Right now I am in my Jeep driving along I-294 outside of Chicago. We drive 58 miles one-way to see our vet in Tinley Park Illinois. I drove down and Holly is driving back. That gives me time to be on the computer and get some work done.
The system I am using to connect is from Verizon. I am using their PC-5740 card that plugs into the PCMCIA slot on my laptop. Since I already have my cell phone with Verizon they discount the monthly fee to $59 for adding this sevice onto my package. That's unlimited time.
I was really skeptical about trying the system out because I thought the coverage would be spotty and the speed would be slow. I was wrong on both counts. The speed is almost as fast as my cable ocnnection at home and the coverage area is large and solid.
For example, we drove from Detroit to Chicago a couple weeks ago and only dropped the connection in two or three places in the whole trip. And the dropped connections only lasted a couple minutes. Somehow their data network seems to be better than their voice network but I think it's really that the data only needs to connect in bursts.
As a comparison, I have had a Cingular system similar to this in the past and it was slow (like a dial-up connection) and coverage was not as wide as the Verizon area. We also had (still have actually) another system. It's called "Internet In Motion" and runs through the Sprint system. It is CRAP compared to this Verizon card and I will be disconnecting their service.
We travel a lot and until now have been at the mercy of finding WiFi systems to stay connected. The Verizon system has replaced the need to find those WiFi's now. Yeah!
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