Or, I should say, Sprint is done with us. Here’s the story.
About a year and a half ago, when we were preparing to sell our house and go fulltime RVing, we had to decide what to do about getting a reliable internet connection. One of the discussion groups we participate in has a guy whose screen name is EVDO Alex. He works for the 3G store. I don’t understand those terms but I know that means Alex knows a lot about wireless stuff–and how it relates to RVing.
So Dave contacted EVDO Alex and asked what we should do. We already knew most fulltime RVers use Verizon for their data connections so we expected to hear that recommended. Wrong. At that time Sprint had a sharing agreement with Alltel which gave Sprint the best nationwide coverage. So we bought a Sprint aircard with a two year contract.
Guess what? Verizon is buying Alltel. And Sprint doesn’t really understand fulltiming.
So we got a letter in our most recent batch of mail telling us Sprint doesn’t like how much time we spend roaming on other networks. So they are cancelling our two year contract without charging us the early out fees. Aren’t they nice?
So we now have a Verizon aircard I wonder how long we’ll be able to use it?
TTYL,
Linda
ps. Anyone living in Sprint territory in need of an aircard?
So, my question to you is EVDO Alex an agent for Sprint? Probably.
No he’s not. He’s an RVer who works for the 3G Store. He recommends what is best for your situation at the time. Which 1 1/2 years ago, with us wanting to travel east as well as west, was a combination of Sprint and Alltel. Those of you who stay west do well with Verizon. Hopefully, now that Verizon and Alltel are a combo we will do well with it, too.
Linda – I use the Verizon aircard and have had excellent coverage everywhere we’ve been. I’ve been in two places where we didn’t have coverage – one in Arizona and one in Montana. It’s worked great out here on the East Coast for us. Haven’t had trouble with a connection anywhere out here so far.
Linda, I’ve had two Verizon aircards, one for my PowerBook G4 and now one for my MacBook Pro and they have both worked fine. I also bought one of the new MiFi devices from Verizon in hopes it would replace the router I needed for the aircard. It does act as a base station but the silly thing goes to sleep at the slightest opportunity and needs reseting to wake it up. Also, the MiFi is an 802.11g device while the Time Capsule base station we have a the house is an 802.11n and is much, much faster. Susan likes to watch TV show rebroadcasts on the Internet (hulu.com) and 802.11g just isn’t fast enough for reliable video.