Broad Band

I have the verizion air card and phone. the air card is a on better than the phone service. I have nt found anywhere I could not use the internet . And I'm talking about surfing the web in the middle of Montanna, Arizona, wyoming etc etc. Only once was it weak enouth that it kept disconnecting but it still was working.
Just a tip though. SPend the extra money on the USB modem instead of the pc card. First off you can put it in any computer not just a laptop, but mainly because it comes with a cord that if you plug the modem into the cord instead of the laptop there is TWO usb plugs on the other end of the cord that go to two usb port on the laptop. This doubles the power of the modem. Mabey that is why I get such good service, I don't know

 

This is going to be a personal preferance here.

I have used broadband on the road. But find it to be too expensive for the amount of time it actually gets used. Now I just wait till I get home.

I spent maybe 3 hours out of the 1 month I actually had service while on the road....online. That worked out to $8 bucks an hour for me.

Until they can get the cost down, or access coverage of 100%. I'll stick to using the net at home. I pay $25 a month for BB at home, use it about 100+ hours (entire family)...very cost effective. I've also set up a wireless network at home. So I can take the old laptop out on the porch with me in the mornings, for coffee.

 

You can broke fast paying for the wi fi services.

You can use your verizion phone as a modem if you just want to email and such. That way you don't need to buy a cad but you can obviously only do one at a time and I think you may onle be able to use the internet when you are on a VERIZION network, not the extended network

 

If you're on the extended network you will get dial up speeds. On the Verison network in most areas you will get Broadband speed. The way to find out is at the top of the display on your Verison phone you will have a simble that will either say "1x" or "EV". "EV" will give you broadband and "1x" will give you dial up speeds.

 

You don't have to be in a Verizon area to get EVDO speeds.....there are lots of areas that have EVDO that are extended networks.... I had the Sprint USB720 and the Verizon USB720 @ the same time and the Verizon outperformed the Sprint every time I tried it.

 

Personally I haven't tried it, but if you frequent starbucks a lot, you might want to try T-Mobile hotspot.

I wonder how fast are those? And can you play online FPS game using T-Mobile hotspots?