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It is the new name for the EVDO service, that offers the option of having high-speed wireless access to the Internet.

MOVE lets you connect with different equipment or options like a PCMCIA card would be, the portable modem (Axesstel) and/or any cell phone equipment with EVDO technology with the option to use like a modem, whether its USB cable or without cables (via Bluetooth), with a velocity of to 400-700 Kbps and maximum velocity of 2.4 Mbps.

MOVE from Verizon Wireless is one of the fastest solutions for mobile data available in the market. With our wireless PC card and your laptop, you can connect to the Internet, to your office’s network and your e-mail from anywhere.

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By Jacqui Cheng | Published: March 26, 2007 - 02:50PM CT

EVDO Revision A is already old and busted—get ready for EVDO Revision B.

Chipset maker Qualcomm has announced its roadmap to upgrade EVDO chipsets—both with new hardware and software updates to offer backward compatibility in older models. The company claims that during its tests on EVDO Rev. B they saw an average data rate of 9.3Mbps down, via the 5MHz spectrum—a drastic increase over Rev. A’s 800kbps download speed.

“The evolution of CDMA2000 networks from EVDO Rev. A to EVDO Rev. B allows network operators to remain leading-edge in their service and performance offerings without the need for any infrastructure hardware changes,” said Qualcomm CEO Dr. Sanjay K. Jha in a statement. The key is the lack of significant infrastructure hardware change, which means that uptake in the US should be good.

If Rev. B is truly this good (and it may not be, as I’ll get to in a minute), streaming video to mobile phones could potentially become an enjoyable experience. Qualcomm has another usage in mind, too: VoIP.

9.3Mbps download would be a dream come true to many mobile users—particularly traveling businesspeople who rely on EVDO for the constant net connection—but we know very well that actually achieving that kind of download speed anywhere outside of Fantasy Island is unlikely in the near future. Verizon, which currently supports EVDO Rev. A, says that users should expect perfomance to be lower than the theoretical maximum, going down as far as 450kbps down—just a hair above the halfway mark of the advertised max (800 kbps) for Rev. A. But even half of the advertised speed for Rev. B, roughly 4.6Mbps, would still be a major upgrade from EVDO Rev. A.

According to the company, the software update for Qualcomm’s older EVDO hardware, the CSM6800, will be available by the end of this week. There is no time frame specified for when US carriers might adopt EVDO Rev. B, but given that Qualcomm plans to roll out its new hardware, the MSM7850, later this year, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Sprint or Verizon upgrade their handsets and EVDO cards soon thereafter. The question is, will they also update their fees?

Source: EVDO Blog|EVDO info

Pros

* No need to insert a card, mobile broadband always available
* Nothing to lose or damage, it is built-in

Cons

*Horrible Support (read below)
*No option for external antennas
*No options for external amplifiers
*Hard / impossible to upgrade
*If you upgrade the laptop to one without embedded EVDO, you have to pay retail for new
EVDO card
*Adds to cost of initial laptop purchase (no they are not free)
*Firmware updates / Connection Manager updates from Manufacturer NOT carrier

Some of the newer Sony, Dells, HPs and others are now including embedded EVDO as an option. On the surface, this sounds like a good idea.

But, what are the Pros & Cons of having EVDO embedded (built-in) or as an addon via PCMCIA, ExpressCard or USB?

More on Support:

I purchased a Sony TX model with embedded EVDO Rev A when it first came out (first laptop that had embedded Rev A EVDO). After we received the first one, it was working for a few days and then we started having connection problems with our Sony TX10. I decided to recover and reformat the hard drive and that DIDN’T help, the once working internal EVDO modem stopped working. I returned the unit and got a second unit.

I got the second unit working quickly and all was well. When I started having connection problems, I decided to do what is called a ##RTN which is a trick to reset the modem back to factory settings (I did this on the first unit too). Once again, we reformatted and recovered back to factory and still, we couldn’ t use the embedded EVDO device. The device would show signal strength, BUT wouldn’t connect. I knew the account was OK, because it was previously working. I just got a “Unable to update device”.

Now, here is where the “fun” begins.

Embedded EVDO modems are a lot like illegitimate children. When I called Sprint, they told me that they didn’t provide support for embedded devices, we would have to call the manufacturer. When we call Sony, do you think they have a lot of people on staff that know the internal workings of the embedded EVDO devices? Nope! So, now we get into a finger pointing contest. Bottom line, the embedded EVDO device is not working, so I reverted to using my trusty EVDO cards from Sprint and Verizon, those always work.

Now, since we are a Sprint Master Agent, and we have a lot of contacts at Sprint, I decided to see what we can find out. According to contacts within Sprint Tech Support, they confirm that if you do the ##RTN trick to reset the modem, you can actually damage the modem and you are unable to use it any more. OUCH! Here is what we found out:

“Novatel had an issue with their pre-production 720’s that caused IOTA to consistently fail after the module is refurbed using ##RTN, which sounds like what is happening here. The fix was to send the modules back to Novatel…”

I wonder how many people of embedded laptops will have the same fate? Was this a problem only with the first batch of units or is this still a problem with the current shipping units?

If you are considering getting a laptop with embedded EVDO, you might want to consider an EVDO PCMCIA, ExpressCard or USB mobile broadband device.

So… Sony, Sprint or Novatel, how can I get a replacement for my embedded EVDO modem?

MB6800 is a new 3G mobile router in TOP Global’s MobileBridge family. It leverages 3G wireless with Wi-Fi technology and offers up to 4 Ethernet ports for local computers, printers or other network devices.

Easily connection to high-speed 3G cellular networks (no additional requirements for software, drivers or interfaces) and fast implementation makes MB6800 an ideal fast Internet access solution for home and SME.

The MB6800 is 7.5″ wide, 5.5″ deep an only 1″ tall.

The MB6800 supports the following devices:

EVDO Rev. A: Sierra AC595; Novatel S720; Pantech PX-500r
EVDO: Sierra AC580, PC5220; Novatel V620, S620? XV620;Kyocera KPC650; Audiovox PC5740
HSDPA: Sierra AC860, AC850, AC875;Novatel U730, U740, XU870;Huawei E620; OPTION Trotter
UMTS:Novatel U530, U630;OPTION Fusion, GT Max;Vodafone Card

The MB68000 has the following features:

* DHCP Server
* DNS Relay
* Bridge between LAN & WLAN
* Auto-Reconnect
* Dial On Demand
* NAPT between LAN and WWAN
* IP Port Forwarding
* DMZ Support
* MAC access control
* NTP
* OFDM Technology

Industry Leading Firewall Features
* NAPT/ Port Forwarding
* SPI
* MAC Filter
* Anti-Attack
* URL Filter
* VPN pass-through for IPSec and PPTP
* WPA
* 64-bit WEP & 128-bit RC4
encryption
* Closed system