# Cellular Broadband..for you celly geeks **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952 "2006-10-31T11:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZEX350Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/87869e/32.png) [@ZEX350Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZEX350Z)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/1 "2006-10-31T11:16:23Z")
1.)ok, so I see that that sprint offers a card to insert into your laptop for broadband. If this service is purchased, can you network other computers off of that ISP? My local DSL is 7XX K Maximum(and very rarely get it!) and I pay $55 /month. Its my only option as I am in a private housing plan w/ out any other options. 2.) When using broadband ON cell phones, can you link your cell phone to a laptop w/o the laptop card and get \>DSL speeds on the laptop? ---
**Author:** ![SMort38](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smort38/32/6008_2.png) [@SMort38](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SMort38)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/2 "2006-10-31T11:48:34Z")
in response to question #2… our salesman here at work have laptops and some wire that allows them to plug in on the road and get “dial up” speeds. i have a treo with verizon broad band internet. its pretty quick, but not equivilant to a DSL on a computer… i have heard they were coming out with a similar solution to connect to laptops but i have not really seen it. ---
**Author:** ![whitey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/whitey/32/5911_2.png) [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/3 "2006-10-31T12:02:03Z")
> [@Latest crime wave in Buffalo... Inspection sticker theft](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/latest-crime-wave-in-buffalo-inspection-sticker-theft/25487/4): > > 1.)ok, so I see that that sprint offers a card to insert into your laptop for broadband. If this service is purchased, can you network other computers off of that ISP? yes… it creates a network connection, you would simply turn on Internet Connection sharing. This would turn your laptop into a DHCP server and you could have other clients connect to the laptop to get internet. ---
**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/4 "2006-10-31T12:35:21Z")
Some of the sprint phones allow “phone as modem,” I don’t know if verizon lets you do that. I talked to a guy on the phone who said the data plan was $20/month, and with a Treo 700, you can do phone-as modem for free, but the fag in the store yesterday tried to tell me you have to pay for a data plan, and pa extra for this phone as modem deal. I think that’s just for lower-end phones, but I don’t really know. I find the idiots in the sprint stores just sling phones, and they don’t know shit about service plans. They barely know what the in-store literature says. If you call Sprint, and get a national sales rep, they know wtf is going on. ---
**Author:** ![95V8TBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/a8b319/32.png) [@95V8TBird](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95V8TBird)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/5 "2006-10-31T13:48:32Z")
when I had my house in Clinton, i didn;t have internet service, so I used my A900 for my internet. I bought a bluetooth connector for the back of the laptop so I didn’t have to use the cord, but it worked pretty good, not quite Cable speed, but probably about DSL speed. it worked well with the bluetooth, plus I didn’t have to carry my cell phone with me everywhere I took the laptop, i just left it on the charger cause it sucks the phone battery down pretty quick, plus it was pretty convienient for road trips ---
**Author:** ![hayabusa03rx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90ced4/32.png) [@hayabusa03rx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/hayabusa03rx)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cellular-broadband-for-you-celly-geeks/185952/6 "2006-10-31T19:08:06Z")
Check out [www.sprintusers.com](http://www.sprintusers.com) I’m sure you can find your answer there.