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 with our telephone number we would love to keep. Verizon has a plan currently that runs out July 1 with 10 gigs a month. I stopped in yesterday to be educated and am still confused. If I sign up for this plan and buy a Verizon jetpack for my soon to buy laptop can I download and stream Netflix movies about one per week? Is this considered wireless or will I have to have a usb to plug into the soon to buy TV? or watch the movies on my laptop?Should we consider bluetooth which I am not very familiar with?I'm sure the phone plan will be enough minutes and texts as we are pretty low use.Any advice and guidance would be so appreciated. I have read everything on Technomadia and JackMayer and appreciate the guidance so much. Guess I'm confused over the which comes first part and how it all plays together.Thank you for any advice.

You don't say where you are going this winter. If it isn't in a 4G service area (i.e. a larger city), then I would abandon the idea of downloading even one movie a week. You can still sign up with Netflix to receive DVD's in the mail sent to your campground which in my personal opinion would be better. It would give you more options of movies and no stress of worrying if you are going to exceed your data plan limits. I have found that downloading a one hour TV program (which is really about 40 minutes of viewing without commercials) is about one GIG of data usage.

2chiefsRus wrote:You don't say where you are going this winter. If it isn't in a 4G service area (i.e. a larger city), then I would abandon the idea of downloading even one movie a week. You can still sign up with Netflix to receive DVD's in the mail sent to your campground which in my personal opinion would be better. It would give you more options of movies and no stress of worrying if you are going to exceed your data plan limits. I have found that downloading a one hour TV program (which is really about 40 minutes of viewing without commercials) is about one GIG of data usage.Thank you! Didn't think of the mail forwarding Netflix to the CG! Awesome idea. We have not yet decided on where we will winter, but are thinking near Ocala and points west. We are stopping in VA for 2-3 weeks first.So the streaming idea isn't a good one? Would a better idea be to get satellite TV? I have seen topics on this.

Streaming movies without a large data plan in a reliable service area will be frustrating. I don't watch a lot of movies but can tell you that internet on the road is a LOT different than high speed internet in a sticks and bricks home.If you are planning to stay in one place for a couple months or more, just change your shipping address with Netflix to the campground and keep your billing address the same as your credit card billing address.

sorry for the multiple posts. hitting bumps while we are driving down the road. What works for us, is we each have a smart phone that we use as a Hot Spot. We can wirelessly connect our laptops to the Hotstop for internet access for the laptops. We discontinued using a jetpack when we got the smart phones. We also have two DirecTV DVRs that we use for our televisions. Our roof mounted in motion dome sat dish went out about a year ago so we are back to using the basic 18 inch round sat dish wired with coxial cable to the DVRs. We are content with standard definition reception but many NEED to have High Def. If you go with the smart phone option and find that you don't like using it as a hot spot, Verizon will be happy to sell you a jetpack later.....

downloading and streamimg are not exactly the same thingon netflix it is streamed.. you can only watch while connected to the internetwatch it twice..use twice the dataAmazon has downloading and streamingstreaming is a subscription, just like netflixbut if you BUY a movie you can DL to the PC and watch it as often as you want, its yours just like buying a disc, except its limited to only (2) devicesin netflix you can adjust the qualityuse a lower standard def quality and you can watch more video/movies with your 10-gig

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2chiefsRus
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Jun 27, 2015
Streaming movies without a large data plan in a reliable service area will be frustrating. I don't watch a lot of movies but can tell you that internet on the road is a LOT different than high speed internet in a sticks and bricks home.

If you are planning to stay in one place for a couple months or more, just change your shipping address with Netflix to the campground and keep your billing address the same as your credit card billing address.
AlmostBoatless
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Jun 27, 2015
2chiefsRus wrote:
You don't say where you are going this winter. If it isn't in a 4G service area (i.e. a larger city), then I would abandon the idea of downloading even one movie a week. You can still sign up with Netflix to receive DVD's in the mail sent to your campground which in my personal opinion would be better. It would give you more options of movies and no stress of worrying if you are going to exceed your data plan limits. I have found that downloading a one hour TV program (which is really about 40 minutes of viewing without commercials) is about one GIG of data usage.

Thank you! Didn't think of the mail forwarding Netflix to the CG! Awesome idea.

We have not yet decided on where we will winter, but are thinking near Ocala and points west. We are stopping in VA for 2-3 weeks first.

So the streaming idea isn't a good one? Would a better idea be to get satellite TV? I have seen topics on this.
2chiefsRus
Explorer
Jun 27, 2015
You don't say where you are going this winter. If it isn't in a 4G service area (i.e. a larger city), then I would abandon the idea of downloading even one movie a week. You can still sign up with Netflix to receive DVD's in the mail sent to your campground which in my personal opinion would be better. It would give you more options of movies and no stress of worrying if you are going to exceed your data plan limits. I have found that downloading a one hour TV program (which is really about 40 minutes of viewing without commercials) is about one GIG of data usage.

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