Air card recs

Hi, I am traveling to some locations where I don't get good reception on my iPhone, nor do I necessarily have a Internet connection to which to attach my Airport Express or a local Starbucks to get wifi reception.
Any recs of air cards that play nicely with Mac? Any gotcha's? (Verizon and Sprint are known to get reasonable reception where I'm going)?

Hi there Wayne Decoro,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
About Wireless Diagnostics
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5606
-Griff W.

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Sorry, but the Air Card cannot be used with the USB port on the AirPort Extreme because that port will only work with a hard drive and/or a printer.
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I'm not sure how to recover on the system that is currently broken -
though I suspect some form of remove/reinstall MS components should get
you back running again.
When you install the VPN client, and you select the dial-up option, it
basically tries to integrate the MS dial up networking system into VPN
menus. I don't think it really invents anything new there. If there
is something non-standard on the dial-up entries, it may be that the
VPN installation doesn't handle it properly. I don't know, because
I've not installed that component or used it in years.
What I would recommend is to not install the dial-up component on with
the VPN client. Just leave it off, make a usual dial-up connection,
and then launch the VPN client. The VPN dial-up component just
tries to manage all of that so you do it with less button clicks.
Craig Johnson
Novell Support Connection SysOp
*** For a current patch list, tips, handy files and books on
BorderManager, go to http://www.craigjconsulting.com ***

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First, thanks to all who responded to “Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger > Getting Online & Networking > Bridge to Verizon air card”
I’m sure that would have worked had I been more networking literate.
I now connect via new MacBook Pro & Verizon UM175VW USB air card & still unable to bridge from my old PowerBook G4 via my wireless LAN. If anyone out there is able to do this, please let me know how.
Now, the only way I can get online with the G4 is to plug the air card into it.
Thanks
Richard

Thanks Richard, I thought so but wanted to be certain.
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