On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Erik Anderson wrote: > The latency of these cards is horrible, though. They're surely good to > have around for when no other internet connection is available, but > *man* they're laggy. Interactive ssh sessions are interesting...you > learn to really trust you're typing correctly, as it might be several > seconds before it's echoed back :-) Actually, with 3G cards (at least on AT&T), latency is quite decent. I average 140ms-200ms - granted not nearly as good as we're used to, but good enough for interactive SSH. ;) Much better than the 900ms+ on GPRS, or the 600+ on EVDO/EDGE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------