[competentone]

We got the Verizon broadband (edit: I think we have the same 595 card you're using) after they were supposed to have the system up-and-running in the Charleston, SC area. It feels fast, but seems to handle data in "bursts" so overall it's not real fast. (My wife uses it on the laptop, I'm not sure what she's said her actual speeds are.)

We get disconnected so often we are probably going to cancel the contract. The signal is there (according to what the computer shows), but I suspect they just don't have enough bandwidth so they use some sort of "rolling blackout" technique to disconnect some users in an attempt to "share" a system that can't handle all the traffic.

My brother (trucking) uses Sprint, he doesn't have the problems we've had with Verizon.