My day started at 4:30 when the alarm jolted me out of bed. Yes, there IS a 4:30 in the morning too. The early day was because I went into Big Oil Co. in downtown Houston where my work day started at 6:15, also in the am. When I work at Big Oil Co. I have an office and I set up my HP 2710p to get a bunch of work done. Even though they have WiFi available since they are not my only client I don’t like all of my email passing through the Big Oil Co. servers which would violate my confidentiality agreements with other clients so the first thing I do is plug the Verizon v740 ExpressCard EV-DO modem so I can tap into the Rev. A speeds of the fastest wireless broadband available to me. I connect to the Verizon BroadbandAccess network first thing and I stay connected to it the entire time I am working in the office there. The bandwidth is so good I forget I am not on a WiFi connection and I rarely, almost never in fact, have trouble with my connection. At one point today I received three emails from someone that had attachments from 7 MB to 14 MB big and they came in so fast I didn’t realize how big they were until I opened them in PowerPoint. Mid-morning I had a meeting on another floor so I swiveled the screen into slate mode and headed off to the meeting. It wasn’t until I started receiving email that I realized my connection had survived a ride in the elevator and excursion to a conference room buried in the middle of a floor in the 30+ floor high-rise. The connection never faltered. I love my EV-DO.
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