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. -- froggy brought to you by http://www.wifi-forum.com/

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.

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froggy wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteWhatever gave you the idea that you can't leave a laptop on? I am in Las
Vegas (Boulder Highway and Nellis), have 3 laptops (two toshiba and one
Fiju) and a PDA on a home network, apt complex uses sat (no cable) and a
switching phone system (no dsl), so I use an audiovox pc 5220 card in one of
the laptops that gives me always on internet (NationalAccess in most places
I travel to and BroadBandAccess ((EVDO)) here in Vegas), and except when
traveling (and once for an hour or so during a power failure), it has been
on continuosly for over a year. Got WiFi built in to your laptop? I run an
always on open/free hotspot (SSID PP in LV, internet connection available
when I am in town).
For what it's worth, depending on the design of the laptop, it may get hot
(some do some don't), but they make heat dissipating plates/bases/trays to
set em on (got em at Fry's on Las Vegas Blvd, aluminum with ridges).
If you are only gonna use it on one machine, no problem, if you want to
share the internet connection on a network, be aware that the Mobile Office
software addon specifically for the 5220 card stops sharing, but you can get
around that very easily (check alt.cellular.verizon or email me at PeterPan
at Akamail dot com).
As for file sharing, it works fine with regular downloads, but has a problem
with sharing on peer to peer networks.

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:31:03 -0800, "Peter Pan"
<Marcs1102NOSPAM@HotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote:
    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

E Brown wrote:
Show quoteHide quoteDepends 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.

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:31:03 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless , "Peter Pan"
<Marcs1102NOSPAM@HotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote:

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.

Mark McIntyre wrote:
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?

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:30:38 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless , "Peter Pan"
<Marcs1102NOSPAM@HotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote:

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.

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