On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Daniel Herrington < [email protected]> wrote:
> I use a Verizon usb dongle (USB727) on my laptop (Ubuntu 10.04) when > traveling. Not sure if that's 3G or not. I think it's pretty good. I've > only had connection issues once in a high rise in Chicago. It's fast > enough for web surfing, email, and iso downloads. I haven't tried to > streaming movies on it, but based on the iso downloads (dvd in about an > hour to hour and a half) I don't think speed is that bad. > > I'd second the good experiences with Verizon dongles; I've used a USB760 quite a bit with the same caveat of having to activate it in Windows the first time. I tested a 3G USB key from AT&T and found that it's linux support was quite lacking, I wish I remembered the modle number so you could avoid it, but I sadly do not. Obviously YMMV depending on what's out there now. Alex Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
