We’re way up north now further north than I originally thought… close to Lake Superior. We settled into the cabin and found that all of my phones and PC cards barely registered onto the local provider. Now I am fine without voice service, I don’t talk to people… it’s too intimate. I thought I would be happy with one bar for text messaging, but no.

Long story short I juggled my sim cards and now I’m able to connect to GPRS services by positioning a phone towards a window. Though I get 40kbps, I think I’m hogging the bandwith for the entire area. My voice phone and text messaging handset no longer register on the network, but it’s all worth it to check email accounts with now email and stare at a blank browser window.