Total Wireless card and notebook

Depends on what you want to do on the internet.. The ping times (about 800 ms) make it way unusable for real time things like gaming, but if you tend to do stuff on one site at a time (download files etc) it's awesome. Before getting an apartment here in vegas, I used to live and travel in my RV. The only high speed internet I had in it, was sat, and that had the same problem (slow prop times). From personal use, it's about the same as I was used to with sat internet (no gaming etc), but from paying the bills every month, it is cheaper than sat service (that was about $100 a month), and works while moving (rather than have to park/setup and aim the sat dish).. Heck, just for fun a few months ago, I rented a boat on Lake Mead and was able to be online to send email and digital pix while sailing, and for fun on new years eve, I hooked the webcam to my laptop and sent a live video feed of the fireworks to my sister (she had to work). Even the lower speed NationalAccess(1X) was fine for things like security webcams/monitored elsewhere. The propogation delay, while noticable in real time and while switching sites, was pretty much unnoticable once connected. Again, it all depends on what you want to do online. EVDO will not speed up your ping/propogation times.. It pretty much depends on what you want to do.

I think they have a limited wireless (10 or 20 mb) a month for $39.00 a month. If you are only doing email and banking and stuff that's all you need. If you are going to download DVD's and MP3's it's not economical at all even if unlimited.

Hey guys,

I just bought a laptop and I now think about a total wireless card with

verizon for an unlimited acces at $80. I am in Las Vegas and I know the

coverage with verizon works but most important I will be moving around

so I do not want a cable access, well I want my freedom!

Can you guys tell me about it. I plan to do some files charing (emule).

Is this possible with this unlimited kind of connection? I know that it

is not very recommended to let a laptop run for days but may be I am

wrong. I am not familiar with all this so feel free to enhance my

knowledge. I am on the edge to buy this verizon wireless connection but

before doing any mistakes I need some advices. Thanks guys.

Peter, how do you like EVDO. I had the previous wireless internet service last year and dropped it because it was laggy and slow. Soon after (of course), Chicago switched to EVDO but no one I've met is using it. Emanuel

I can understand how a battery can explode, but theres absolutely nothing in a computer itself that can explode. I wonder if that's the same thing as cellphones explode, when it's actually the batteries that explode.. Did your friends battery explode?

Some laptop PSUs are not designed for continuous work and can overheat. A colleague of mine was startled one evening when his company-supplied Compaq exploded. Fortunately nobody was in his study at the time but the lappy was a write-off as was part of his desk. This was one of the old ones with a builtin power supply.

No, the computer exploded.

I imagine that the (internal) PSU caught fire, the combustive gases were trapped inside the case, and this caused an explosive rupture. *bang*

If you think it is impossible for nonflammable things to explode, read up on flour bombs.