Re: [Thinkpad] PCMCIA WLAN (WAS Re: OT: Which PDA should I consider?])

Hello,

My employer has been equipping some of the sales force (who use mostly
T43s and T60s, with a few X41s and X60s for frequent travellers) with
Verizon Broadband Access cards, which are CardBus adapters and run over
their EVDO network, I believe.

One thing about the adapters is they appear to require quite a bit of
software which must be installed on the host PC to manage connection; it
is not like installing an Ethernet (or Wi-Fi) NIC and loading a few KB
of drivers. The impression I received from our IT department was that
it could be problematic sometimes if one needed to use multiple VPNs,
run agents (backup, inventory, security, etc.) over the WWAN connection,
and so forth.

Your experience may vary, but you may wish to get see if you can trial a
card for a week or a month before committing to a multi-month service
agreement.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky

At 08:19 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:

>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:06:56 -0400
>From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] PCMCIA WLAN (WAS Re: OT: Which PDA should I
> consider?])
>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Message-ID: <20061020010656.GE26158@panix.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>on a slight tangent to this question, but somewhat more on-topic,
>what is this group's consensus on PCMCIA cards and carrier service
>for thinkpads?
>
>i've looked on-line at verizon and tmobile and they have cards for $0-$100
>(with service package) and monthly rates of $50-$70 unlimited data.
>i'd like it for web browsing and ssh'ing to my shell account.
>
>just wondering what people's practical experience with this
>stuff is.
>
>thanks,
>
>-rei

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Received on Tue Oct 24 01:35:24 2006