Faster wireless on the horizon

There’s been a lot of misreporting of Verizon’s new 1xEV-DO service; the WSJ yesterday called it “Wi-Fi you can tote around.” THis is way wrong, since WiFi offers 1Mbps up to 11Mbps for 802.11b, with faster speeds for 802.11g and 802.11a and 1xEV-DO seems to top out around 200Kbps or so. However, this is still a nice improvement over Verizon’s existing 1xRTT (“Express Network”) service, which tops out at 144Kbps. Alan Reiter has some speed tests of 1xEV-DO, and they look pretty promising.