I moved into a new place this weekend, and of course it’s going to take Comcast the requisite week to turn on service in an apartment already fully wired and prepped for their service. /me looks around and shrugs. So I went and picked up an EV-DO card from Verizon so that I can at least be connected for the next week while at home. Here’s the DSL reports numbahz:

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-08-13 20:55:42 EST:
669 / 93
Your download speed : 669 kbps or 83.7 KB/sec.
That is 66.4% better than an average user on myvzw.com

Your upload speed : 93 kbps or 11.6 KB/sec.
That is 51.3% worse than an average user on myvzw.com

Not bad, not bad at all. However, as I’m not a Verizon customer and not at all interested in the phones on their network. The service is kinda cripplingly expensive. However I have 15 days to try it out and see if I want to keep the service. So I’ll be hauling lappy all over the place and testing out signal, checking the speed.

What I would like to do with it after this period of non-connectivity is over is get it working with some Linux based devices. So I’ll have to dig around some and check out if this thing will even work under Linux. It came with a CD full of software, but I’m hoping that the “Manager” application is just a convenience thing, and that the whole slew of devices that came up in the detection box when I plugged the thing in were just superfluous “ease of use” add-ons. Only time and forum postings will tell however.