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. 🙂
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. 😉
what’s the evdoinfo.com tip?
i would love to get a bit of a boost on my sprint evdo.
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:
https://alexking.org/blog/2007/01/06/opendns
alba: I think the tip was, to put in OpenDNS’s server addresses into EVDO Network Preference.
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).