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I think I am going to invest in an air card for my computer from Verizon or Alltel. I was wondering if any one had any experience with those cards. I have read that Verizon is very good and satisfactory. My question is if you cannot connect with the card, then can you connect with the wi-fi card using the provider that the air card has.
I know what I want to ask, but is hard to put into words.
Thanks, Pat and John 04 Allure#31022

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Pat and John,

Wifi and cell are different systems. The do not cross over. Wifi is for in a park and the aircard works with the cell network.
We have both and find Verizon is very good. May I suggest that you use the Kyocera KPC650 card not the Verizon card. You can add a signal booster to the Kyocera, but not to the Verizon card.

Russ and Jean
05 Intrigue
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WE USE THE VERIZON CARD AND ARE WELL PLEASED SO FAR (6 MONTHS OF USAGE). I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT--IT'S SIMPLE TO USE AND EFFECTIVE, MIKE HUFF 06 ALLURE

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As stated in another post, wi-fi and air cards are separate animals and are not connected in any manner. We have used a Verizon air card since November '05 with excellent results.
Only once in western Texas did we fail to get online.

Greg Cowgill
'06 Allure

BlankI think I am going to invest in an air card for my computer from Verizon or Alltel. I was wondering if any one had any experience with those cards. I have read that Verizon is very good and satisfactory. My question is if you cannot connect with the card, then can you connect with the wi-fi card using the provider that the air card has.
I know what I want to ask, but is hard to put into words.
Thanks, Pat and John 04 Allure#31022 >

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Hi John and Pat,

Verizon does offer Wi-Fi service but that is a different protocol than using your air card, air card is a cellular service and will not get you connected to Verizon Wi-Fi. You'd need a Wi-Fi card or a built in wireless 802.11b or later wireless adapter. Many late model computers have this adapter included, if not then you can buy an external device for a desktop computer or a wireless card for laptops. (This is not an Air Card). If you can get into a Best Buy or similar store then you could have someone there show you the many optional Wi-Fi adapters. I use a laptop with wi-fi built in. I have a switch that turns the wi-fi antenna on and off, also built in, which allows me to turn off the wi- fi whenever I am using wired hookup or my celluar connection. Many RV parks offer wi-fi service, that is what I am currently using.

You can see a description of what wi-fi is at:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Wi_Fi.html
One disadvantage of Air Card service vs wi-fi is that the digital network used by the Air Card is not as widely available once you get out of metropolitan areas and away from major interstate highways.
Although that is changing as more service areas are being upgraded to digital. Many RV parks as well as restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, truck stops and fast food restaurants offer wi-fi service so that is actually more widespread than is digital data networks using the Air Card.
Ray

2000 Intrigue

Air Cards are essentially cellular data service devices, you can do the same thing using an appropriate cell phone with cable interface between the data equipped cell phones and your computer. Many of them have USB connectors between the cell phone and the computer.

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Pat and John:

I posted the following last month. I've added the URLs for two excellent "Broadband on the Go" stories from PC World.

"For the past two years I've used a combination of Verizon aircard (the National Access/Broadband Access for $60 monthly) and Wi-Fi, traveling, in that two year period, more than nine months. We've been to New Orleans via Washington through California and Texas (including dry camping), and then Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma. By using a combination of aircard and Wi-Fi I had internet all but two weeks in two years. For one of those weeks I paid $10 for internet access and for the other, in Death Valley, I turned off all electronics in the coach and stared at the stars.
"I didn't think to track Verizon download speeds last year, but have done so this year using the Speakeasy speed test (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/).
"Download results have ranged from 132 kbps (0.13 megabytes (MB) per second) near Yuma, Arizona to 591 kbps (.58 MB) in Chula Vista, California.

"For comparison a "fast" dial-up is 56 kbps (0.0547 MB)."

PCWorld "Broadband on the Go"

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124165,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124567,00.asp
Jim Gregory
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I use a Verizon card, one of the first they came out with. I've used it for almost 2 years. Works fine. I have bad service at home, so I use it at home also, it is my only means for Internet connection. Their techincal people are wonderful. I have Cingular cell phones and tried their card a few years back, didn't work as well at my home and the techincal people were not as knowledgable.

Linda

Intrigue 10678

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BlankI think I am going to invest in an air card for my computer from Verizon or Alltel. I was wondering if any one had any experience with those cards. I have read that Verizon is very good and satisfactory.
My question is if you cannot connect with the card, then can you connect with the wi-fi card using the provider that the air card has.
I know what I want to ask, but is hard to put into words.
Thanks, Pat and John 04 Allure#31022