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Google Earth-Breach of Contract?
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Posted by: Fox McCloud

If, when I use my V710 as a modem to connect to the internet, I use Google-Earth, is this technically against their ToS, or not?

Posted by: AFAngryWarrior

Using it to connect to your laptop is, but like I said in another post unless your in the gigabytes of usage or high bandwidth they usually won't notice.

Posted by: is_that_clear

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Originally Posted by afangrywarrior

Using it to connect to your laptop is, but like I said in another post unless your in the gigabytes of usage or high bandwidth they usually won't notice.

Not the v710. VCAST phones and having the VPAK on your line prohibit you from tethering. Using the v710 to tether to your laptop to access Google Earth is okay.

Posted by: Fox McCloud

Ok, that clears some things up...thanks for the information.

Posted by: Domain

Would 1x even give enough throughput to allow Google Earth to function correctly?

Posted by: Fox McCloud

It should, Google Earth works perfectly with 56K (which is the only thing offered where I live); it's just slow.

With 1xRTT, you'll get a 150%-200% boost in speed, so, it will definitely work with Google Earth.

The only thing I could forsee that would be problematic, is possible time-outs....still, I don't think even this will be a problem; cellular connections have lower latency than Satellite broadband (ick!), so everything should be fine.

Posted by: Domain

Ahh. I knew with National Access you could get 144 kbps burstable, but I wasn't so sure how feasable this actually was in the real world. I was under the impression realisitically National Access/1x felt somewhere around 56k.

Posted by: cryogenic

part of it is the latency of the connection, not so much the speed... I had a Treo 600 on Sprint a couple of years back and generally saw 75-90kbps, which is definitely better than 56k dialup. Also, take into account that google earth uses burst transfers anyway, so 1xrtt wouldn't be terrible. I mean, it'd be slow but probably not completely unbearable.