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Monday, July 17, 2006
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 Monday, July 17, 2006
started 7/17/2006; 5:09:58 PM - last post 7/18/2006; 4:36:57 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, July 17, 2006 
7/17/2006; 9:09:58 PM (reads: 5798, responses: 4)
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Well, *that* didn't work. 
| | We're hanging with family at three different beach houses, and Verizon's signal on the Treo at each of them ranges from nothing to one little bar. I can get on the Web with the Treo if I walk down to the ocean, about 300 feet from the deck of the beach house where we're staying. Sometimes I can get it from the deck itself, if I wander around mumbling curses and appeals to deities. |
| | This isn't true just for my Treo. There are three other Verizon phones here at the beach, and all of them are useless. As my cousin Kelly puts it, "I get a signal if I stand hip deep in low tide." |
| | I'm not sure if this constitutes bait-and-swith by Verizon, but it's certainly a wait-and-bitch situation for customers. |
| | Meanwhile the old nearly crapped-out Cingular phone, a Sony-Ericsson T637, rocks. The signal is a full five bars, everywhere around. |
| | Unfortunately, I wiped out the settings for getting on the Net via the T637's bluetooth/GPRS setup, so I stayed off the air through the whole weekend, plus this morning. Now it's 12:18pm, and I'm at the Flying Pig coffee house, which has free wi-fi and great service. Much appreciated. |
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Doug Kaye - Sprint EVDO Mojo
7/17/2006; 10:34:19 PM (reads: 1028, responses: 0)
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Last week I managed to get my G4 PowerBook up and running on EVDO using a Sprint Novatel Merlin S620 card. Not painless, but it *is* supported directly by a driver in OS X 10.4.7. I don't have any interesting benchmarks on performance or coverage yet.
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Avdi - The Flying Pig
7/18/2006; 1:26:13 AM (reads: 1020, responses: 1)
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Yay for the Flying Pig! Good coffee, and the owner, Becky, is quite nice. I spent a number of comfortable hours there this past spring.
Don't miss the beach at the extreme south end of the island. It has the best shells.
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Adam Fields - Re: Monday, July 17, 2006
7/18/2006; 8:36:57 PM (reads: 1004, responses: 0)
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It is very possible that you simply need to "update the software" on the phone.
Press #228, send, then follow the prompts - 1 to "program your phone", or 2 to update the "roaming capabilities".
The Verizon techs were unclear about what this actually does (I suspect it's something to do with the list of tower locations), but it is definitely tied to signal strength, especially when roaming away from your home area (even if you're still on the digital network).
Verizon recommends that you do this once a month.
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Doc Searls - Re: The Flying Pig
7/19/2006; 3:20:36 AM (reads: 1220, responses: 0)
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Nice place. The AC has a hard time with the extreme heat, but otherwise, no complaints.
We've been down to the far end of the Island a number of times. Will go back, too.
Doc
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