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Is Cingular broadband coverage ok?
I have a Cingular contract and need to buy an air card.
Should I stick with Cingular or switch to Verizon?
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I was recently comparing my local wireless broadband options. That led me to discover none of the cellular compaines offer any broadband service in our town. Just wanted to post that because they lead us to believe that anywhere there is a signal you get their broadband...which turns out to be not the actual case.
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Yup. "Coast-to-Coast" coverage is not with any provider.
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WackyT:
Yeah, that really surprised me to find out. I had considered it because we do travel often for business and it would be nice to have web access w/o needing to find a starbucks/MickeyD's or whatever. Plus here in the area we live there are pretty much zero free wifi hotspots. So the cellular option sounded, on paper, like a solution. Unfortunately in reality the service is not any more useful the the tmobile, boingo, wayport or whatever options. Actually I feel it would have given less service for about 5x the price (boingo/wayport are cheap anymore).
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I currently use the TMobile WiFi service. You can always find a Starbucks. And another good source are Super 8 Motels. Usually their wireless are unsecured and open.
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I have had great service with tmobile's hotspots. Anymore one can;t swing a dead cat w/o hitting a Starbucks. Plus the tmobile service is in most Borders and Barnes & Noble stores too.
Add the Embassy Suites hotels as another open access wifi service. They advertise them as such. I have even just gone is and asked if it was OK to use the wifi for a while and they said it was never a problem.
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Thanks for the tip Grumpy. I usually just sit outside in the parking lot of a Super 8 and get a great signal.
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hehehehehe...that is seriously funny because a couple weeks back I was just not in the mood to go in anywhere and sit. so, our mini wifi has a node by this empty field next to WallyWorld and nothing else. Don't ask why there is a node there to begin with...nobody can actually use it except the way I did...I sat in my pickup and made some SkypeOut calls for two hours. :) ANd it was flat out a great connection. I had a symmetrical 1.5Mb connection. I joked that when I really need to upload I might just have to park there again. ;)
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What city/town are you in Grumpy, if you don't mind my asking?
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no problem....Lompoc, CA ;)