Wireless Internet on the GO?

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Whats the best wireless interned for a notebook for the price? ATnT want $60 bucks a month adn I'm stuck in a building rightnow for 9.5 hours with no internet access (Tether or Card). Any cheaper alternatives, I'm looking for between $30-40 and havn't found anything yet.
 
Sprint's the best that I know of at $49.99/mo for unlimited internet via connection card.

Could also look at tethering your computer to your cell phone and use your cell phone's data plan. However that tends to be against contract and liable to get your service canceled.
 
Unlimited cellphone data plans are no longer unlimited, theres a logical cellphone data cap after which you are charged per byte (yes, byte).
 
Scroll down some more in that link, the 49.99/mo data plan is a connection card plan. The ones that you use with computers. Unlike Verizon, there is currently no listed cap in the contract for the connection cards through Sprint.
 
I've been shopping for a new cellphone provider for awhile now and I found that TMobile probably has the cheapest data plans around. 49.99 for the mobile broadband, and its even cheaper if you already have service with them and just want to add it to your current plan and tether your laptop to your phone.
 
Tmobile = edge at best.
Whats the point of paying $10 less if all you get is edge?
 
TMobile will be rolling out a full 3G network in November. It is also suposed to have better upload speeds than other networks. I don't know the details, but it operates differently; so it should see all around better perfromance. They are in the process of testing it to make sure it is perfect before rolling out service.
 
ILAMtitan said:
<advertising hype>TMobile will be rolling out a full 3G network in November. It is also suposed to have better upload speeds than other networks. I don't know the details, but it operates differently; so it should see all around better perfromance. They are in the process of testing it to make sure it is perfect before rolling out service.</advertising hype>
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On the plus side, that sounds like a full HSPA network, assuming they roll out faster than AT&T (moving at about the speed of frozen mollasses) it should be decent speed wise.
 
Most Unlimited plans, while not listing a data limit, have TOS that state that you only use it for web browsing and e-mail. As part of that supposed TOS they determine that if you go over a certain limit that you MUST be violating the TOS and doing something other than basic E-mail or web browsing. :rolleyes:
 
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