i can download e-mails while driving, and then, when i'm stopped and it's safe to do so, read through them. also, my passenger can go onto google and look up a restaurant we want to go to, get the number, and call for reservations, etc.

for me the cost is negligible. i use the mobile broadband as my only internet access. So I just bring the card with me in my car.

RE: MAC address (or other security) it's not about bypassing any security, or any of that. It's more about the fact that you have to go stop somewhere and sit outside the place, to get your weather updates, etc. Also my client just happened to get new equipment and hadn't gone through their security set-up anyways.

I actually only pay $15/month for it (employee discount!) but after I leave this company, I will gladly pay $60/for the access. This is the competing rate for other connections, and I get speeds like this:



This is an average speed, most of the time I get around this number.

My whole point with the thread is, how do you guys do it? Go sit in front of coffee shops when you need to update anything?

Oh, and you can get dictation software (TTS) to read the email to you, or web pages, etc. The situation above would have been a perfect situation. I could have had my e-mail in the background, downloading new messages, and when I stopped, I could have just gone through my front end to the email and made sure I was at the right place and time.