[Novalug] wireless laptop card

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Jason escribió:
> Miguel Gonzalez Castaños wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I am considering the possibility of getting a PCMCIA card for my work
>> laptop to be connected during my trips from Baltimore to DC in the
>> Marc train. I just want to be able to read my email and connect to the
>> office through the VPN when something goes wrong to reboot servers or
>> whatever. The cheapest price is $50 from verizon, to have an unlimited
>> connection, since the rest are cheaper but with very low bandwidth
>> limits (5-40 Mb) which I think doesn't worth.
>>     
>
> I've had a Verizon EVDO card for almost four years and I am happy with
> it, despite the fact that I can't stand Verizon as a company.  I get
> ~500-600kbit/sec and my card, a Kyocera KPC650,  is almost 2 years old
> so the newer cards should be faster still. When my contract is up,
> though, I'm going to look into Cingular's EDGE card.  I understand that
> the throughput is about the same as what I'm getting now but high-speed
> coverage is better.  My Blackberry has an EDGE signal more often than my
> Verizon card runs at EVDO.  When there's no EVDO signal it drops back to
> 1xRTT, which is akin to dial-up, at best.  I haven't tried Sprint's card
> but it's also EVDO so is likely to be comparable to Verizon's. I'll
> check out that one this summer too. 
>
> One thing to note: make sure you get a card supported by your laptop. 
> Some newer laptops come with Expresscard slots rather than PCMCIA (my
> Thinkpad has both)
>
> -Jason
>
> BTW: If you do decide to go with Verizon I have an older EV-DO card I'll sell you cheap. :-)
>
>   
How much do you pay to Verizon? For me something in the range of $20-30 
a month would be what I am looking for.

BTW, I have a Dell Inspiron 6400, I will have to check whether it has 
PCMCIA or Expresscard.

Many thanks

Miguel