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Review Of Verizon's New Wireless Network

Posted by timothy on from the time-and-place-restrictions dept.

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."

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  1. Suspicious... by twilightzero · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:huh? by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    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".

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  3. Re:Kickass.. by kid-noodle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bastards.

    They ruined my joke!

    Since when did /. fix speeling errors that fast?

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  4. Re:huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. oh yeah... by Cynikal · · Score: 5, Funny

    can you IM me now? good....

  6. Verizon by Mori+Chu · · Score: 5, Funny
    "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.

  7. Re:Nice, but how about bluetooth? by Smitty825 · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  8. woohoo! by Cynikal · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  9. wtf? by U.I.D+754625 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  10. It's probably a misprint... by bcore · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..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.

    1. Re:It's probably a misprint... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


      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

  11. My only doubt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Only one question remains:

    Is it 6,000 times faster than DSL?

    (sorry, but someone had to say it)

  12. I wasnt impressed. by Gen.+Malaise · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?"

  13. Re:Poor poor Mac... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Funny
    I...............Love...........you.........

  14. Re:huh? by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  15. Commercials by Lord+Prox · · Score: 3, Funny

    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]

    1. Re:Commercials by shirai · · Score: 3, Funny

      [...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?
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