Anyone Have Wireless Internet Service?

[Bichon Barb]

DH and I are starting to look into wireless internet services so that we can check our office e-mail when we are on vacation or camping.

Does anyone have an recommendations for services? Looks like Earthlink has a pretty large coverage area.

Thanks.

 

[2luvbugs4disney]

Check with your cell phone company. Many of them offer wireless internet on your cell phone for only about $6-$7/month. I have it on my with Alltell.

 

[Bichon Barb]

Thanks for the advice. We were thinking of wireless for the laptop, but we looked into Cingular Wireless. It looks like pricing starts at $35 a month. Did you have to purchase software? Cingular is asking $2000 for some kind of software.

Sorry, I'm a bit clueless on this subject.

 

[2luvbugs4disney]

No, no software. BUT, this was internet on my cell phone. Not the lap top. Sorry, when it comes to laptops and wireless internet. I'm clueless.

 

[adamak]

DH has a SprintPCS wireless card, but paid for by his company. It's very very....very very slow. Since it's free to us, we kept the card, but only use it on extended vacations. I did a speed test on DSLReports.com, and it came out 40 kbs, which is slower than a 56k modem.

It's not the service, it's the technology.