GL: Broadband air cards

[Bob DeGroot, DCH]

Sue,
If you're going to use your phone or air card deep inside a building, the
at&t tech services rep explained that their signal is not of the best
frequency to penetrate walls. Verizon does that better. But, at&t has
incredible coverage and they can tune the closest tower to your phone so you
won't drop calls when you're on the fringe of the tower's power. We didn't
pick up any bars when they tuned the tower, but the sound became incredibly
clear. Verizon and Sprint can do the same.

Now for air cards... Sierra makes the cards for at&t and Sprint (I don't
know about Verizon). Sierra cards are truly awesome and fast. The new Sprint
card is about the size of a flash drive.

The new contracts are for 5 gigs. Normal usage should be around 1 to 2 gigs
per month unless you're a www.youtube.com junkie or steam free movies, TV
shows and video on www.hulu.com, then Katie bar the door cause the phone
man's a coming to talk with you - at least that's what the at&t techie said.
Suggest you use WiFi for the heavy streaming needs. www.5mileWiFi.com will
take care of a lot of distance issues as most Wifi have to be within a
couple hundred feet of the antenna.

Bob

Bob DeGroot, D.C.H.
M/V Spirit Dancer
Great Loop Assoc. (AGLCA) # 427

-----Original Message-----
From: great-loop-bounces+bob=saleshelp.com at lists.samurai.com
[mailto:great-loop-bounces+bob=saleshelp.com at lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of
Coral Hadler
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:43 PM
To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
Subject: GL: Broadband air cards

Hello Guys,

I'm purchasing my first air card and need your advice.  My personal mobile
phone service is with T-Mobile and they offer an air card rate of $25 per
month with no contract.  Verizon which recently required long term rates,
now
offers a month to month rate of $59, with no contract.

When I read through all the data, as to what is available and what is really
needed, I am totally baffled.  I have far too many questions so rather than
ask them of you, I will let you decide for me, what I need.

BTW, I have a last years model compaq laptop running Windows XP, with two
UBS
ports, and a CD read & write.

I want to receive emails, weather, and other basic stuff (unless there is
some
other things you think I might need).

Thanks much,
Sue

Oh Yeah, I also want to know what you think of buying a used air card and
how
to know what to look for.
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