Is there a PCMCIA card that will let me connect to the Internet wirelessly from anywhere without carrying a cellphone?

Hello! I am doing a research for my father who travels a lot in U.S. and outside of it.

Is there a device that lets travellers to use his/her laptop/notebook on the Internet anywhere
wirelessly without carrying and hooking up devices and cables to a cellular phone. Not everywhere
has wireless hotspots to connect to, so cellular phones conenctions would have to be. Cost and
Internet speed (e.g., Web surfing, e-mails, etc.) should be decent. The OS is Windows XP Media
Center and a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 4 I think.

Currently, GoMadic has a device but it is a hassle to carry the cables, connectors, device, etc.
Also, it is easy to break due to a lot of travelling. At least with a PCMCIA card, it is bundled
in the laptops/notebooks like those onboard wireless network interfaces for wireless networks.

Thank you in advance.
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Verizon Wireless has a broadband PCMCIA card. Some laptops come with
the card built in. My Son says there is a Linksys router that supports
the Verizon card. I have Verizon broadband on my pocketpc. Sounds kinda
neat, no longer looking for a WIFI hot spot.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, "howkasam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Verizon Wireless has a broadband PCMCIA card. Some laptops come with
>the card built in. My Son says there is a Linksys router that supports
>the Verizon card. I have Verizon broadband on my pocketpc. Sounds kinda
>neat, no longer looking for a WIFI hot spot.
>

Haven't been overseas with this combination, have we? Verizon hardware
sadly on works in US, no one else uses their modulation scheme it seems.
Might want to look into any offerings from AT&T/ Cingular. While no big fan
of theirs, their netowrk is more globally compatable.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:24:20 GMT, in alt.internet.wireless ,
(E-Mail Removed) (Rico) wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, "howkasam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>Verizon Wireless has a broadband PCMCIA card. Some laptops come with
>>the card built in. My Son says there is a Linksys router that supports
>>the Verizon card. I have Verizon broadband on my pocketpc. Sounds kinda
>>neat, no longer looking for a WIFI hot spot.
>>
>
>Verizon hardware
>sadly on works in US, no one else uses their modulation scheme it seems.

You guys with your antique CDMA or whatever it is. :-)
You'll need a tri-band PCMCIA mobile phone card, and for good luck an
802.11b/g wireless card. Plus a phone company with good roaming deals.
It'll be a heck of a lot cheaper to get a decent triband phone and a
modem cable tho....

Mark McIntyre
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Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> It'll be a heck of a lot cheaper to get a decent triband phone and a
> modem cable tho....

Or a phone and a bluetooth link... None of those nasty cables.

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:27 +0000 (UTC), in alt.internet.wireless ,
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> It'll be a heck of a lot cheaper to get a decent triband phone and a
>> modem cable tho....
>
>Or a phone and a bluetooth link... None of those nasty cables.

Possibly.
My own experience of bluetooth phones has been pretty awful - I found
they kept losing connection.
Mark McIntyre
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In <(E-Mail Removed)> on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:17:58
+0100, Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:27 +0000 (UTC), in alt.internet.wireless ,
>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>>Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> It'll be a heck of a lot cheaper to get a decent triband phone and a
>>> modem cable tho....
>>
>>Or a phone and a bluetooth link... None of those nasty cables.
>
>Possibly.
>My own experience of bluetooth phones has been pretty awful - I found
>they kept losing connection.

Dead reliable here.

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In <d4mdnc-(E-Mail Removed)> on Tue, 11 Apr 2006
08:15:41 -0500, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Hello! I am doing a research for my father who travels a lot in U.S. and outside of it.
>
>Is there a device that lets travellers to use his/her laptop/notebook on the Internet anywhere
>wirelessly without carrying and hooking up devices and cables to a cellular phone. Not everywhere
>has wireless hotspots to connect to, so cellular phones conenctions would have to be. Cost and
>Internet speed (e.g., Web surfing, e-mails, etc.) should be decent. The OS is Windows XP Media
>Center and a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 4 I think.
>
>Currently, GoMadic has a device but it is a hassle to carry the cables, connectors, device, etc.
>Also, it is easy to break due to a lot of travelling. At least with a PCMCIA card, it is bundled
>in the laptops/notebooks like those onboard wireless network interfaces for wireless networks.
>
>Thank you in advance.

Sony Ericsson GC89 will give him GPRS/EGPRS(EDGE) and Wi-Fi in the same card.
<http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp5_loader&p hp=php1_10225&zone=pp&lm=pp5_1&pid=10225>
Can be used in the USA on Cingular or T-Mobile. Cingular will give better
speeds due to widespread EGPRS(EDGE) coverage. T-Mobile will be cheaper.

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Mark McIntyre <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> My own experience of bluetooth phones has been pretty awful - I found
> they kept losing connection.

Would that be the Phone-GPRS connection (which wouldn't change with a USB
cable on that particular phone), or the phone-PC BT connection, which I
don't recall ever having mysteriously disappear.

My phone is within a foot of the PC when I'm using it... I have heard some
complaints of the range of some of the phones to be pretty short, probably
in the interests of BT snoop prevention.

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John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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> In <d4mdnc-(E-Mail Removed)> on Tue, 11 Apr 2006
> 08:15:41 -0500, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> >Hello! I am doing a research for my father who travels a lot in U.S. and outside of it.
> >
> >Is there a device that lets travellers to use his/her laptop/notebook on the Internet anywhere
> >wirelessly without carrying and hooking up devices and cables to a cellular phone. Not everywhere
> >has wireless hotspots to connect to, so cellular phones conenctions would have to be. Cost and
> >Internet speed (e.g., Web surfing, e-mails, etc.) should be decent. The OS is Windows XP Media
> >Center and a Toshiba Satellite Pentium 4 I think.
> >
> >Currently, GoMadic has a device but it is a hassle to carry the cables, connectors, device, etc.
> >Also, it is easy to break due to a lot of travelling. At least with a PCMCIA card, it is bundled
> >in the laptops/notebooks like those onboard wireless network interfaces for wireless networks.
> >
> >Thank you in advance.

> Sony Ericsson GC89 will give him GPRS/EGPRS(EDGE) and Wi-Fi in the same card.
> <http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp5_loader&p hp=php1_10225&zone=pp&lm=pp5_1&pid=10225>
> Can be used in the USA on Cingular or T-Mobile. Cingular will give better
> speeds due to widespread EGPRS(EDGE) coverage. T-Mobile will be cheaper.

So you still need to carry the cellphone to use this. That is what we want to avoid.
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