Before my current two week trip to Texas I decided to pick up a Sprint Mobile Broadband adapter. I figured this is a business trip and I'll be online every evening most likely, costing me around $12 a day.

With the adapter costing me $0 (with contract, no biggie - been with Sprint for how long now?) it seemed a good idea. Sure I'll have to deal with the $59 monthly fee long term but still, I think it was worth it. I refuse to pay for wireless in an airport and now, anywhere I go (assuming Sprint coverage) I'll be set. I almost got the PCMCIA card (or rather the ExpressCard with a PCMCIA slot adapter), but opted for the USB model because 1. It was free 2. I can take it to any PC.

Overall the speeds have been more than acceptable. I won't be hauling down the Domino 8.5 install image over it, but for general mail/web/small download it works great.

So if you're interested, it is the 598U from Sierra Wireless. We'll see how this works long term, but so far it is just what I needed.