Verizon Air Card or others on West Coast
I would be interested in hearing from anyone having experience on the
West Coast with the Verizon or other PC card for internet access? Is
this just for in the harbor or
coastwise. Which card are we talking about Verizon has three or
four different ones with different monthly rates as high as 75 per
month? . Any other networks worth considering.
John R
M/V Kiapoko, KK 48 NS
lying Sausalito CA
I would be interested in hearing from anyone having experience on the
West Coast with the Verizon or other PC card for internet access? Is
this just for in the harbor or
coastwise. Which card are we talking about Verizon has three or
four different ones with different monthly rates as high as 75 per
month? . Any other networks worth considering.
According to Mike, who certainly is in a position to know, Verizon
(and any other provider) is useless along the California
coast. Verizon's fast fast data is only built out in urban
areas. It will fall back to slower speeds everywhere else.
I think the best deal in internet access is to use a Treo on
T-Mobile. Unlimited access is only 15 bucks a month on top of your
phone plan, plus you get a great phone to talk on with a built in
keyboard and internet browser! J&R is now selling unlocked GSM Treo
650's for 49 bucks, which is a hell of a deal.
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4035699
You can connect your laptop to the Treo with PDANet, which is just
one fantastic piece of software,
http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/
This won't feel like your cable connection (or even ten dollar a day
marina wifi), but it is fast enough and usable. Plus (and I can
attest to this), it will work everywhere -- not just Canada, but in
Europe as well.
Best,
Steve
Steve Dubnoff
1966 Willard Pilothouse
www.mvnereid.com
sdubnoff@circlesys.com
I have used the Verizon Broadband Access service with the cheap Verizon card
($50) for more than a year and am very happy with it. I have the unlimited
service at $60 per month since my retular cell phone service is with
Verizon.
I use the Verizon Broadband service in the Seattle/Puget Sound area from
Bellingham south to Olympia, in Portland, the SF Bay Area, San Diego, Ft
Lauderdale and Miami. I also have logged on at airports in Dallas and
Chicago (I think). It gives a fairly consistent download speed of 300-400
kbps and 120 kbps upload.
It has been so useful that I dropped all of my subscription wifi accounts.
The extra speed of wifi hotspots doesn't make up for the ease of use of the
3G service in the metropolitan areas. I no longer have to search out a
Starbucks and pay $4-6 for a latte and a fat pill cookie.
I also have purchased a Kyocera KR-1 router/wifi access point. I take the
Verizon card and insert it into the KR1 and have a router and local AP for
use on the boat. Great technology.
The downside is that 3G services are pretty much relegated to urban centers
and Interstate corridors. Signal strength in the San Juans is pretty poor
when you are out of sight of the cell towers on I5 20 miles to the east.
Bob Miller
Anacortes, WA
4 inches of snow, 25 degrees outside, and 30 knot winds this evening
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Subject: T&T: Verizon Air Card or others on West Coast
I would be interested in hearing from anyone having experience on the
West Coast with the Verizon or other PC card for internet access? Is
this just for in the harbor or
coastwise. Which card are we talking about Verizon has three or
four different ones with different monthly rates as high as 75 per
month? . Any other networks worth considering.
John R
M/V Kiapoko, KK 48 NS
lying Sausalito CA
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welllllll,
yes and no.
Verizon has its faults, but what network doesnt?
I use the 7130e on Verizon and I get my email to my blackberry pretty quick.
I like the email client, a lot. Also, I paid the extra $50 to hook it up to
my laptop, so when EVDO is available (lots of places for me on the east
coast) I get high speed, when its NOT available, I get slower speed.
On 11/28/06, Steven Dubnoff sdubnoff@circlesys.com wrote:
According to Mike, who certainly is in a position to know, Verizon
(and any other provider) is useless along the California
coast. Verizon's fast fast data is only built out in urban
areas. It will fall back to slower speeds everywhere else.
I think the best deal in internet access is to use a Treo on
T-Mobile. Unlimited access is only 15 bucks a month on top of your
phone plan, plus you get a great phone to talk on with a built in
keyboard and internet browser! J&R is now selling unlocked GSM Treo
650's for 49 bucks, which is a hell of a deal.
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4035699
You can connect your laptop to the Treo with PDANet, which is just
one fantastic piece of software,
http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/
This won't feel like your cable connection (or even ten dollar a day
marina wifi), but it is fast enough and usable. Plus (and I can
attest to this), it will work everywhere -- not just Canada, but in
Europe as well.
Best,
Steve
Steve Dubnoff
1966 Willard Pilothouse
www.mvnereid.com
sdubnoff@circlesys.com
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We use a Verizon aircard for wireless broadband
Internet access on our boat.
With one major exception, which I will describe below,
we have been satisfied with the service.
We live on the boat but cruise frequently, so it
wasn't practical to establish a DSL land-line
connection to the boat. Cable internet would be fine
when we were docked, but we'd be without Internet
connectivity while cruising. Heaven forbid!
The solution was to use a Verizon wireless PC card
with our Apple PowerBook G4 notebook. Recently, we
added a Top Global 3G Phoebus router to our system,
which allows several computers wireless internet
access at the same time. Another advantage of the
wireless router is that the newest Apple notebooks do
not accept PC cards, so as far as I know the only way
to use Verizon's PC aircard with a new Mac is with
wireless router.
We have a strong signal at our marina in the Portland
area, and coverage has been surprisingly good along
the Columbia River from Portland to Astoria. It is
not as fast as a land line, but not so slow as to be
annoying unless you like downloading video podcasts or
need to download large files such as software updates.
The only drawback is that Verizon's flat monthly rate
goes out the window as soon as one crosses the border
into Canada. We were able to use the Verizon air
card in Canada, but discovered to our chagrin that
Verzion charges by the minute for Canadian service,
and the rate is prohibitively high. This came as a
surprise, given that the Verizon rep. at our local
Verizon store assured us in person on more than one
occasion that the flat rate also applied to use in
Canada. Not true.
Alan Coogan
M/V Salvation II
Portland, Or
--- J Rudolph reddog322@earthlink.net wrote:
I would be interested in hearing from anyone having
experience on the
West Coast with the Verizon or other PC card for
internet access? Is
this just for in the harbor or
coastwise. Which card are we talking about
Verizon has three or
four different ones with different monthly rates as
high as 75 per
month? . Any other networks worth considering.
John R
M/V Kiapoko, KK 48 NS
lying Sausalito CA
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Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.
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I would be interested in hearing from anyone having experience on the
West Coast with the Verizon or other PC card for internet access? Is
this just for in the harbor or
I don't have the card. I do have a phone with the "version" 1 data link.
The link works fair within about 10 miles of the coast. Except in
southern Oregon. Not just below Cape Mendocino or just below Cape Sur.
It is spotty in most other places.
Mike
Capt. Mike Maurice
Beaverton Oregon(Near Portland)