I've got Virgin Mobile Broadband on my laptop. The only options I had were Sprint or Virgin. Virgin was cheaper than Sprint and it runs through the Sprint network. No contracts or deposit's and it is only 40.00/month. It is pay by the month/plan, and you only have to use it once per year to keep your air card/account active.
It works good to great most places I go, however, at home in the woods it slows down because we are in a dead zone. I have a Sprint cell phone and I have to go outside to use it. I do have a repeater that I should hook up and try out again. It did work somewhat last time, but I need to get the antenna up about 50 feet or so.
The air card works better at home if I run it through my router. I have a Cradlepoint MBR1000 router that the air card plugs into. I get a better signal that way because I can put the air card and router in a better location. The router has a range of about 750 feet, although I have never tried that distance, I do get a good signal in my garden and that is about 500 feet.
The air card I have is the MC760. It was 80 bucks plus tax. I am pretty sure the monthly plans went up to 50.00, but I am locked in at 40.00.
My brother has the MiFi unit, and that works pretty good also.
