Re: GPRS/EDGE PCMCIA/MiniPCI card working perfectly with Debian
Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>:
>
> since my "Nokia 6120 classic" is screwing me up, please can anyone
> recommend a perfect workin[g] PCMCIA and a MiniPCI card for my
> Laptop and my Router?
Sorry, no.
> I need it only to get my messages out of my Mailboxes and respond
> in an acceptable delay... Going 2-3 times per week in a Internet
> cafe and downloadig tonns (20-100 MBytes) of messages (I get
> around 3500 legitim[ate] message[s] per day) is annoying.
GPRS supports speeds up to 114 kbit/s. Can't you find anybody[*]
who's offering cat-5 10BaseT connections at least, or adsl speeds? I
pay thirty bucks a month for adsl.
[*] I am supremely ignorant of Internet cafe practice.
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