On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Brad du Plessis wrote:

> If you're interested in a GPRS/EDGE solution I use a USB Falcom Samba 75 
> for internet and it works well most of the time. GPRS is not 
> particularly fast, in real world usage you'll get 30-40 Kbps. EDGE is a 
> bit better (up to 128 Kbps in practice) but is less widely supported in 
> general.

Thanks, Brad, for the note.

I see that my current cell phone provider, T-Mobile, offers it. It looks 
like that is what my Sidekick II uses -- it is slow and not very reliable 
enough for me (at least on the Sidekick II itself).

The card they suggest is Sony Ericsson GC89 PC Card. I am not sure if 
supported by NetBSD, but it looks like it is supported by OpenBSD-current 
and FreeBSD.

It also looks like Cingular also provides this GPRS/EDGE in the United 
States. I don't know what the required "Cingular Wireless PC Card" is 
though.

It appears that the EVDO service from Verizon is faster and has more 
coverage area, but I don't know from experience. (And I don't want to buy 
two different cards and two different service plans :)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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