Wireless broadband at home, do you do it?

Business_diskette_204660I have used wireless broadband since back in the old 1xRTT days, the slow precursor to the EV-DO Rev. A I currently enjoy.  There’s something to be said for the ability to jump online no matter where you are, and today being able to do that at high speed is even better.  I have been thinking a lot about my EV-DO connectivity lately and wondered if it’s something I could live with at home.  The speeds are nowhere near the cable broadband I have at home but more than fast enough for everything if push came to shove.

Just last week Kevin and I were trying to troubleshoot a network problem we’ve been having using iChat for video and to test it out we had several video chats using EV-DO.  We both use Verizon’s wireless service and we were both blown away how our video sessions were indistinguishable from the super-broadband equivalent.  That’s about the hardest thing you can do to tax the wireless service and it held up admirably, even when we were using it on both ends of the call.  This drove home the fact that if either (or both) of us decided to drop the expensive broadband and stick with the EV-DO service at home we could easily do so.  It’s not something that I’m likely to do, I loves me some broadband for sure.  It does gets me to wondering though, do any of you use 3G only even at home?  If so leave a comment and share what your experience has been.  Sometimes mobile comes home to roost, you know.

UPDATE:  GigaOM looks at this issue today in response to a survey that shows there are in fact quite a few folks using 3G at home.

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