Testing EVDO at Starbucks

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by Dave Winer.

This is the real use-case, I'm paying for my EVDO by cancelling my Tmobile wifi account, that would let me get on the net at almost any Starbucks. So the real test of the EVDO is how well it performs at Starbucks. I'm at the store on Solano and Colusa in Berkeley.  

Here's an idea of the kind of performance you get downloading a podcast, again from Starbucks via EVDO. Approx 120KB per second for an 11.4MB file. Quite usable. 

Four bars, 1/2 hour of connectivity with no problems.