Question for the WirelessWizards

Starpoint · 05-26-2006

A co-worker of mine got one of those Verizon wireless anywhere cards and loves it. Says he gets better speeds on it than on his wired DSL. I know Sprint offers the same thing but they cap you off at 40 megs of xfer and bill you a few cents per kilobyte till you reach 90.00

Verizon does not seem to do that and they post they have speeds from 40 kbyte up to 2 mbit.

anyone here have any experience with either of these cards?

for the price per month (50-70 a month depending on area) would be a nice addition to my laptop.

wrzwaldo · 05-26-2006

The Sprint card works great but not near the speed of my cable connection. I'm not sure about the transfer cap as it is a business account and I don't pay the bill.

Starpoint · 05-26-2006

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Originally Posted by wrzwaldo

The Sprint card works great but not near the speed of my cable connection. I'm not sure about the transfer cap as it is a business account and I don't pay the bill.

Ok.. spoke a little more with my co-worker on his Verizon card.
You can get some rebates on the card if you sign a 2 year agreement and its about 50-60 a month.

if you want to go month to month, its 79.99 and no rebates, the card costs around 130-150.

He was told that there is no limit to megs you can leach.. however they will drop connection due to in-activity.

I am thinking more on this and bringing my laptop to work so I can lea... uh... RESEACH things there

renderman · 05-26-2006

If you really want to have some fun, slap that card into this:

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/

Barry · 05-26-2006

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Originally Posted by renderman

If you really want to have some fun, slap that card into this:

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/

Hook that into your wrt and you wouldn't have to worry about frying it doing the sd card mod. Just have it ftp the info home.

renderman · 05-26-2006

I'm actually looking at installing one in the Demon when I get to that point to provide net access for the cars onboard systems and for me with my laptop at car shows.

05-26-2006	#1 (permalink)
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renderman Drunken Stumbler Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anywhere but Utah Posts: 1,862	If you really want to have some fun, slap that card into this: http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kr1-router/ __________________ Never drink anything larger than your head! Scaramental Wine Taster for the Church Of WiFi Buy our books! "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage CoWF WPA Hash Tables

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renderman Drunken Stumbler Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anywhere but Utah Posts: 1,862	I'm actually looking at installing one in the Demon when I get to that point to provide net access for the cars onboard systems and for me with my laptop at car shows. __________________ Never drink anything larger than your head! Scaramental Wine Taster for the Church Of WiFi Buy our books! "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage CoWF WPA Hash Tables

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05-26-2006	#2 (permalink)
wrzwaldo I amuse you? Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 9,147	The Sprint card works great but not near the speed of my cable connection. I'm not sure about the transfer cap as it is a business account and I don't pay the bill.