Wireless Broadband Help

[Clifw1f]

I've been trying to help a friend that's stuck with dial up. My friend lives in an area where cable and dsl are unavailable. (Satellite is a little too expensive).

We've found that one of the cell phone companies has service with their high speed card (Sony/Ericksson) in the area but my friend has a G5 tower and an iBook and neither have the cardbus slot.

I figure this isn't the first time this issue has come up so I'm looking around for solutions. I've checked the net for either a PCMIA to USB adapter (anything I found that sounds right isn't available anymore) or (and this would be the hands down winner) a wireless router that would take the Sony card and distribute the signal to both computers.

Does anyone have any ideas or work arounds?

Thanks.

 

[portent]

You'd have to be pretty desperate, but you can get a wireless broadband router like this. It uses a CDMA PC card for the connection, and serves up an AirPort connection to the computer(s).

I say desperate, because it's $280, plus service (Verizon or Sprint.)

 

[Clifw1f]

Thanks . . .

. . . it's a start. At least there is an answer. I was hoping there was a simple USB adapter that let you plug the card into a Mac without a card slot. . .

Thanks for the feedback. I'll post any other solution we come up with. Heck, I'll even post if we use this solution.