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Re: wireless internet acess

Was that ON the cellphone or THROUGH the cellphone connected to a laptop
or something?

I have done both and connected to a PC works better than ON the phone..

Verizon and Sprint both offer 1xrtt high speed service. up to 160kbps. The
phones can connect via USB cable to your device and there are ways to do
it under linux. The PCMCIA cards can also work under linux, but check
before buying.

Both offer 100 USD per month unlimited plans for business customers.

you can use the Sprint if you add the vision service to your phone then
connect to a pc with usb for only adding $10 a month to the service for
unlimited vision. However, this is supposed to be used on the phone only.
Sprint says they can tell if you use it with a laptop but I haven't heard
of this happening and there are lots of people that connect their phone to
their laptop and surf as much as they want for cheap...

so it depends on your budget and honesty I suppose.

Verizon probably has the best coverage and signals by being around longer
than sprint.... ymmv.

-bryan hurley

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003  wrote:

>
> The best performance I've had so far is good old low-tech CDPD service
> from Verizon (through a PCMCIA card, the Sierra Aircard 300).  It is slow,
> but reasonably dependable.  My experience with Sprint PCS Vision (through
> a cellphone) has not been as enjoyable despite the theoretical increase in
> speed.  Maybe someone who has used a Sprint PCS PCMCIA card has had better
> experience.
>
> -Thomas
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jennifer Pellinen wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any wireless acess that is decent
> > quality/decent cost that would work well on a wearable
> > system. When I build a wearable I intend to have a
> > WiFi card on it, but I would like to have internet
> > acess everywhere not just near WiFi acess points. Is
> > satilite internet practical for a wearable? What about
> > Cellular internet acess?
> >
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