Assuming your laptop doesn't have a lot of junk installed, and you've upgraded the RAM (pretty cheap, and the speed increase is substantial) it's the card and service. GPRS and EDGE is simply slower than wired DSL and Cable. Also, as a data user, you are second in line to voice traffic, which is the bread and butter of cell companies.

A cell antenna or amplifier may help.

CS
"david ortiz" <MR-FDDADDY@webtv.net> wrote in message news:3477-450A9B0D-385@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net...
I am using an IBM Thinkpad 600X Pentium 3 498 Mhz with a Nokia D311 to
access Cingulars data plan and I must admit that a lot of times it is a
slow loading experience trying to log onto a lot of sites. Could it be
the card I am using or could it be the laptop? Maybe switching to
Verizon or Sprint would provide better service? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. TIA




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