For those who never had the unlimited verizon plan?

rerod wrote:
What did you do? Paid verizon for extra data to watch movies while camping?

Gave up and stored movies on a hard drive or dvd's?

Bought a satellite internet dish and plan?

I'm considering some much needed hardware up grades and would like some tips and feed back on what data plans? (not sure why I asked that because verizon coverage is needed) or gear your using to keep entertained when is raining or night while camping.

Thanks

Been there done that with Verizon, I think I had the max 20 gig plan, was doing OK but one month I used it to much and the extra cost over top of normal bill was $210.00, I lowered the plan down to 8 gig just for cell phone use "4 cell phones in family" and don't plan on Version for my wifi or streaming movies ever again.

to answer the original question

excess addon data is normally $10 per gig

exceed your allowance and a $10 charge and extra gig is tacked onto your bill

1 hour SD tv about 300MB
2 hour sd movie about 600MB

1 hour of HD is about 1 gig
so a two hour HD movie costs you 2gig, $10 per gig for going over your allowance

MOST people avoid streaming movies if they a have a 2~3 gig allowance

No movies, no TV in the mountains. No signal. We do however have a UNO game, a deck of cards, and a Yatizie game. Along with a Battleship game. Isn't that what camping is for?
Can watch TV at home.

$1-2 bucks for RedBox movies. Far less then streaming on cell.

No need to try and provide streaming etc. while out camping......save that for when at home.
Ain't nothing wrong with taking a few DVDs for late night (or rained out) viewing.



Had 2 1985 V-Maxs.......both AMETHYST and a 1995 in Fire Red.
Loved those bikes!!!!!!!!

I use satellite TV for that kind of TV watching in conjunction with the OTA TV antenna. Lots of programming also saved on my DVR for times when there's nothing worth watching on TV.
I use the internet for internet connections but would never use it to stream much of anything.

tomkaren13 wrote:
When we can't sit outside. We have DVD's Don't care if current or popular as we would rather be outside.

Wow..

Straight talk hotspot for wifi / Pandora
Don't stream movies
Use TV on antennae / cable if available for news and network shows
Redbox for movies on occasion
Straight talk phones / Pandora
Nexus for books
Leave my direct tv at home

When we can't sit outside. We have DVD's. Pick up ones at garage sales or Flea market. Don't care if current or popular as we would rather be outside.

Thats the way we end our busy camping day when camping off the power grid.... usually starts out on the patio under the awning. ALways have a bon-fire going and sit out watching the steaks on the grill...

After it gets dark outside we usually watch the news and catch a couple of network shows NCIS etc...

Finally gave up on sat/cable TV when camping off the power grid. Getting the BROADCAST CHANNELS TV over the air using our Batwing antenna from the local towns is fine with us.

We occasionally do the DVD scene. Camping for us is having fun and enjoying the outdoors and sitting around the bon-fire listening to the night sounds until its time to go inside. Then we watch a couple of TV Network shows and watch the local area news and weather - check the emails and check-in with the kids - then go to bed...

Roy and Carolyn...