Testing Sympatico broadband wireless

I just got the Sympatico broadband wireless modem to test today. It's pretty easy, you just plug in the power adapter to a power outlet and connect that to the modem, then you plug the ethernet cable from the modem to the computer. And voila, you are connected. You have to make sure that the modem gets a signal from the cellular network, there is a bunch of lights that track for a signal and then connect, just like with a regular high speed modem. I got 10 Mbps connection which Windows detected (although I highly doubt that I got near 10 Mbps, I didnt actually check the actual speed I was connecting at). I first blogged about this service back here. It's quite an interesting idea, have a broadband wireless access point using a cellular connection since cellular is more ubiquitous than Wi-Fi. In fact, why not include both a cellular broadband and Wi-Fi broadband connection in the modem (or Wi-Max)? Then, which ever network you are near to, you use that broadband signal. Ubiquitous wireless access, that's what we need.