[LUNI] cell phone and netaccess/computer

[Kenneth P. Stox]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:42, kara at lanscape.net wrote:
> > I use Sprint and have an agent that gets LUG members and LPI certified 
> > people 15% off the package prices.  I have a big package, doubled it with 
> > free vision (their wireless internet service) and it's cheaper than I had 
> > on my old Sprint package.  2 phones, 2000 shared minutes, unlimited sprint 
> > to sprint, unlimited night & weekend, unlimited vision for $85. 

You might want to read the fine print on your agreement, if I am not
mistaken, that plan specifically excludes using umilimited vision with a
PC. Please correct me, if I am wrong, but the best plan I knew of was
$99/month for unlimited data on a PC connection.

> > 
> > If anyone's interested in a quote, let me know and I'll forward you. (I'm 
> > not the agent, my neighbor is :-)  He's out of St Louis, but does 
> > everything via mail so has clients across the US.
> > 
> > Sprint has a compact flash card (for pda's) and pcmcia cards to do what 
> > you want. I'm expecting my cf card next week :-)

I have been using the Merlin C-201 PCMCIA card for close to 8 months
now. Overall, I have been very happy with it. The coverage has been very
good. Outages seem to happen every few weeks, but to date, they have all
been on the weekends. Average throughput seems to be in the 70-80
Kbit/sec range.

-Ken Stox
 stox at imagescape.com