I've had a Cingular / ATT 3g Card for a couple of years now.. It depends SO MUCH on your physical location. Only recently has it started to consistently connect to a "3G" source here in Edina, MN. (I assume they have a fallback to GPRS only when not near a 3g source). You might want to check with a local LUG. My company has contractors in Texas and AZ and there the Verizon cards are WAY faster than Cingular cards. I have an Option GT MAX Qualcom 3g CDMA for the record. Right now my laptop runs Vista. ( I know, but all my servers and my desktop run RHEL or Fedora) so I couldn't tell you about compat. issues. When not in 3g mode it is nearly unusable for my email (Scalix) or even ssh.. I thought i'd be able to use it to work well at Detroit Lakes this summer, but no such luck. (ended up leaching a neighbors unsecured WiFi.) YMMV Christopher Smith Sysadmin.. Linux User since 1997. On Jan 16, 2008 2:43 PM, Harv Nelson <ai9nl at arrl.net> wrote: > I'm out in nevada/arizona camping on the dessert ... I'm sick of > chasing back to town to go to the library to do email. do any of you > have experience with an air card from either ATT, or Sprint?, or > whatever company? so far I'm finding that many of the USB units they > want to sell me won't work with our system only bill's stuff or MAC. > any pointers, suggestions or tips are welcome. > > thanks, > > HARV, AI9NL > washburn, wi > currently in > lasvegas,nv > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- "The gun... insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." Ronald Reagan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080116/f8e8d03a/attachment.htm