Briancs

HBombToo

I live over in Columbia, MO.... Where you at in Illinois? I saw your post about the Cape.

briancs

I live in Carterville right next to Carbondale. About an hour and eight minutes from Cape. Now that is one town I REALLY hate to spell. I always forget how:mad:

HBombToo

Cape G is as far as my spelling goes.
Carbondale is 1 of my Markets and the next time I visit I'll send ya a note and we'll go get a cold 1. Some cool bars in Carbondale... Nice place to live, I bet.

briancs

Your market? What do you do? A nice place to live? Hell half the people think we have winders to warsh;) That would be cool Just drop the line I'm off Wed., Sat., and Sun.. Every week that is.

HBombToo

I'm the Engineering Manager for Sprint PCS over the State of Mo, parts of Ill and KS. All major Markets except the cities of KC and St. Louis.

briancs

Bad ****. I load trailers for a living. Wanna trade;)

Aaron

Since you work for Sprint PCS, do you know when they're going to start rolling out a high-speed data network (1xRTT for CDMA, I think it is)? What about CDMA2000? Just curious.

Aaron

TroyD

HBomb,

I gotta ask man. You seem like a pretty cerebral dude. What is with you being in the Army??

BDT

RuSsMaN

Originally posted by briancs
Bad ****. I load trailers for a living. Wanna trade;)

Man, that struck me FUNNY, nice, very nice......

Cheers,
Russ

TroyD

Brian,

I am in NO way picking on you brotha, but man, I just reread your post and it CRACKS me up. Don't take offense because I mean none, but I'm laughing like a ****

Bad ****, I load trailers for a living....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

BDT

HBombToo

TroyD, My Uncle and GodFather was in the First Air Cav during Nam, 2 Years a door gunner without a scratch, and he was and remains my Hero and favorite person. When I was about 5, I think, me and my Grandmother would put together care packages for him and his friends and I wanted to go in ever since.

Briancs, I don't think you would want the Pain of it all. Trust me when I tell ya, "There is no glory". Nothing wrong with what you do as long as it makes ya happy.

Aaron, You got the right terms my man and this is some bad **** stuff. I can't get dsl or cable modem where I live and run my desktop on 1XRTT. "WAY BETTER THAN PHONE CONNECT!!!" I'm not sure when the official published launch will be but when it hits it gonna hit hard! Here in MO we are 100% 3G 1xRTT which is CDMA2000. We hit burst speeds of up to 153kBits and the next evolution will be more that twice that.

briancs

Troy no offense taken at all:) . It was meant to be funny. HBomb I don't want glory I just want cash:D . No their is not anything wrong with what I do. I just want to do something different;) Like COLLEGE:cool:

Aaron

Aaron, You got the right terms my man and this is some bad **** stuff. I can't get dsl or cable modem where I live and run my desktop on 1XRTT. "WAY BETTER THAN PHONE CONNECT!!!" I'm not sure when the official published launch will be but when it hits it gonna hit hard! Here in MO we are 100% 3G 1xRTT which is CDMA2000. We hit burst speeds of up to 153kBits and the next evolution will be more that twice that.

You use a cellular data connection for your home PC? That's too funny! I always thought of 1xRTT and GPRS as 2.5G technology while CDMA2000 and Edge/UMTS as the "true" 3G technologies. There seems to be a good bit of confusion over this stuff, though. I currently have a CDPD modem for my iPaq PocketPC. The damn thing makes a 28.8 modem seem like broadband. What a nightmare.

Aaron

HBombToo

College is cooooool. I miss it, the babes, make your own time, drink way to much and a lot of good bands in college towns. Don't forget to study though. I saw a lot of smart people get washed out.

You are truely free while you go school and I say GOOOOOOOO!

briancs

Just a couple problems with being able to go.
1. I work 10 hours a day. Which leaves time for two classes a day.
2. A LOT of bills.
3. College costs a lot= more bills
4. I am lazy:mad:

HBombToo

CDMA 2000 is a very broad Engineering term but the CDMA 1XRTT is 3G except the channel bands remain at 1.25Mhz. Early next year we will begin moving toward bandwidth increases on the channels but the protocol stays the same. The investment is complete and CDMA is the Future.

