On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Chris Smith wrote: > Only recently has it started to consistently connect to a "3G" source > here in Edina, MN. Recently as of 11/1? That's when AT&T turned on 3G in Minneapolis. ;) If it's been more recently than that, they probably boosted the power from your local tower or something. But, yes, you do need to be in a 3G area.. and if not 3G, *hopefully* at least EDGE. > (I assume they have a fallback to GPRS only when not near a 3g source). Correct - any modern card will fall back to EDGE first, then GPRS. > I thought i'd be able to use it to work well at Detroit Lakes this > summer, but no such luck. That is one downside with HSDPA (the 3G tech that AT&T currently uses) -- it actually requires new hardware at the tower sites to move the towers from supporting EDGE -> 3G, so the rollout is much, much slower than on networks like Verizon and Sprint where (from what I've heard) it's at the most a card upgrade at the tower. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------