Last Updated on December 4, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
Here’s a quick update on our Sierra Wireless Aircard (595U) and Sprint service….
So far, so good. We’ve been on the road in upstate new york (Lake Placid and Lake George). Right now, I’m in the lobby of the Sagamore hotel with about 2 bars and getting 699 kbps down and 308 kbps up according to the speakeasy speed test. According to one of the hotel staff, there is a cellular tower nearby.
I didn’t test the speed up in Lake Placid, but the connectivity was flawless.
I would prefer a built in aircard but the Sierra card works fine, even when plugged into a plain old mini usb hub.
Right now, we are running on a new HP Laptop with Vista Home Premium. We did need to download the latest Sierra software. It gave us a little trouble connecting for the required updates but that was probably because our home office is in a really bad cellular area. Once the update got loaded, it’s run like clockwork.