Slow internet access with wireless card...

#1 (**permalink**) 09-15-2006, 12:22 PM

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

#2 (**permalink**) 09-15-2006, 11:43 PM

Unfortunately its just the technology we have now. Whether you decide
to go with sprint or verizon youre still going to be receiving the same
slow speed. http://www.safelotvegas.com/
david ortiz wrote:
> 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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#3 (**permalink**) 09-16-2006, 03:08 AM

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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#4 (**permalink**) 09-16-2006, 03:47 AM

<Safelot@lvcoxmail.com> wrote in message
news:1158363809.505146.153290@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> Unfortunately its just the technology we have now. Whether you decide
> to go with sprint or verizon youre still going to be receiving the same
> slow speed. http://www.safelotvegas.com/
> david ortiz wrote:

Absolute BULLSHIT!!!

I have been using a Verizon EVDO Datacard (KPC-650) and it flat out flies!
Downloads over 800k and uploads around 130K.
I watch full speed video with it all over town and on a train.

The REAL fact is....Cingular SUCKS!
The best i can compare Cingular's data thruput is...it's like shitting thru
an old sock....

TRY a Verizon datacard for the FREE 14 day tryout.
If it doesnt blow Cingular away you can take it back....

#5 (**permalink**) 09-16-2006, 04:09 AM

At 15 Sep 2006 16:43:29 -0700 Safelot@lvcoxmail.com wrote:
> Unfortunately its just the technology we have now. Whether you decide
> to go with sprint or verizon youre still going to be receiving the same
> slow speed.

Nonsense. The Nokia D311 the OP is using is a GPRS card that runs at
45kbps, or about dialup speed. A newer Cingular compatible card with
EDGE would run 4x that fast, or about 180k, and as other posters have
pointed out, newer 3G cards on Verizon (or Sprint, or even Cingular's new
3G network) are MUCH faster.

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#6 (**permalink**) 09-16-2006, 06:56 PM

bottom line: you need a newer data card

"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

#7 (**permalink**) 09-16-2006, 08:58 PM

jay420 wrote:
> bottom line: you need a newer data card

Yup.

Perhaps the following will shed some light on this for you. Chart
(image) below from site below that. The article is a little old, but
its a good one.

http://i.cmpnet.com/nc/1520/graphics/1520f2c.gif

http://www.networkcomputing.com/stor...cleID=49400836