Free to a Good Home
Not a puppy or a kitten, rather a Merlin XU870 HSDPA Express Card for a Dell Laptop. 3G speed on AT&T is yours for the asking, everywhere except my new home, which it turns out is a cell desert.
I now have dreaded Comcast Internet service, which is turning out to be not too bad. It would be nice to keep wireless Internet for when I’m traveling, but not $60 a month nice.
First come, first served. dave@ratherthanworking.com
3 comments:
Would it work on a ThinkPad running Ubuntu 8.04 (Linux)?
I kid. Though I have AT&T, making a permanent switch to Linux has proven to be a trial. I've got no confidence I could get it working. Even garden-variety Wi-Fi was a pain-in-the-ass.
On the subject of access, do you prefer Comcast to DSL? I won't switch from the latter. Can't stand the idea of sharing my bandwidth with anyone else.
It actually works fine with Firefox, though the latter doesn't like Google which doesn't like Vista, which really doesn't like anyone.
3G is usually more like DSL lite which is plenty fast enough for what I do. Comcast is faster but not so much that it matters.
Finally, depending on how far down the "pipe" you are, as I understand it, you are losing bandwidth to your neighbors, just like on cable.
no matter what you are sharing bandwidth with someone
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