Re: Wireless Web Connect, Morons Pinheads Poltroons wireless internet ricochet Novatel metricom

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From: H. Pylori
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 04:37

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"ddt" <ddt@ddt.ddt> wrote in message
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> File under: Wireless Web Connect:  Wireless Internet, Ricochet, Novatel,
> Metricom
>
> I think I just canceled my Ricochet wireless service with Wireless Web
> Connect. But you know what? I'm not sure.
>
> I started in September of  2000 with the stand alone Ricochet modem. It
> wasn't too useful because of its bulk, nor as fast as promised, but when I
> needed it, worked. Sometime around the new year, I saw and bought a
Novatel
> Merlin PC card at a Fry's Electronics. It was quite cool. I could stick it
> in my laptop, or my Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC and life was good... Until the
> card burned out.

I used one of these for a while...still have the card.  never burnt out on
me but the performance was so poor it was practically unusable.  The office
I work in never got decent reception and even when it was good, 19kbps can
be real slow.  The rest of your story is really unfortunate.  I hate that
game they play when you call back and one hand doesn't know what the other's
doing half the time.

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