wireless Broadband

I take it thats the little dooh hicky that plugs into your laptop with the little antenna you pull up.If so the secretary at work has it and it is slow.Alot of the time of an evening she carnt even get logged in and when she does she said it was painfully slow.
If your talking about something else, oh well!!

Mike works like magic in unbelievable places. Have large CDMA aerial on fold up plastic marine bracket on caravan. Aerial costa motza like $290 incl bracket wiring and patch cable. Worth every dollar paid. In country areas speed is 144kb and gets downloads at average 10kb and in EVDO areas speed is 256k and gets downloads at average 28kb. If travelling and no coverage then get to top of rise or hill and normally always have coverage.
No complaints with coverage and know quite a number of others with Bigpond card and no complaints. Sign up online at Bigpond and get 12 months at half price. You cannot get it by going to Telstra shops or phoning up. Is simple and quick to sign up online.

Hi Mike, yes we have Bigpond Wireless on hubby's laptop and took it on holidays with us a while ago and was amazed at where we could get coverage, (where we couldn't get coverage for our phones). the speed at the time was a bit slower than at home however there was a problem with the laptop at the time. We got ours from a telstra shop at Cannington and received the halfprice incentive as well, in fact the guy there actually set it up for us. If you would like any more info on it let me know.

Cheers

D&B

I am currently using it and tonight has been the first problem with reception. Works well but is you are going to be on the road or in a van I would recommend a better antenna then the one supplied (if available). Speeds in country areas seem to be better that dialup most of the time. I got deal with card cost (299) refunded blus few months free connection. Many of the guys at work using it (from ships) and I have not heard many reported problems (except cost of service and how poor Australia is in regards to affordable Broadband connection).

Hi all

As you may know CDMA is being phased out in 18 months and the new NextG network fired up 2 weeks ago. I have CDMA wirless broadband and Telstra will send me for free a new NextG card when available. This process will take a little time as Telstra was gearing up for a 3 year change over but Govt pressure forced them to switch on the new Next G network 2 years ahead of time so the sale of Telstra would look more attractive. So if you go in to Telstra ask about the new system.

Cheers
Jack

We are about to go on the road for 6 months round Oz. I have an CDMA/EVDO pda that I was going to use to connect laptop. Have got it working ok - but upon further investigation, data charges were going to be excessive, as we will be using internet, uploading photos etc.

I have just bought a Next G card from Telstra - better charge structure for proper internet usage. Given we were only going away for 6 months, I just paid for card and went on 12 month contract...will see what happens after that.

Apparently the Next G cards are different to the broadband cards currently available - and I have been told whilst these can be upgraded to Next G, the new Next G cards work better. They take up to 10 days to be delivered.

Probably all wrong ..... but this is what I have been told.

Like most things, I will be able to give much better feedback on all of the things we have been "advised" to get after our trip..

Cheers

Alan