How cool is this? Right now I’m sitting in a parking lot in Salt Lake City, from where I just filed my weekly UPDATE column. Arlene wanted to hit a couple of scrapbook stores, so I grabbed my laptop and my new Verizon aircard; now I’m online and working away, so she can take as much time shopping as she likes (well, until my battery runs out, anyway).
The aircard gives me 60-144Kbps speeds pretty much anywhere that my phone works, which is good– but it gives me up to 2Mbps in areas where Verizon has EVDO coverage. These areas include Seattle and Santa Monica (where I was last week), as well as the Cincinnati airport (my home away from home) and a bunch of other places.
The first aircard I had was the Sierra V620. It worked fairly well, but its speed in low-signal areas wasn’t that great. I grabbed the KPC-650 as soon as I could, but I haven’t had a chance to test it in an EVDO area yet. However, being able to turn dead time into productive time is outstanding– that means I won’t have to write my column later, when I’d rather be doing something else!
Isn’t technology wonderful?
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Thanks for linking to EVDOinfo.com, we have a ton of info up there. We also run http://www.EVDOforums.com and there is lots of useful information up there too. Have fun EVDO’ing!
Thanks for your site, Mike– there’s a lot of very useful information there, especially the stuff on using otherwise-unsupported aircards with the Powerbook. If only I had a Powerbook 🙂