GL: Verizon wireless options

[George Hechtman]

Ken Williams:>>
"I have not upgraded to one of the
"Broadband style" cards because I have not determined if I can use  
any of
them with the DA4000."

Ken, go to www.digitalantenna.com and look at their catalog. In the  
back is a list of adaptors for all the cards. You will obviously want  
to get a card that has an external antenna connection.
Amplifying increases your data throughput speed. 250k is half what  
one should expect from EVDO, so an amp will help.

For some reason Verizon is not enthusiastic about tethering phones  
for use as modems; they charge high prices and speeds are slower.  
This may be in part due to the limitations of CDMA technology.
GSM high speed phones( offered in this country, by Cingular right  
now), can make great modems and you can use the voice and data sides  
simultaneously. The cost for data connect is lower too, as it becomes  
a 40 dollar add on to a voice plan.

Disclaimer: divisions of my company are in one case a wholesale  
distributor of Digital Antenna (amongst other signal enhancement and  
cellular equipment, including CDMA and GSM vendors) and in another a  
reseller of Cingular-based cell service.

George