I got to thinking about the coverage I get with my iPhone and took the device and a laptop to an area where AT&T 3G is not available – that is pretty easy to do – all I have to do is go down the hill to where my driveway connects with the road. Edge is 0.4M … I have used “Air Cards” in the past with laptops, the price is about the same as MIFI but they only will run the computer that they are connected to and by what I was seeing the MIFI cards work better than Air Cards. …

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Rural High Speed Internet needed? Here might be an answer …