Unlimited streaming wifi??

doxiemom11 wrote:
Maybe you should rent movies from redbox for a buck and use the internet for e-mail, pay bills, occasional surfing. You can also rent movies from your local library - some are free, some are $1. There are much cheaper alternatives.

Exactly!!!!

We have plenty of DVD's that we use and find the streaming of videos and using data well...doesn't make sense.

To each their own....

Maybe you should rent movies from redbox for a buck and use the internet for e-mail, pay bills, occasional surfing. You can also rent movies from your local library - some are free, some are $1. There are much cheaper alternatives.

cmcwbl wrote:
All my stationary friends get unlimited wifi for streaming in their homes. However our mobile Verizon Mifi charges $10/month for each 2 GB. That allows about 2 movies, about $5/movie. It would cost a fortune, at that rate, to stream lots of things. Anybody know a wifi source that we can use for live streaming without spending a fortune?

Your stationary friends are stationary and get CABLE internet which can then be shared with a router (wirelessly) to the other devices in the home. No such option exists for us mobile users. You can travel from McDonald's to Starbuck's to.....whatever....and get a free wifi connection there, but if you want to have your own internet connection available when YOU want it and where YOU want it we are all stuck with cellular internet and the exact parameters you describe.
I use a Cradlepoint router to allow the addition of local WiFi networks on the rare occasion that they are available AND worth using but otherwise, you give up all streaming and use the internet for e-mail and basic surfing. Using the Millenicom option (now $90/month) extends your data to 20GB/month which would allow some streaming but nothing even close to what the fixed location users can do.

I've had the Millenicom MiFi for about a year now. You buy the MiFi from them (actually has Verizon stickers on it) and the system runs on the Verizon network. Price for 20 Gigs is $90 as of 1 May. It used to be $70. Still a pretty good deal I think.

The MiFi serves as a router for up to 10 wireless devices.

Tim

"All my stationary friends get unlimited wifi for streaming in their homes"....

unlimited broadband wireless ? or unlimited broadband via cable ?


Regards
Gemstone

Changing over to the MILLENICOM 20GB plan that uses the good VERIZON NETWORK is not too bad a deal. We also have the low GB VERIZON MIFI PLAN but only use it for checking emails, keeping in touch with the kids, and paying some bills on-line. The MILLENICOM used to cost around $80 a month but may have just recently gone up a few dollars. Mobile HOTSPOTS and Mobile INTERNET is becoming the way to go these days.

We would definitely look at the MILLENICOM NETWORK if we started to do some serious downstreaming. ALot of folks like the VERIZON JETPACK package as well for larger database plans.

We get by just fine now using the OTA BATWING antenna picking up the digital HDTV from the NATIONAL BROADCAST network being transmitted from the local towns where we camp. TV signals are full blown high def and are free to view...

Roy Ken