Wireless Internet - Better Than WiFi

We have a wireless broadband card for our laptop. With it we have fast internet almost everywhere we go. In a few areas our connection has been slow, but with more and more antennas going up all over, we expect that to improve. If we are near a city, we have a good connection. Grants, NM, and Chattahoochie, FL were slow. Too slow to send or receive photos, and maybe too slow to pay bills or do on-line banking.... but it worked okay for text e-mails.... and we were able to look up some information (slowly). The only place we couldn't get a signal at all was Vista, CA. Maybe it had something to do with the mountains. It wasn't a problem for us, since we weren't camping there - we were camping on top of a hill in Escondido, and reception was great.

The only thing we missed was our printer. We would have liked to print out a couple maps, but Tater had to draw them by hand. Next trip, we'll have a printer on board.

We're very happy with our wireless, and use it exclusively both at home and in the 'Cat. Our daughter and son-in-law had dial-up, and were so impressed with the speed of our wireless, they got wireless for their PC.

We definitely recommend wireless broadband for anybody who travels a lot and wants to keep in touch. Ours is billed right along with our celphone, and is reasonably priced.

I know there are numerous suppliers, which one do you have?

And , look at this:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3380&review=Sprint+Wireless+Linskys+Router

We have Verizon, and are very happy with it. We had AT&T until May 2007, and it seemed to have a lot of dead areas when we traveled. Jim's work celphone was Nextel, and it, too, had dead areas. That was a good excuse to use when people tried to reach him when we were on vacations. We decided to go with Verizon when we moved back down to Texas last year - partly because our son has Verizon. It was a good choice.

Interesting about the router. Don't really need it here.... at this time.

I have Verizon, may have to get one of those broad band cards.

Here is a link for a battery operated wireless router. You can create a 'hotspot' wherever you go.

http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=index