T&T: Wireless Air Cards

[Bob Miller]

I have been using the Verizon BroadbandAccess service with the low cost
PC5740 PC card for more than a year now in the Pacific Northwest. I have
good speeds (400-600 kbps upload, 150-300 kbps download) in the I-5 corridor
between Bellingham and Tacoma, Portland, I-5 in Northern California, the San
Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Miami and Ft Lauderdale, and Chicago and DFW
airports. Good service, $60/mo with my cell phone network. 

I recently migrated my laptop to Windows Vista and found that the Vista
drivers for the PC5740 were not available. The Verizon web site for
Broadband service (vzam.com, Verizon Access Manager) had indicated that
Vista driver support for the PC5740 would be available by the end of
February. I went back to the site yesterday and found that the supported
date had moved to the end of March. I phoned Verizon Broadband support and a
tech told me to take in my PC5740 card to a Verizon cell phone store and
that they would swap it out at no charge for a PC5750, which has Vista
drivers. Best of all, the PC5750 has support for the faster Rev A of EV-DO,
which is now available in the Seattle area.

I will make the journey tomorrow.

If you buy into the Verizon program, make sure that the card supports Rev A
(PC5750 and Aircard 595). Both cost $100 with a 2 year plan and the $50
on-line purchase discount.


Bob Miller
M/V Loon Song
Anacortes, WA

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jmonahan1@peoplepc.com
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:06 PM
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Subject: T&T: Wireless Air Cards

I know this has been discussed before but this is an ever changing subject.
I would like to hear from folks that use the various air cards in their
laptops,  which brands and also which service providers,ie, verizon,
cingular, or sprint.  What quality of coverage did you experience and what
types of plans did you have ( non business)?

 

Thanks,

Jim Monahan 
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