Cingular cell phone service - NEED Air Card for Laptop for 6 months

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NEED Air Card for Laptop for 6 months

Techie

2007-07-04, 10:33 am

Does anyone know of anyone who will do a month to month air card
contract - Verizon, T Mobile, etc. Most want 1 year contract . Or go
from one to the other and keep it for 29 days.

Jim Dubya

2007-07-04, 12:33 pm

You are going to need to purchase the aircard so why don't you just get a
year contract? Why be a cheapskate? Sprint has the best high-speed data
service and therefore I would recommend them. GSM data service is slow and
therefore I would stay away from GSM for data. Go with Sprint for the best
data service, or if you want second best, go with Verizon.

"Techie" <techtechxxxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of anyone who will do a month to month air card
> contract - Verizon, T Mobile, etc. Most want 1 year contract . Or go
> from one to the other and keep it for 29 days.
>

Thurman

2007-07-04, 12:33 pm

Thurman

2007-07-04, 3:33 pm

"Jim Dubya" <jimdubya@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> You are going to need to purchase the aircard so why don't you just get a
> year contract? Why be a cheapskate? Sprint has the best high-speed data
> service and therefore I would recommend them. GSM data service is slow and
> therefore I would stay away from GSM for data. Go with Sprint for the best
> data service, or if you want second best, go with Verizon.
>
> "Techie" <techtechxxxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1183557146.708259.314160@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

(all things 'dubya' being ignored these days.........)

It would help to know what you have and what you are trying to accomplish.

I have both Sprint air card and Cing 8525/Blackjack.

Both Cing cell phones report speeds of ~600Kbs at peak times; 1.3Mbs in off
hours. With the 8525, I have Wi-Fi also.

I get Sprint connections in a lot of areas, but not all that I visit. I
added Cingular because of the gaps in Sprint coverage.

As I tried to explain to a Lockheed Martin engineer, a slow cellular
connection in the middle of a cow pasture is faster than driving to the
closest Starbucks, 30 miles away.

DTC

2007-07-04, 3:33 pm

Techie wrote:
> Does anyone know of anyone who will do a month to month air card
> contract - Verizon, T Mobile, etc. Most want 1 year contract . Or go
> from one to the other and keep it for 29 days.

What speeds are you expecting?

Cingular/AT&T have have EDGE(Enhanced Data for GSM Environment)
384 Kbps deployed in most of their network, but HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink
Packet Access) is only in a few major markets at this time and is expected
to compete with EV-DO in terms of speed.

Sprint and Verizon have deployed EV-DO and with maximum speeds up to 1,400
Kbps and Alltell claims theirs will do 2,400 Kbps.

I had a Cingular/AT&T USB "air card" and it top out at 180 Kbps (but then
I'm not in the San Francisco Bay area - like someone else who will claim he
gets the maximum speed).

My Sprint PCMIA card gets up to 1,400 Kbps, but have seen it as low as 900
Kbps.

Another issue to consider it what form factor of card your laptop uses. All
carriers offer the older PCMIA cards and recently introduced the Express
card form for the newer laptop - they are not interchangeable on your
laptops (unless you get an add-on Express card to USB adapter for the older
laptops). Both Cingular/AT&T and Sprint offer the more versatile USB devices.

Since all my laptops are mixed, I use a Sprint PCMIA card plugged into a
D-Link DIR-450 device in my truck and WiFi three feet over to my laptops,
or even half a mile with a rooftop mounted antenna. I have never been more
than half a mile from my truck...unless on horseback or camping, and then I
simply stick up a 40 ft Wonderpole at the base camp and full-duplex repeat
from my nearest WiFi access point eight miles away.

Michael Paris

2007-07-04, 10:33 pm

> laptops). Both Cingular/AT&T and Sprint offer the more versatile USB
> devices.
>
> Since all my laptops are mixed, I use a Sprint PCMIA card plugged into a
> D-Link DIR-450 device in my truck and WiFi three feet over to my laptops,
> or even half a mile with a rooftop mounted antenna. I have never been more
> than half a mile from my truck...unless on horseback or camping, and then
> I simply stick up a 40 ft Wonderpole at the base camp and full-duplex
> repeat from my nearest WiFi access point eight miles away.
>

I agree, I have sprint's sierra wireless usb card which I use on my mac and
windows notebooks, I have no problems and its pretty damned fast.

Damned you actually take you're notebook camping, damned and I thought I was
bad!!!!!!! :-)

Todd Allcock

2007-07-04, 10:33 pm

At 04 Jul 2007 19:00:52 +0000 DTC wrote:

Your post, while both interesting and enlightening, failed to answer the
OP's only question: can you get a data card/data plan without a contract,
for which the answer, sadly, is no.

Cingular allows data usage on their prepaid plans, but at $10/MB, it's
not really feasable.

> What speeds are you expecting?
>
> Cingular/AT&T have have EDGE(Enhanced Data for GSM Environment)
> 384 Kbps deployed in most of their network, but HSDPA (High-Speed
Downlink Packet Access) is only in a few major markets at this time and
is expected to compete with EV-DO in terms of speed.
>
> Sprint and Verizon have deployed EV-DO and with maximum speeds up to
1,400 Kbps and Alltell claims theirs will do 2,400 Kbps.
>
> I had a Cingular/AT&T USB "air card" and it top out at 180 Kbps (but
then I'm not in the San Francisco Bay area - like someone else who will
claim he gets the maximum speed).
>
> My Sprint PCMIA card gets up to 1,400 Kbps, but have seen it as low as
900 Kbps.
>
> Another issue to consider it what form factor of card your laptop uses.
All carriers offer the older PCMIA cards and recently introduced the
Express card form for the newer laptop - they are not interchangeable on
your laptops (unless you get an add-on Express card to USB adapter for
the older laptops). Both Cingular/AT&T and Sprint offer the more
versatile USB devices.
>
> Since all my laptops are mixed, I use a Sprint PCMIA card plugged into
a D-Link DIR-450 device in my truck and WiFi three feet over to my laptops,
or even half a mile with a rooftop mounted antenna. I have never been
more than half a mile from my truck...unless on horseback or camping, and
then I simply stick up a 40 ft Wonderpole at the base camp and full-
duplex repeat from my nearest WiFi access point eight miles away.
>
>
>

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just bob

2007-07-05, 10:33 pm

"Techie" <techtechxxxx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1183557146.708259.314160@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Does anyone know of anyone who will do a month to month air card
> contract - Verizon, T Mobile, etc. Most want 1 year contract . Or go
> from one to the other and keep it for 29 days.

Just another take on this...

How about getting the EVDO service added to an existing cell contract? When
you are done - in six months - cancel the EVDO service. You are not
cancelling our contract, just a service portion of your contract.

Or...

Upgrade an existing plan to a Treo 700wx or similar where you can tether
your phone to your PC to get EVDO speeds. Again, cancel the EVDO service
after the "six months". No strings.

just bob

2007-07-05, 10:33 pm

DTC

2007-07-05, 10:33 pm

Michael Paris wrote:
> Damned you actually take you're notebook camping, damned and I thought I
> was bad!!!!!!! :-)

Oh...no, I'm not THAT addicted to the Internet. I use it mostly for FTP'ing
live images up to my web servers. Likewise I have a wireless cam in my
leather/Kevlar vest to broadcast to a laptop for live "my point of view"
imagery when I'm riding in the bull riding and bareback bronc events.

DTC

2007-07-05, 10:33 pm

Todd Allcock wrote:
> Your post, while both interesting and enlightening, failed to answer the
> OP's only question:

Thats why I asked the questions in the first place.

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