Having worked with AT&T, IS136 TDMA, and involved with CDPD system as an overlay on IS54, that technology has a long way to go to be competitive, even GSM has huge limitations. Frequency hopping SUCKS the big fat 1 and I'm glad I have no parts of that **** anymore. The Frequency Plans alone were a enough to put ya in a funny farm and then overlay CDPD over that, **** no capacity, C/I and SNR was terrible and data rates blew. To even get 19.5 kbps you needed to be on top of the tower. Untill the GSM/IS136 folks migrate to spread spectrum the Sprints and Verizons are the only way to go for the consumer. i-mode!!!!! HYPE that only crazy people would pay for.

TroyD

HBomb....I was just hacking on you man, I respect anyone who gives up 4 yrs for thier country. No offense meant but (and the AF isn't a whole lot different) but there are a LOT of knuckle draggers in the Army.

BDT

HBombToo

TroyD, I didn't take it as a hack at all. You asked a cool question and I gave ya an answer.

Your RIGHT though about knuckle draggers in the Army though, big reason for not staying in. I'm proud to have served and I don't believe I would have made it through college right out of high school so it was good overall. After 4 years in the Army I new 1 thing for sure when I got out, "I wasn't going back!".


Your cool and no offense.

Aaron

So you think GSM and GPRS sucks? I was always under the impression that it was the "best" right now. It seems to pretty much be the standard in Europe and Asia (i.e. everywhere else but here). I believe only Cingular and VoiceStream use it here, but AT&T is ditching TDMA and converting their entire network over to GSM. Although, at this stage of the game I'd think that AT&T would go the route of Edge/UMTS rather than GSM/GPRS.

I know what you mean about getting 19.2kbps with CDPD. It never happens. It's more like 1/2 or 1/3 of that. From my experience in PA, NY, and NJ, the coverage seems to be pretty good with it, though.

Aaron

briancs

I have no idea what you guys are talking about . The bad thing is the thread is even named after me. Ok I know you are talking about connections which is good enough for me

HBombToo

The Far east is primarily CDMA and Wideband in Korea and Japan. Japans #2 carrier is CDMA and has taken the market by storm. China Unicom is CDMA and has split the infrastucture between Lucent and Nortel. I think the Lucent CDMA product is the best in the World even though they have been bludgened on Wallstreet. By the time AT&T is complete with this current upgrade they will be doing another convertion in an effort to catch up. Spread Spectrum CDMA is now being built in the UK and I beleive the rest of Europe will start deployments. The capacity of CDMA is awsome. 1 carrier of 1 sector can handle 61 simultaneous voice calls. WOW its cool stuff.

Steve@3dai

So HBombToo, who do you feel is the best carrier right now and in the future? I have Cingular at the moment, and get good reception here in Austin, TX but I want to get a carrier that is prepared for the new stuff faster (I'm a geek). I just wonder if SprintPCS has signal at my apartment now...

HBombToo

Steve, you should at least give SPCS a shot when they launch 3G in your area. I don't really have a preference in carriers per say, just the technology. For high speed data and system reliability CDMA is the way. But for any technology if you don't have the coverage your hosed. Verizon and SPCS are my first picks because of CDMA. I have a few friends from the past at Cingular and they like it. From all the Baby Bells I believe Cingular and Verizon are the best positioned for the future even though Cingular is not CDMA.

Its good being a geek and phones are cool. I like and own the Motorola Timeport now, best xmitter and rcvr on the market in my opinion. I'll waite for Motorola to launch a 3G mobile before I buy 1 for myself. Untill then I'll ride whatever I get from the company. I have 1 of the first 3G Samsung A500's and it is sweeeet. Download Pics on the screen all kind of internet features, can do VPN and so much more but I'll still waite for Motorola.

Aaron

Thanks for the info. By the way, what's your real name? I'm sick of typing "HBomb."

Aaron

TroyD

So, you guys think I should ditch the bag phone? That sucker is getting pretty tedious to carry around.

BDT

HBombToo

TroyD, keep the bag phone for 911 calls.

I'm not sure you know this but even if the phone is not on an account you can still make emergency calls. The bag phones transmitters are rated @ 1.6 watts and thats a lot of power now for a phone.

Henry

nascarmann

HBombToo

I though they were 3 watts?

TroyD

Ima keep it, I think. It matches my parachute pants and my glacier glasses.

BDT

RuSsMaN

And don't forget your 'Get Smart' cone of silence.......

-R

HBombToo

You might be right nascarmann... Remember the big Motorola Bricks, they were 3 watts along with the original car installs but now you have me thinking.

I have a great memory, Its just short....

TroyD

The lovely Wendi had one of the original car mounted phones in her car and it was 3 watts.

BDT