Originally Posted by DMSFCA
<snip>- It doesn't give instant gratification. You fire up your computer (I use it on a Thinkpad X31), plug in the card and fire up the Cingular Communications Manager and it takes a good _4_ minutes before you are ready to connect. You can't just whip open your laptop from hibernate and then decide to connect to work really quick and exchange email. The 4 minute wait is painful and is mentioned in the help file that this can often be the case. I've never had it take less than about 3 minutes before it says "ready to connect" even in prime 3G territory with a really strong full-bar signal. I'm not sure what it is doing during this time, but it is kind of like when you turn on your cell phone and it takes a bit to find a carrier/signal, except it takes a looong time.
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Doug,
Have your card checked out and also have Cingular ensure the SIM is provisioned properly. In the past two weeks I've used my card in Houston, Austin, Corpus Christi, Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the longest I've taken to connect is 90 seconds. It's also only ever that long the first time I'm firing up the card in a 'new' market. Thereafter it seems to be much faster.