If you’ve been following my Twitter updates you know I was on my EVDO card quite a bit this weekend. As a result, I’ve got some knowledge to drop. 
- Sprint’s DNS servers are s-l-o-w! Use OpenDNS and get a big performance boost. I thought I was already doing this, but Mac OS X gives you the ability to set different DNS servers for each network location and I hadn’t put the OpenDNS servers in for my EVDO card. Thanks to Alex at EVDOinfo.com for reaching out with the tip.
- Apple provides drivers for most of the EVDO cards out there, but these drivers are Intel-only. If you bought your EVDO card from EVDOinfo.com, they will give you PowerPC friendly drivers and nice step-by-step installation instructions. I’ve now got my EVDO card working on my old PowerBook G4 as well as my MacBook. I plan to install the drivers on my desktop machine (PowerMac G5) too so that I can plug in the EVDO card when my DSL craps out.
- Sprint’s network along I-80 has gotten a lot better over the last 2 years. You can reasonably expect to stay connected all the way through Nebraska. If you bring enough power (or 2 laptops), you can get a bit done on the road.
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Brett adds this Comment:
My wife gives me a ton of shit for typing on my sidekick while driving. I’d hate to see what she’d make of me whipping out the full laptop.
April 10th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
alba adds this Comment:
what’s the evdoinfo.com tip?
i would love to get a bit of a boost on my sprint evdo.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
EVDOInfo adds this Comment:
The tip was reminding alex to use opendns.
we have an article on opendns, here:
http://www.evdoinfo.[...]iew/1903/63/
and alex has a blogpost about it as well:
http://alexking.org/[...]1/06/opendns
April 11th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Jasmeet adds this Comment:
alba: I think the tip was, to put in OpenDNS’s server addresses into EVDO Network Preference.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Chris adds this Comment:
Love the tips. I’m in the market for an EVDO card soon, but I’m still tied to bluetooth dial-up right yet (just enough to check email…lol).
April 19th, 2007 at 7:07 pm