Sprint AirCard 595 by Sierra Wireless

Bust through speed limits on the road with the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595, the fastest cellular wireless PC card available today. I tested the AirCard 595 in three Connecticut towns against the competing Novatel S720 PC Card. Like all of Sprint's PC Cards, the AirCard 595 uses Sprint's Connection Manager software on Windows XP PCs. You open a connection using Sprint's Connection Manager, a simple software panel. Rev A downloads averaged 1.07 Mbps, with uploads averaging 328 Kbps. In Rev 0 coverage areas, the AirCard 595 downloads averaged 903 Kbps, about 50 Kbps faster than the S720 and S620, with 219-ms latency. The Novatel S720 did perform slightly faster on uploads in Rev 0 coverage areas, averaging 347.7 Kbps to the Sierra AirCard 595's 327.6 Kbps.
Setting up a mobile broadband system is quite easy. Once you have the card and the account, for the most part you just need to install Sprint’s PCS Connection Manager Software and enter in your account
information. The Panasonic W5 that I was using has on-board Verizon mobile broadband so I had to disable this within the Device Manager because the connection manager can only work with one WWAN card at a time. It was generally able to get download speeds of about 800-900 Kbps under the right conditions and upload speeds of 100-150 Kbps (with Rev 0 coverage). When making your decision for mobile connectivity, the AirCard 595 could be a great choice.

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