another internet and cell phone question
I am still confused about obtaining internet, cell phone plans and downloading movies for our journey full time this winter. DH has a prepaid phone that needs to be replaced and I have a Droid mini w...
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Streaming movies and videos is sure to devour your data allotment pretty quickly.
If you get a SmartTV you should be able to stream wirelessly. Some (if not most) BluRay players can do this also.
At least Netflix lets you choose Standard Def instead of HD. AmazonPrime makes you stream in HD which uses ALOT more bandwidth. You can buy movies via Amazon, but it still eats into your data to download them.
Waiting for NetFlix to send movies to a mail forwarding service and then having to pay/wait for them to be sent wouldn't work for us. We get our mail about once a month on the road.
We use a pay-by-the-month JetPack for Internet (mostly e-mail, bill paying and web surfing). It's 3G or 4G so it has gotten a fairly usable signal everywhere except The Everglades. If we're not on the road and using it, we don't have to pay for it, which is nice.
If we have time for a movie, we rent at RedBox. Huge computer updates we do at a library. Our phones are just phones (calls and texting) and TV is whatever we get OTA. We don't miss having more than that. (I only insist that we are somewhere with a good TV signal for the SuperBowl.)
This is what works for us. Different strokes for different folks. It all depends on what you really need and what you don't.
(PS: You might want to ask more questions before signing up for that Verizon plan. It may be$100+ per month for 10 GB of data to share and then an additional $15 per line charge - meaning $15 for your phone, $15 more for your spouses phone and $15 more for the JetPack.)
If you get a SmartTV you should be able to stream wirelessly. Some (if not most) BluRay players can do this also.
At least Netflix lets you choose Standard Def instead of HD. AmazonPrime makes you stream in HD which uses ALOT more bandwidth. You can buy movies via Amazon, but it still eats into your data to download them.
Waiting for NetFlix to send movies to a mail forwarding service and then having to pay/wait for them to be sent wouldn't work for us. We get our mail about once a month on the road.
We use a pay-by-the-month JetPack for Internet (mostly e-mail, bill paying and web surfing). It's 3G or 4G so it has gotten a fairly usable signal everywhere except The Everglades. If we're not on the road and using it, we don't have to pay for it, which is nice.
If we have time for a movie, we rent at RedBox. Huge computer updates we do at a library. Our phones are just phones (calls and texting) and TV is whatever we get OTA. We don't miss having more than that. (I only insist that we are somewhere with a good TV signal for the SuperBowl.)
This is what works for us. Different strokes for different folks. It all depends on what you really need and what you don't.
(PS: You might want to ask more questions before signing up for that Verizon plan. It may be$100+ per month for 10 GB of data to share and then an additional $15 per line charge - meaning $15 for your phone, $15 more for your spouses phone and $15 more for the JetPack.)
