I just purchased an hour of Pilot's WiFi to test it out and see if it was fast enough to buy a larger package, and I'm very disappointed in the snail like speed of this wireless. Speakeasy shows a speed of 390/kbps which is about 200 short of what you need for minimum quality viewing of shows on Hulu or Fancast or any other decent streaming service. I have the Verizon aircard which is more often than not fast enough to watch TV, but the five gig ceiling only allows you about 20 hours of shows a month which is nowhere near enough to feed my habit. Has anyone found a Pilot with fast enough wireless speeds? I'm at the Memphis IN Pilot and there might be 40 trucks here so I doubt it's an overloaded network issue, anyone else have any experiences with the Pilot WiFi good or bad and locations?
Is Pilot's WiFi fast enough to watch Hulu?
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by cplmac2, Apr 19, 2009.
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Are you on a contract with the verizon? If you can get out of it reasonably then switch to millenicom which is still unlimited.
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I'm on a contract with Verizon, but I'd be willing to eat the termination fee to get on with a truely unlimited plan that had sufficient speed and bandwidth to watch TV. I've got a USB TV tuner but it's grossly incompetent. I've really been thinking about getting the VoQube, I already have a satellite box on subscription at home doing nothing but DVR'ing my shows while I'm away. May as well bring it with me and hook it up to the Qube and get TV in the truck.
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It's usually fast enough to watch Hulu. The trick is you have to pause it for a few minutes and let it buffer. That's what I use to do until I got my Sprint card.
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You spend too much time watching hulu with a sprint or verizon card and you're going to get hammered with overage fees if you have a new account, cancelled if you have an old account. -
Wi-fi speed at Pilot is hit or miss. Some days it's like lightning, others it's slower than moleasses in January.
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4G is the "Holy Grail" for mobile video when it comes out....http://www.macworld.com/article/138882/2009/02/att_opts_for_longterm_evolution_rollout_in_2011.html
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when i'm in "ATT 2G hell" LOL
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