashdot, then it _can't_ be wrong!!!! :-)

woohoo!

[Cynikal]

now i can download my mp3's and screener iso's while leading the RIAA and MPAA's lawyers on a high speed chase!

you cant sue me until you catch me and serve me with a summons :P
nyah nyah now im in mexico :P

wtf?

[U.I.D 754625]

Verizon says BroadbandAccess's downloads should average 3oo to 500 kilobits per second (kbps) and can hit 2 million bits per second (Mbps) at best.

...and I thought slashdot editors were bad! I get 3oo kilobits per second myself though.

It's probably a misprint...

[bcore]

..up here in Ontario, Rogers cable offers boredband, where you click on links just like usual, then get bored waiting for pr0n on their so called "high speed network". It fucking rocks.

My only doubt

[Anonymous Coward]

Only one question remains:

Is it 6,000 times faster than DSL?

(sorry, but someone had to say it)

I wasnt impressed.

[Gen. Malaise]

I was troubleshooting a problem that my client was having today, so I traced his IP and found a misconfigured (jacked) router on the "myvzw" network. The thing was routing packets to itself, preventing anything from sending data to him........ "Can you get packets now?"

Re:It's probably a misprint...

[Anonymous Coward]

perhaps instead of looking at pr0n you could go outside and get the real deal, sure it might cost you dinner for a few weeks but after the trial you get it for a really low fee

Re:Poor poor Mac...

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

I...............Love...........you.........

Re:huh?

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

Where can I get some of this Boradband, I need some RIGHT NOW!

Commercials

[Lord Prox]

I can see the commercial now...

[Annoying Verizon twit walking around in wannabe geek attire]
Can you ping me now?
[Pauses so camera gan see uber-cool propritary branded gadget BS]
Goood
[Walks off stage leaving camera showing oh-so self-important suits and wanna-be geek types watching in "shock and awe"]
[...and que fine print at bottom of screen scrolling so fast a hamster on crack can't even read it and Verizon Logo]

Re:Commercials

[shirai]

[...and que fine print at bottom of screen scrolling so fast a hamster on crack can't even read it and Verizon Logo]

Which is not to say very fast at all and furtherm.. wha? Holy shit! Your hamster can read?