Wireless card question......................(Starch)

Cosmo_3

Idid some research before buying in. I have the Sprint Sierra 595 air card for my Lenovo x61t laptop. Make sure whatever company you go with that you get a card that supports "Revision A" the download speeds are great.

I will never look back, once you have it and can access the net from the jobsite you can get a lot of work done from the job when you remember everything instead of waiting to look some thing up when you get home.

Even though it is a monthly expense, I think that soon I will just get rid of my dsl service at home altogether and just use my sprint card.


Cosmo

John Starcher_4

I'm thinking..........

.......about getting one of those broadband cards for my laptop to allow internet access on the road.

What are your experiences with these:

Plan costs, reliability, etc?

I am a Nextel customer, and checked out their stuff - looks like it'll cost me 60 bucks a month for their unlimited plan.

Starch

TJ_5

wireless internet

I also have Nextel, and the Sprint Pantech card, their cheepie, works all over the state (RI) that is it is faster than network at shop and sometimesfaster than cable at home. Comes in real handy on road if you need info on anything.

Ken_40

Starch...

We got involved with Verizon 'air-card' and had nothing but problems.

It seems they sold the card to us not knowing the area was not covered by anything digital, only analog signals. The drop outs and speed were atrocious. After nine months of attempting to resolve the issues, we stopped payment and sued them in small claims court in VT, where the service was intended from day one. They paid us back all the $$ spent and apologized for not doing anything promised.

We now have a dish/satellite and it is also slow and intermittent, but not as bad as the air card. Before that contract expires, we will test drive a few local dial-ups.

I just returned from a trip to AZ where the home had only dial up. Remarkably, the dial up was about as fast as my dish!

Before getting involved with an air-card, be sure to test it for a period and see if it's what you really want. In our case, it was a POS!

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[Deleted User]

Air cards

John,

I have the Nextel Air card for work. 60 bucks a month unlimited through the company I work for. It works great for us here in the northern Illinois Area.

We use our laptops to send in time, daily reports, photos of field issues. Very handy setup for a company.



Gordy

Steve_161

I used a verizon card for about two years when I was working on the island of Martha's Vineyaard in Massachusetts. It worked very well when in range of a cell tower. I'm sure the technology has only gotten better. A rule of thumb would be that the wireless card reception would be as good as cell phone reception from the same carrier in any given area.

Chris_82

It's not Broadband, but fast dedending upon location,...

Great alternative to the ripoff while waiting for your flight at airports. But if you don't need to be connected why pay the cost? Switched to Verizon because; when all is said and done they do have the best coverage. Not the fastested thing in the world though, despite the claims, and moving the laptop sometimes makes the difference in buildings...best if someone else is paying. It became a requirment on some jobs because there were no phone lines that were easy to access.Cost is $45.00 give or take as we have a "freedom package" thru Verizon.