how do you connect when on the road?

Discussion in 'Cellular - Voice - Data' started by TSTONE, Sep 24, 2007.

  1. kelgar50

    kelgar50 Medium Load Member

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    I would still have to diagree both with wifi and siricomm,siricomm does not have near the coverage area I have with my air card, I know this because I tried them.At the truck show last year they gave me a free trial and at the same time I had an air card.
    I could pull up both networks at the same time and most of the time(75%) siricomm had no signal but I had full bars on my air card.Every now and then I would get a couple bars with Siricomm and I travel all 48 and sometimes Qebec and Ontario.
    Air cards are just as fast as wifi if not faster these days.
     
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  3. jda55

    jda55 Bobtail Member

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    I plan on getting a Sprint Aircard for internet/email and Sling Media for tv (it works off of the aircard). $59.99 per month for internet/email/tv (off of my satelite at home). I should have service wherever I have cell phone service.

    Just finishing school and I'm taking my cdl road test tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. then ... hopefully start with an otr company on Monday, October 1. 5 weeks with trainer then on my own I go. That's when I plan on getting the Sling Media.

    jda
     
  4. Truckin Juggalo

    Truckin Juggalo Medium Load Member

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    i just added phone as modem plan to my sprint account ($39.99 a month unlimited data) and bought a USB Bluetooth adapter for my laptop from walmart for 20 bucks and it works fine for me, and i make phone calls with yahoo messanger
     
  5. RBPC

    RBPC Short & Sassy

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    I just compared a couple air/data card companies.

    Sprint has a plan for $40 m but it is VERY LIMITED, you could use up the kbps or mpbs in a few hours a day. The unlimited plan is $60 with connection speeds of 500 kbps to a max of 3.1mbps (which the latter sounds rare)

    Verizon has a plan for $60 with unlimited at 1.4mbps to 3.1.
    They have an enhanced area & a 1X area but I am not sure on the speed comparison in those areas. I called our local out of Portland Oregon which was considered 1X, I believe. Someone else might be able to explain this better.

    My friend just purchased this for her laptop. We drove 45 miles east of Portland & it worked fine except the youtube video of Van Halen kept buffering or pausing. So I guess if you're in more remote areas then that kind of stuff won't work too well.

    I had two flyers for other companies but I am pretty sure I threw them out after checking the speed. When I looked up Qwest, I found they use Sprint Nationwide PCS Network, and Nextel popped up when clicking on a link, so they are probably all the same speeds.They cap on a 5GB limit.

    I'm pretty sure that most have that limit. I don't know how much time & space it takes up on their servers (if it does) to use that much, or how much it takes to view a text page versus a flash page or how many pages in general one can view in a month let alone videos. I guess that's where the Slingbox should come in handy.

    I think we'll go with Verizon, but I still need to read the Verizon thread here, & might change my mind, uh, I mean our mind. :biggrin_255:
     
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