CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS
CELL PHONE INTERNET ACCESS This is designed to explain the basic approach to using your cell phone with your computer to connect to the internet. It is not intended to be an in depth coverage of t...
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jack o lantern wrote:
OK, haven't seen any new posts for several months so maybe lots of new things now. My husband and I are now going on the road and need traveling internet. We have old cells with no current data programs with At&t but willing to do whatever we need to, to get mobile internet and the best cell service for east to west, to Alaska and back cell service. Please make this simple. What cell service was found to be best across the U.S.in general or consider internet service also? I'll take whatever advice you can give or send me to someone who can help me. Thanks, John and LInda
Verizon Wireless is probably the best for coverage. I was a full timer for 9 years and I can't tell you how many times I had cell service for voice and data when my near neighbors in the RV park with other companies had useless phones. I was getting on line with my Verizon phone right next door to a lady in a coach with a brand new AT&T air card who could not.
I now am a part timer and I still use Verizon. Now I have an Android phone and I use PDA Net to tether the phone to the netbook while in the RV. Verizon has a service for $20 per month that will let you do the same, but PDA Net and Easy Tether,apps do it for free without Verizon knowing about it (read that as FREE). PDA Net's latest version even has a setting to "cloak" your usage from the cell provider.
I strongly suggest you sign up to subscribe to InternetBySmartphone and/or InternetByCellphone Yahoo! groups. You will find a lot of information there that should be helpful.
BTW, I love my Android phone. The apps are awesome for RVing. I have a free one for Passport America campgrounds and a 99 cent one that gives me more information than I need to know about rest areas on the Interstates, including which ones have free WiFi. There are also ones for gas prices and Androids come with Google's navigation which is pretty darned good. The ability to search an attraction on the internet on my smartphone as we wander down the highways and byways is just plain awesome!
