WHEN IS ENOUNGH SPEED ENOUGH?

You know it’s funny, I’m a very computer literate person, which can be good and bad. In this increasingly mobile society, (and I refer to the technological aspect,) fast is just not fast enough!

Having had broadband for a number of years and a wireless network in my house and home office, I now use an ‘air card’ with my laptop when doing open houses. That air card costs me $60 per month through my local cellular phone service provider, and when you

Is it worth it? Well I guess that it is, because if no one is coming through the particular ‘open house’ that I’m doing, it gives me a chance to get some things done on the internet that I couldn’t normally do. I can also justify the cost by the mere fact that maybe someone who does show up will need immediate information from the MLS, although I really can’t recall that ever happening. 

(I think that is why I told my other half that I needed the card!)

But when you figure how much it is actually used, (maybe 16 hours a month at best,) it costs a pretty penny per hour. The one thing that really does bother me though isn’t the cost monthly, but rather the speed. After having true broadband for my wireless network, although they call it broadband, the air card is pretty damn slow. As a matter of fact, I find myself waiting an obnoxiously long time for sites to load more often than not.

After going to my local Sprint PCS store to complain and see whether they had a faster card, I was told that it all had to do with the configuration of the local towers. They said that if I lived in New York or Chicago, my speeds would be far different and much faster because of the towers there.

Great…just what I need to do is leave Naples and move to New York or Chicago just to increase my speed. Somehow…I don’t think so!!!