Verizon Wireless PC5750 EVDO Rev A PC?Card
Posted by adminMar 28
- BroadbandAccess and NationalAccess high speed wireless data access of up to 2.4 Mbps
- With the PC5750 and included VZAccess Manager software, you can connect to corporate applications, email, instant messaging and the Internet
- High performance, hinged antenna for increased speed and coverage
- External antenna connector to boost signal strength and improve network connectivity in fringe areas
- Type II PCMCIA 32-bit CardBus interface (3.3V) for lower power consumption
Product Description
This latest addition to our PC Card line-up operates on our broadband network with typical download speeds of 450-800 kbps and uploads speeds of 300-400 kbps. With the PC5750 and VZAccess Manager, you can connect to corporate applications, email, instant messaging and the Internet. This PC Card also comes with a high performance hinged antenna and an external antenna connector to boost signal strength and improve network connectivity in fringe areas. Windows Vista
I live in the Midwest. I “upgraded” from the 1xRT Serria card to this card to get the higher speed data rates. I travel a lot in my job and have yet to see anything greater than the 1xRT speeds I had with the last card. I have contacted Verizon in the past and they are not helpful.. All they are interested in is getting you to extend your contract. My advice is to go with the Sprint service, my coworkers seem to have good luck with them.
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased the Verizon pc air card and used the card for 1 year. The speed was very slow at best. I paid for broadband access but the majority of the time I was on the slower national access. I recently had problems where I could not stay connected for more than 10 minutes before being disconnected. After 4 days of not being able to connect to the internet I had to go out and buy a Novatel pc card. I am a stock trader and can not afford to be down for 4 or more days. The people at Verizon were absolute jerks. All I asked for was the service they said they would provide. Instead I got no service and a $175 cancellation fee.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve own a Verizon data card for over a year now and the connection speed is becoming extremely slow. I tested everywhere including in house, on the road, airport etc. The avg download is about 400K and upload 140K. These are significantly slower than what I was promised at the store and the results of my tests when I first bought it (800K/400K).
I called Verizon. The tech support guy was very rude and basically said this speed is normal and “broadband”. He also tried to come up with excuses such as you are indoor although he had to agree that my signal strength was good. He also said as long as you could connect, you couldn’t argue because there was no promise of the speed on the contract. (So basically even if your speed was 1K, they wouldn’t see a problem with it.)
My conclusion, I will never use Verizon again.
Rating: 1 / 5
I recently purchased the PC5750 to replace my PC5740. While being sold on the specs by the local salesman, i was expecting it to be much faster than the previous model. In my home in Key West, Florida i noticed a slight boost in performance, but not nearly as much as the commissioned salesman had sold me on. But to me the defining quality feature that the PC5750 has vrs the PC5740 is the external antenna jack “not the flip up antenna” that i am using in order to amplify the signal and pull much more bandwidth than the previous model. So in short the card it’s self is only slightly better than the previous models but when boosted by a separate external antenna, it is very impressive.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this card for the same reason others did – to upgrade from the PC5740, which has been fantastically reliable but could be faster. Unfortunately, the unit kept losing the signal – in areas that that 5740 handled with ease (for a while I was commuting from RI to NJ on the train, so it was a great apples-to-apples test). Try as I might and with Verizon support (they mostly suggested I do the same things I’d already tried), I simply could not get it to hold the signal, and getting the signal back was a buggy, bothersome process. So I gave up and went back to my 5740, which works even when traveling by train through the Great Swamp in RI and below ground in Penn Station. I will switch to an faster card when I am convinced I can get the reliability of the 5740 at a faster speed.
Rating: 1 / 5