Cheapest wireless internet plan for laptops?

scaramanga_goldengun

scaramanga_goldengun

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I'm getting a laptop soon, and I wondering (since there are no hotspots near my house), what's the cheapest wireless internet plan (with PC card) for laptops? I don't care too much about download speed, since I'm not going to need anything fast, and even less upload speed, since I barely upload (and if I would it would probably be on my home PC), but what I'd like is unlimited data transfer at the cheapest price possible (since I don't want to keep count of KB's of data loaded at every page I go to). I saw that Verizon Wireless has one, but it's $60 (b/c it's broadband, which I don't need), which is a bit too expensive for me, considering it's monthly. Can anybody help me?

EDIT: Actually, can somebody also clarify "data usage" to me? Ex. if it says I have 5MB of data usage per month, and I load a page with a 5MB picture on it, does that mean my 5MB's are up and it's going to start charging me per kilobyte for the rest of the month? Or is it like a 5MB download limit that is only affected if I download something onto my computer? As if the first part is true, is there any option or plug-in on an internet browser that would not allow anything to load if it were, for example, 100 KB's in size?
 
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I am not US ppl, so don't know the wireless internet plan cost. But the easiest way to go wireless at home is buying a wireless router.
 
Actually, I was planning on using it on-the-go only on my laptop, and that's why I asked. I already knew about the wireless router thing, but I'm not interested in having wireless internet at home.

My main question is defining what "data usage" really is, as I can't find the answer to that.
 
You will want to go EVDO, Sprints plan is $60 or $70 a month for unlimited access and is 768kbps down and 128kbps up, which is about the minimum speed you could really use, at&t would be very slow unless you have 3g in your area. either way your best option is EVDO which is on CDMA networks (sprint or verizon) either way your best bet is to check the maps for all the providers first to see what has the best signal in your area. I am in NYC and use sprint's EVDO and am very pleased with the results for the past year that i've had it.
 
Well, I can afford $60/month, but I don't think it's worth it if I won't use the internet for more than an hour a day on my laptop and not for important things. That's why I'm asking about the data usage thing, because I saw a plan from a provider for $20 a month that had 5MB of data usage (and $60 a month for unlimited), but I don't know what that 5MB means, and I'd really like to know that.
 
Think that if you get an certain plan w/ your cell, you can connect your cell to the computer and get internet! :D
 
that would be extremely slow though, 5mb is very very little that is the size of downloading about 1 song, or watching a few seconds of video online, 5mb monthly is only good if you are downloading a few emails a month. limited internet plans are always a bad idea, unlimited is always the way to go when it comes to these things, the overage rates are very high, meaning it could you hundreds even thousands of dollars if you decide to download a small file on this connection.
 
Okay, thanks, that's the answer I was looking for.

I guess I can get by without it, and just get the emails online in the morning, view/send emails during the day offline, and then reconnect to the internet to update/send/etc. I realized I'll barely use the laptop as it is now.
 
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