<div>I've had a Cingular / ATT 3g Card for a couple of years now.. It depends SO MUCH on your physical location. Only recently has it started to consistently connect to a "3G" source here in Edina, MN. (I assume they have a fallback to GPRS only when not near a 3g source). You might want to check with a local LUG. My company has contractors in Texas and AZ and there the Verizon cards are WAY faster than Cingular cards. I have an Option GT MAX Qualcom 3g CDMA for the record.
<br>Right now my laptop runs Vista. ( I know, but all my servers and my desktop run RHEL or Fedora) so I couldn't tell you about compat. issues. When not in 3g mode it is nearly unusable for my email (Scalix) or even ssh.. I thought i'd be able to use it to work well at Detroit Lakes this summer, but no such luck. (ended up leaching a neighbors unsecured WiFi.)
<br> <br>YMMV</div>
<div>Christopher Smith</div>
<div>Sysadmin.. Linux User since 1997.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 2:43 PM, Harv Nelson <<a href="mailto:ai9nl@arrl.net">ai9nl@arrl.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm out in nevada/arizona camping on the dessert ... I'm sick of<br>chasing back to town to go to the library to do email. do any of you
<br>have experience with an air card from either ATT, or Sprint?, or<br>whatever company? so far I'm finding that many of the USB units they<br>want to sell me won't work with our system only bill's stuff or MAC.
<br>any pointers, suggestions or tips are welcome.<br><br>thanks,<br><br>HARV, AI9NL<br>washburn, wi<br>currently in<br>lasvegas,nv<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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