EVDO TurboCharge, How to Make EVDO Faster! |
| Wednesday, 23 February 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article will describe TurboCharging your EVDO PC 5220 card. Here are the current ways to speed up your EVDO PC Cards:
Something new that can help EVDO, is the Google Web Accelerator (more info | discuss on EVDO Forums) The EVDO Antenna gives you the most consisitent performance increase. The TurboCharge (decribed below), will give you best performance if you are in a 1-3 bar EVDO area. If you are consistently in a 4 bar EVDO, the performance gain from TurboCharging will be small. Venturi Compression will downsize graphics and do some additional compression, to give the illusion of a speed increase. If you are downloading a 20mb file, guess what, you still have to move 20mb, compression may not help. There has been some mixed results with TCP Compression (see EVDO Forums). EVDOinfo.com is now selling the utlimate PDF. For only $69, you can purchase our 20+ page PDF, that will show you how to get 2X - 3X performance (your performance may vary) out of your existing PC 5220 card. This is an immediate download, so you can start really using your EVDO within minutes. All current stock PC 5220 cards are not configured to pull in all the available bandwidth. Our PDF will step you through speeding up your PC 5220 card. We recently did a test in a 2 bar EVDO area, and we received the following download speeds:  Then we applied Speed up technique to a stock PC 5220 card. Without switching locations, exactly 2 minutes later, we did another test and got this:  We went from 347K download to 1084K download. Imagine if we were in a 4 bar area! Please understand, this is not using the Venturi Compression software, which can greatly exaggerate test results. This is NOT using some TCP Tweak. This is raw speed. BTW, our PDF discusses the Venturi Compression Software in great detail (it is a free download for current Verizon customers). We conducted more benchmark tests on March 19, 2005 near Chicago and here are the results: Here is a stock PC 5220 card.  Next, we applied the TurboCharge steps to the card and immediately ran the tests again:  Now we wanted to test the results under Mac OS X, so we reverted the card to stock settings, and ran on a PowerBook G4 15 inch, 1.5ghz and got this:  Since the TurboCharge can only be done a Windows computer, we inserted the card back in the PC laptop, applied the turbocharge settings, and then inserted into the PowerBook and reran the tests and got this:  The above 4 tests were conducted all within 5 minutes of one another. I cannot explain the large difference in performance between Mac and Windows during this test. I have seen the same test get flipped around. It may have been that the test server that I used (the same was used for all reports), was busier when I tested under Windows and was not so busy when I tested under Mac. If you only use a Mac, do not get the TurboCharge guide, since it requires a PC to implement. If you travel with both Mac and PC Laptops, then you can use this with your Mac. Why wouldn't you want to always keep the card in TurboCharge mode? If you leave a EVDO area, your card will no longer pick up a 1xRTT signal, it will say "No Coverage". So, you need to switch back when in non EVDO coverage areas.
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We do sell a $69 Turbo Guide that is ONLY for PC 5220 users on Windows. More info on EVDO Turbo Guide (and instant download). |
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