Cellular Hotspot

I have an older hotspot that stays in the Motor Home. It is on a prepay plan, so the only timeit is used is when e are out on the road. I just pay for however amount of Gigs, and add more if needed. When that expires or is used up. the box just stays there waiting for the next time.

For less time, I just turn on the hotspot on my phone, and use that. it works very well, but If I ned to go somewhere, no one can use it at the MH till I get back.

I have a grandfathered AT&T $20/mo hotspot plan with unlimited data, and a Visible (a Verizon company) phone with unlimited talk, text, and data including tethering and a hotspot feature. The Visible plan is $40/mo, but they also have a "Party Pay" feature that lets you join with up to three other people, even complete strangers, that can bring your cost down to $25/mo. Each member of the party gets their own account and bill, and only their first name and the last four digits of their phone number are visible to the other members. Between the two plans, we've not been anywhere lately where we didn't have service at streaming speeds from one or the other.

Hi Phil,

This one looks interesting, too.

https://www.unlimitedinternetprovider.com/

pianotuna wrote:
Hi Phil,

This one looks interesting, too.

https://www.unlimitedinternetprovider.com/

This looks like a scam to me. Be careful.

Why does it look like a scam?

They use a hotspot that's been hacked to appear as a phone or tablet to AT&T's system. That lets them activate it using a plan intended for phones and tablets in violation of the TOS. It'll work as long as AT&T doesn't catch on and shut them down.

Hi Dutch,

How does one find out this information?

people that were smart enough to get the unlimited plans... awesome.

We're limited to 10G hotspot per phone, or a slow down that is unworkable. Unlimited streaming, but that can be a PITA. This allows me to set the TV to this wifi name and password, along with the android unit. Bit pricey, but it also solves my problem at the park model. Their shared access is only 5M, I tested it a couple of times very early in the morning. By 9am on a even a slow weekend, forget it, it's toast.

I had this ingenious idea of getting an external antenna for increased service coverage.

1st up, netgear factory piece ordered from amazon. It came in a package, with an interesting tag, "demo unit". It did absolutely nothing, nada... back to amazon it went.

2nd, two whip antennas. Not only did it not improve signal strength, speed test showed a 20% drop in data transfer speed.

Talked to the smartest electrical engineer I know, he said even with the short (12") coax, the signal loss on that cable may overcome any advantage I might get out of the antenna.