If you're still rocking a PCMCIA slot, and haven't filled it yet with some other tantalizing 3G option,
Cingular just busted out its first UMTS/HSDPA laptop card, the
Sierra Wireless Aircard 875, which might strike your fancy. Built by
Sierra Wireless, who has been quite busy on this front of late, the card has theoretical peaks of 3.6Mbps down and 384Kbps up, and Cingular rates the actual speeds at around 400-700 and 100-120 respectively. While there's not much point to the purchase if you don't have Cingular's 3G Broadband Connect service in your area, the card can serve up EDGE data in a pinch. Without contract the 875 will run you $349.99, but with $149.99 off for a 2-year service agreement, and an additional $100 rebate when you sign up for unlimited data service, you might emerge from your local Cingular store relatively unscathed.
[Thanks, Josh M.]
posted Nov 20th 2006 2:50PM
u can buy it here www.sierraindonesia.com or www.sierra.web.id
my sierra wireless 875 card does not work for some reason.
i run a vista computer and i have downloaded 3g watcher and that worked for a while, and then it stopped and then i worked on downloading att communication manager after i was on the phone for 2 horus and 40 minutes with some guy that was no apparent help.
i dont' know what to do and this isn't working, i can't access my interent without having to go to a place with WIFI.
what should or could i do?! pleaseeee help me!
TOOO MUCH! C'mon. I look forward to the day when Wimax puts an end to this pricing nonsense.
That's not the First 3G UTMS/HSPDA card that Cingular has had. I work for Cingular, we've been seeling a different Sierra card for mouths.
-Baldwin
Sierra Card 860 was the first UMTS/HSDPA card through Cingular.
http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?q_list=true&q_phoneName=Sierra+Wireless+AirCard+860&q_sku=sku1000073-0
-Baldwin
When is Cingular going to come out with it Express/34 card?
Be sure to check out Cingular's TOS for their 3G Broadband Connect. I find the restrictions of their service too limiting to be of any value with the money they want from you.......
I just wonder how skype would run on this.
since HSDPA isnt available in most of the US, sprint's EVDO cards still run circles around this thing.
gsm companies:
cingular beginning to roll out HSDPA(competes with release 0 EVDO)
t-mobile just beginning to use EDGE(competes with old skool 1xRTT)
nobody's gotten to UMTS yet, and that's what's competing with revision A EVDO.
cdma companies:
both VZW and sprint have EVDO release 0 available nationwide
sprint is rolling out revision A EVDO cards and service faster than cinular is rolling out plain jane HSDPA cards and service. sprint's broadband cards give you unlimited EVDO, and revision A if your card supports it, for $60 a month.
sprint's a better deal.
Tool little too late... as always. We don't need more PC Cards, we need PC-Express cards. More and more lappys are pc-x only. Getta clue fools.
This isn't their first. I've had a Sierra Wireless AirCard 860 UMTS/HSDPA card from Cingular since March.
True, this is not the first HSDPA card, it is the first HSDPA card with the theoretical 3.6 Mb/s speed, the 860 was HSDPA compliant but was limited to the theoretical 1.8 mb/s. My uderstanding is that the UMTS W-CDMA upgrade path will eventually lead to theoretical speeds of 14 mb/s, but the 3.6 is a welcome upgrade and clearly puts the cingular ahead of the EVDO rev 0 camp (i.e. verizon) in terms of speed (but not availability).
I guess I'll correct myself. This is the first card that does 3.6Mbps. My card is 1.8Mbps maximum, but it is UMTS/HSDPA.
Hey Baldwin!
You have a card you put in your mouth? How's that work? Doesn't that make everything sound gargled
Sorry I couldn't pass that up.