I just finally broke down and bought a broadband connection card for my laptop. I have a treo 650, and had thought about upgrading to the Treo 700 to get the same speed, but, it's $39.95/month unlimited, but my phone has to used for the connection. Kinda defeats the purpose of working if I can't make phone calls!
So I went with the broadband card instead. Wow, this is just amazing. It's about 2x faster then the base DSL service out there, and I can get to it anywhere...
The thing that pushed me over the edge in buying one was caused by a 3 hour trip to the tire store and oil change place. I spent the whole time on my laptop, using the slow speed of my Treo 650. I bet I could have got done in less then 45 minutes what took me 3 hours to accomplish with my slower internet.
TIME IS MONEY!
I am sitting here at Starbucks, getting ready for my soccer game tonight. If I didn't have the card, I would have had to drive to Panera Bread for wireless, about 15 minutes one way. I just saved myself 30 minutes of driving.
Starbucks has wireless, but it's expensive and not worth it, since I have to be at Starbucks to actually use it, with this broadband card, I can be anywhere there is cell phone service that has the new high speed data network from sprint.
Highly recommend for those virtual office people. I think I am only in the office a few hours a week now.
I need to pick up a portable printer next and one of those pen based scanners for my car, then I would be totally virtual in my car.
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