Comments on: First Look: AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver 3G Adapter

By: Choosing a Broadband Card (Verizon or Sprint)

Choosing a Broadband Card (Verizon or Sprint) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:28:08 +0000

[...] do know my card wasn’t very useful. Fast forward a few months, and Kevin Tofel loaned me his Quicksilver review card while at CES. In Vegas, the card was unusable. Granted, the cell networks were probably saturated, [...]

By: The Blogging Gear of CES

The Blogging Gear of CES — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:51:49 +0000

[...] my third CES with this very same unit. For Internet connectivity, Kevin Tofel had loaned me an AT&T 3G card he has for review… However, I wasn’t having very good luck with it and am now dependent on the [...]

By: Xinirnix

Xinirnix — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:20:32 +0000

“Like any true geek, I promptly removed the cover to have a look. Here you can see that there’s connector pin on the cover that fits into the card, but it doesn’t touch the antenna jack so it doesn’t look to add signal strength to the card. A quick test of the adapter without the cover ought to confirm.”

Wrong: the antenna jack on the board is for external testing. You can remove the cover and plug an external antenna on the antenna jack.

The connector pin makes a connection to the round coper circle. Inside the cover there is the tuned antenna.

So I guess you will have better results when using the cover. When further away from base stations you will see differences in speed or drops.

Xin

By: Dear AT&T - Why is a modem locked??

Dear AT&T - Why is a modem locked?? — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:57 +0000

[...] Kevin Tofel brought a new 3G modem to my attention today and I got very excited about the possibilities as it supports Tri-band HSDPA (850, 1900 and 2100) which would work in my global travels. [...]

By: jonathan greene

jonathan greene — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:21:01 +0000

just went to an AT&T store with money in hand only to discover that this device is locked. Not sure why it needs to be with a contract as part of the deal, but it just cost them a sale. I can’t afford to let AT&T rob me in roaming charges when traveling overseas.

By: Swedish Tech Report » jkOnTheRun shows us the new AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver 3G Adapter

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:29:45 +0000

[...] Check it out over at jkOnTheRun. [...]

By: atmasphere

atmasphere — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:03:15 +0000

according to the helpful agent on the phone this can be used with other carriers without issue – so traveling internationally you would not have to pay ATT’s ridiculous roaming rates

By: atmasphere

atmasphere — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:47:41 +0000

actually just read the details on the ATT page … seems it supports 850/1900/2100 MHz for 3G which is awesome. the only real question is whether you have to roam or whether you can just switch SIM cards

By: MrD1sturbed

MrD1sturbed — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:45:18 +0000

Kevin, you should enjoy the quicksilver as it is a very fast 3.6mbps 3G device. However AT&T does have a device that is very similar to your 727 which is the AT&T Mercury (or Sierra Wireless C885) which does have the built in memory card slot. I have used both devices and much prefer the Mercury if for nothing more than the added convenience of the microSD slot. Good luck with it, can’t wait to see how it fares.

By: atmasphere

atmasphere — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:31:23 +0000

when you say roaming, would you be locked into actually roaming or do you think you could just swap the SIM card for a local one and still get 3G in Europe? I’ve been looking for a modem and this seems like a good potential piece of kit. the Novatel Wireless Ovation MC950D is the one I just noticed that does world band 3G