Wireless Air Cards Verizon or Sprint

I purchased 2 dell XPS laptops around Christmas and had the ATT mobile card installed at the factory on both units. I only activated 1 though figuring I would be able to network the 2 laptops together and "split" the signal. This did not work.

ATT did claim to have unlimited usage for 60.00 per month but did mention they have 2 types of towers. 1 which supports data transfers and 1 that supports only voice calls as in a cell phone. I found this to be true in several locations when I was able to use my ATT cell phone but could not use the broadband connection in my laptop.

The ATT card lost connectivity pretty regular on my cross country trip from PA to CA and back and was very frustrating. My wife decided to purchase an air card through Verizon and we ran these 2 systems head to head for a week. Conclusion; Verizon beat ATT hands down for connectivity, length of connections, and speed of downloads. Based upon this I deactivated my ATT subscription and are using the Verizon air card exclusively.

We use the air card for several hours per day switching the card from 1 laptop to the other and have been charged (so far anyway) the 60.00 monthly fee plus the 39.00 activation fee.

As another poster pointed out though Verizon does drop out in sections of Arizona and New Mexico but it held on longer then ATT did.

 

On sprint internet can u download anything u want without worrying about usage?

 

I am using Verizon. It got used on the road for the first time the other day on a trip down to South Florida. The entire way my girlfriend was surfing the net with amazing speeds. I absolutely recommend Verizon to anybody.

 

I have Sprint. It's ok, but there are many places where you don't get broadband speed. The major cities are ok, and some states are good. Out west is hit or miss.

Usage is unlimited with mine.

 

I have Nextel, too, so they gave me a break on the price of the card.

 

Looking forward to hearing how it works for you.

Question for anyone... Someone said that Sprint doesn't work too well in Arizona & NM... Is Verizon better? ..or is coverage equally bad in the southwest?

Thanks,
HG

 

Thanks, RD.

Went to the Sprint website and under plans, they have two choices:

Any idea how much "40 MB" might equate to usage in layman's terms? For example... watching one movie would be.... how many MB ? It also says "data usage w/out a plan is 3 cents/KB."

I also went to the Verizon website and saw this:

Wow!

Can someone with a Verizon AirCard can give us an idea what your final monthly bill is after they add all of the above to it?