Satellite Phone/Hotspot
My annual off-grid camping trip sure would be easier if I had a way to maintain some basic text or email communication with my family and company for emergencies. It seems the technology is becoming ...
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I have been using the VERIZON 2200 MIFI unit for several years and this gives me a good hotspot for up to five of my devices. This older unit is not good for downstreaming movies or HDTV but is excellent for checking in with kids, paying some bills, and some surfing of the internet. My VERIZON CELL PHONE is the older flip type and doesn't support hotspots. Hve recent updated things here including the VERIZON MIFI box and now have the VERIZON MIFI6620L that suppports higher speed and data plan but I haven't been able to get out alot yet to really use it.
I like having my own SECURE HOTSPOT and the Verizon MIFI units do very well having a secure hotspot.
I have a WILSON CRADLE setup in my POPUP that holds my VERIZON MIFI unit. This gives me a good 200 feet or so around my POPUP a secure HOTSPOT connection for my tablets and other devices. The WILSON Cradle has a small antenna mounted on the outside of my POPUP...
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SECURE meaning I am the only one that can log into and use the MIFI box...
The newer CELLPHONEs have this feature as well... My GIBBS FLIP PHONE doesn't support that haha...
The MIFI box is small and fits your shirt pocket if you are doing the trails or sitting on the beach somewhere watching the fish jump...
The VERIZON CELLPHONE has been excellent for me in my off-grid camping... They seem to have the best cell phone coverage of all of the CELLPHONE plans. Being a DOD COntractor in my working days VERIZON was always the Internet of choice running the roads working on Radar sites way out in the woods in the US... Most of the other CELLPHONE carriers seem to only be in the heavy population areas or following the Interstate highway. This is slowly changing however...
I have family buried in GOBER TX and this is pretty much a NO CELLPHONE zone for anyone hehe... I always had to pull off a GREEN ACRES routine and climb a telephone pole to use my cellphone hehe...
Even here in Virginia VERIZON is the only plan I can use here in KING GEORGE where I live. The other big guys like SPRINT etc just doesn't do well here...
Also depending on WIFI from Camp Grounds never worked out for me as well... Sometimes it was great but most of the time it gets overloaded from the many users and just doesn't work out. It is not a secure connection as well...
Roy Ken
I like having my own SECURE HOTSPOT and the Verizon MIFI units do very well having a secure hotspot.
I have a WILSON CRADLE setup in my POPUP that holds my VERIZON MIFI unit. This gives me a good 200 feet or so around my POPUP a secure HOTSPOT connection for my tablets and other devices. The WILSON Cradle has a small antenna mounted on the outside of my POPUP...
Google image
SECURE meaning I am the only one that can log into and use the MIFI box...
The newer CELLPHONEs have this feature as well... My GIBBS FLIP PHONE doesn't support that haha...
The MIFI box is small and fits your shirt pocket if you are doing the trails or sitting on the beach somewhere watching the fish jump...
The VERIZON CELLPHONE has been excellent for me in my off-grid camping... They seem to have the best cell phone coverage of all of the CELLPHONE plans. Being a DOD COntractor in my working days VERIZON was always the Internet of choice running the roads working on Radar sites way out in the woods in the US... Most of the other CELLPHONE carriers seem to only be in the heavy population areas or following the Interstate highway. This is slowly changing however...
I have family buried in GOBER TX and this is pretty much a NO CELLPHONE zone for anyone hehe... I always had to pull off a GREEN ACRES routine and climb a telephone pole to use my cellphone hehe...
Even here in Virginia VERIZON is the only plan I can use here in KING GEORGE where I live. The other big guys like SPRINT etc just doesn't do well here...
Also depending on WIFI from Camp Grounds never worked out for me as well... Sometimes it was great but most of the time it gets overloaded from the many users and just doesn't work out. It is not a secure connection as well...
Roy Ken
