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Hello I just purchased a macbook, the 2 core duo, 1 gb ram model.
So far so good. Nonetheless, I was wondering if someone could help
me with this.
My goal is to have internet access everywhere I go around the US with my mac.
It seems to me that the airport option would only work if you would be willing
to pay 10 dollars a day or so at whatever establishment you are in (Starbucks,
the airport, etc) or if you happen to be lucky at the right place and right time
and hook up to someone's internet wireless connection through airport.
Now, what I want would probably be offered by something like sprint or verizon, except
that 1) sprint really doesnt have a mac compatible card, 2) verizon doesnt have
a usb compatible card as my macbook only has usbs and not a pcmcia card
So what are my options?
Do people just go to starbucks and pay $10 a day for access or so through airport and whatever
online service starbucks or wherever you are offers?
or is there another more civilized and less expensive way to get around the problem?
My thought is to buy one of those pcmcia to usb adapter (expensive though $225 or so) and
connect it to a verizon pcmcia card and subscribe to verizon for unlimited access. Would this work? Any thoughts? I will really appreciate it.
Somehow, apple should not have just left usb slots on these machines while removing the
pcmcias
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Verizon's USB720 EV-DO modem comes with drivers for OS X. $129 with 2-year service agreement @ $80/mo (discounted rate (60ish) available if you also have voice service with Verizon). Gives you service anywhere you can get a cell signal; performance is a couple hundred kbps at best.
Or you could go with T-mobile HotSpot access; wifi access at ~8300 locations (every Starbucks, every Fedex Kinkos, many hotels and airports) for $40/mo with no contract or $360/year ($20/mo if you have T-mobile voice service). Performance can be up to a megabit or so within a few hundred feet of a hotspot.
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Do you think the sprint u720 is better and how much of a drag
is it to get those sprint apple drivers? or would u recommend verizon?
i think the t mobile is not practical as i may not want to just
be in a starbucks most of the time, and would like coverage
everywhere.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Welcome to the MacNN forums!!!!
But let's start out with reviewing just how broad our forums are. There's a whole forum JUST FOR NETWORKING issues-including this one. We like to keep our machine-specific forums for machine-specific questions, so I'm going to move this to the Networking forum.
And again, WELCOME!
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Originally Posted by emarchan 
Do you think the sprint u720 is better and how much of a drag
is it to get those sprint apple drivers? or would u recommend verizon?
i think the t mobile is not practical as i may not want to just
be in a starbucks most of the time, and would like coverage
everywhere.
I've heard nothing but trouble with regard to getting OS X drivers from Sprint, while Verizon makes it easy.
P.S. Why do you insist on writing such short lines? It's like you're hitting enter every time you get to the edge of the text box.
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