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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GMandJM wrote:
10GB is a significant chunk of data and it's usually more than we need in a normal month. If/when there's anything left at the end of a cycle, we find something to stream.
We use a JetPack from Verizon. (Sierra Wireless brand, I think?). It defaults to 4G (Fourth Generation) signal if available. If that isn't available, it switches to 3G (slower) and it even went to 1X (1xrtt) when we were parked in the back loop of Myakka.
(Usable but snail-slow.)
The nice thing about pre-paid is never getting hit with overages or having to watch your usage so you don't go over. Last winter, at the end of a cycle, we streamed episodes of "Justified" and when our data ran out, it cut off Tim Olyphant mid-sentence.
Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't offer much choice in pre-paid data plans.
$90 for 10GB (more than enough for us in a 30-day cycle);
$60 for 3GB (might be enough, but for another $30 you get 6GB more) and
$15 for 250MB (great if you only need it for an hour or two, I suppose)
You can chose a plan and change plans after that cycle. We do NOT do automatic reactivation at the end of a cycle. Just a personal preference (or maybe it's me having trust issues, who knows )
As for our OTA antenna, it works fairly well. It's one of those omni-directional ones with a remote (sorry, can't think of the brand) that alot of coaches have. You're right - it depends on where we're parked. Near Orlando we got a gazillion channels. In The Everglades we got one Spanish language religious channel.
You have lots of options. The hardest part is figuring out what you really want.
10GB is a significant chunk of data and it's usually more than we need in a normal month. If/when there's anything left at the end of a cycle, we find something to stream.
We use a JetPack from Verizon. (Sierra Wireless brand, I think?). It defaults to 4G (Fourth Generation) signal if available. If that isn't available, it switches to 3G (slower) and it even went to 1X (1xrtt) when we were parked in the back loop of Myakka.
(Usable but snail-slow.)
The nice thing about pre-paid is never getting hit with overages or having to watch your usage so you don't go over. Last winter, at the end of a cycle, we streamed episodes of "Justified" and when our data ran out, it cut off Tim Olyphant mid-sentence.
Unfortunately, Verizon doesn't offer much choice in pre-paid data plans.
$90 for 10GB (more than enough for us in a 30-day cycle);
$60 for 3GB (might be enough, but for another $30 you get 6GB more) and
$15 for 250MB (great if you only need it for an hour or two, I suppose)
You can chose a plan and change plans after that cycle. We do NOT do automatic reactivation at the end of a cycle. Just a personal preference (or maybe it's me having trust issues, who knows )
As for our OTA antenna, it works fairly well. It's one of those omni-directional ones with a remote (sorry, can't think of the brand) that alot of coaches have. You're right - it depends on where we're parked. Near Orlando we got a gazillion channels. In The Everglades we got one Spanish language religious channel.
You have lots of options. The hardest part is figuring out what you really want.
