Originally posted by acrdklr:
actually i meant stand alone wireless internet with out having to connect to your cell. it is about the same speed range as dsl. i think i shouldn't have read this thread because now i am getting all kinds of ideas on how to set this up. damn......no money right now. 
Ahh, I see...
I know what you're talkin about, a dude in Texas had the Verizon PCMCIA card and used Earthlink for his internet, around 200-300Kbps. Don't know what he was payin/month.
Another guy had the T-Mobile PCMCIA card and used T-Mobile internet. It connected around 190-200Kbps, he was paying $39.99/month (the card cost $299 to start, though).
I just got the data cord for my cell and used it as a wirless modem with MSN until I found out T-Mobile offered free internet. Only drawback was the free stuff was limited to only recieving TCP port 80 (so no hotmail, etc.). On my phone MSN connected at 9.6Kbps  and the GPRS T-Mobile connected at 50Kbps (samsung w/serial data kit), the dude with the PC card tried his Sony Ericsson using IR, it connected the same as his PC card (but was still limited to port 80).
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