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Originally Posted by RLENT
Errr .... not quite - you use the WiFi on your computer to connect to the WiFi on the iPhone .... which itself is connected to the internet via the ATT's EDGE cellular network ..... and is functioning as a internet connection server to your laptop - over a local ad-hoc 802.x network - between your iPhone and your laptop.
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Well, when I said "unless you have a data plan to use with the phone..." it covers the EDGE cellular network, since that's a data plan. Not being intimate with the iPhone or AT&T's plans, I wasn't aware that the iPhone's plans included the data plan. The iPhone
becomes the Aircard. Right?
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Well .... I actually switched from Verizon to Cingular, now ATT because of all the problems we were having with dropped calls .... so go figure.
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Yeah, for some people T-Mobile is the best carrier. Of course, those people never leave the city.
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And we both know that Verizon ain't perfect right ? 
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hehe very true. A lot of it is phone specific, too. One phone doesn't drop calls, another one will. I keep up with the results of JD Power and Associates and a couple of industry watch dogs and their tracking of dropped calls and coverage areas, and Verizon does have the best coverage and fewest dropped calls, but, man they do have a few really problematic spots. But, I also know that they are more problematic with my phone than with other phones. I had to force my phone off the EVDO network and to CDMA-only to get the Georgetown problem fixed. (Yeah, it's working fine now. It rang when you called earlier, and didn't want to wake up hehe)