We’ve only gotten the hands on the less-insane chronicle of Verizon’s LTE modems, a LG VL600. The company timed the shipment of these puppies to happen at the same time with today’s announcement of a coming 4G assault, set to proceed December 5th — which based on what we’ve seen to illustrate far is starting to be beyond overwhelming. Unless you’re on the Mac (more upon that after a mangle.

In box you haven’t seen the device in question, it’s the rather than vast (we meant severely vast USB dongle, that thankfully comes with a clip as well as extra wire. Like all LTE devices, it uses a SIM which will look informed to those in GSM devices, though is — again — roughly comically large.
LG VL600 LTE modem

We haven’t outlaid the bucket of time with the modem, though in a few short hours we’ve had to play with a device, the down- as well as upstream speeds we’re getting have been zero short of phenomenal. In Brooklyn, that we’re not even certain is unequivocally heavily lonesome by a LTE sweeping (and was being battered by rain as well as breeze at a time of contrast, you saw unchanging speeds that peaked at 7 Mbps down, as well as over 1 Mbps up. Overall, speeds held solid around 5 to 6 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. By comparison, you saw around 4 Mbps down as well as reduction than 1 Mbps up when you did a little contrast with Sprint’s WiMAX Overdrive 4G, and rounded off 6.5 Mbps down as well as 1 Mbps up with Clear’s iSpot.

Overall, browsing on the computer felt nearly identical to our home broadband, and even HD video playback on YouTube was poignant as well as responsive over a network. And did you mention we were only getting dual out of 4 bars upon our tie?

That’s not the say the knowledge wasn’t but its downsides. One major roadblock to total happiness here is that Verizon hasn’t seen fit to include any Mac support for these inclination. That means that anybody rolling with Apple rigging is going to take backseat while a driver hack appears, or Verizon stops sleeping at a circle as well as takes caring of the alternative half. We additionally saw some issues with connectivity (abrupt tie loss, specifically), yet as we said, we’ve been testing in North Brooklyn, which may not be lapping up the extract as straightforwardly as a little areas in Manhattan.

Regardless, if you’ve got a PERSONAL COMPUTER and the need for a little genuine bandwidth on the highway, Verizon’s LTE rollout is seeking better with any passing moment. If you weren’t completely sole on this technology as the real contender for the destiny of cellular networks before today, we positively can’t say a same right now.

Via Engadget