We recently (2 weeks ago) sold our house and find ourselves in our RV so I guess we are full timing. I'm looking for recommendations on what Verizon data plan to use. Here's our deal: * 2 of us in a motorhome with 2 iPads, 2iPhones and 2 Air laptops. * Using iPhone hotspot as a router with Sleek and antenna when necessary.* Subscribe to online NYTimes and Wash Post.* Family blogging * Usual email, texting and browsing.* iPhone as a GPS occasionally.* No video streaming (watch local news & DVDs).When we were doing regular RVing (had a home to return to) we maintained a 6 gig plan and it worked out OK. We upped it to 10 gigs now but don't have enough experience to know if that's enough. Just lookin' for a little advice. jor

10 gig ok as long as you don't video stream anything!

We use a 10 gig plan with 3 phones and 2 tablets and never go over. Usually stay around 7-8 gigs per month. Where we live no internet is available except by cell or satellite.

Just as a data point. When we camped for a week, my wife watched netflix to stream her shows/movies a fair amount. She was using about 1.5G per day.I agree with these folks. If your not streaming movies/videos very much, then 10Gig should be fine.

So far it sounds as though 10 gigs will do the trick. Thanks.Where we live no internet is available except by cell or satellite. Regarding this statement, are you using your cell phone for internet access at home? This is something we were thinking about too as we don't know where we'll eventually end up. Thanks.jor

We had 10 GB for years. Last year I bumped up to 15 GB. We now use right at 15 GB.I think you use what you have.

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joebedford
Nomad II
Jul 14, 2015
We run about 80GB per month but that's because our cats like to stream cat porn :)
Hoosier_Cruiser
Explorer
Jul 16, 2015
We have a 15 GB plan with AT&T that they doubled to 30 GB shared data at no added charge. I don't know if they are still making that offer. We use two laptops and two iPhones. The iPhones are our only internet connection. If you have good signal, and we do almost everywhere except in our house, we have not had problems. On the road we have not had any problems if cellular service is present.
Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Jul 16, 2015
No longer avail. When AT&T made that offer Verizon made a similar option and I snapped up a 15GB deal which disappeared 30 days later. There will likely be others in the future but don't hesitate or you will miss it.
1775
Explorer
Jul 17, 2015
Ten gigs should be plenty but it depends on what you plan to do with it. Stream video 0 that it is good for ten hours of video and it is used up. You should be able to browse the web, send email, maybe stream a little music, and even use Voice over Internet with ten gigs per month for two. You can always increase it if you find that you need more.
mich800
Explorer
Jul 17, 2015
With what you described 10 should be fine. If you have kids though it does not take long to eat up data if you are not paying attention. The only other thing I would add is maybe look into a Verizon hot spot. I don't think you can use your iphone for calls when it is in hotspot mode if that is important to you. At least that was my understanding when I was researching it a month ago.
sato4000
Explorer
Jul 17, 2015
I went on two trips totaling 5 days in July. I used 45GB of data. We do have 3 kids and they were streaming netflix and movies from my home pc network, as well as using a roku, 3 tablets and a laptop, and listening to pandora.

At one point we were watching our data usage on the hotspot and it was climbing like a meter on a gas pump. That is the most data I've ever used in such a short time though. The kids had two of their friends so maybe that helped. We have 3 mobile hotspots though all with unlimited data. Usually I use 10-15 gb of data for 2-3 days.
joraz
Explorer
Jul 17, 2015
Thanks to all. We're going to go with the 10 gigs for now and see what happens. We can always kick it up later. I hope we never get up into Sato's data territory; I'd have to go back to work!
jor
cpaulsen
Explorer
Jul 18, 2015
We had 10 gigs for a long time and went over a couple of times.....so I increased it to 15. Then Verizon had come out last year with the double data offer so I went to 30 gigs for the same price. We run 2 laptops...2 iPhones...a kindle and an Ipad.Just make sure you are not running a lot of stuff on you phones unless you need them.....and also turn off auto updates and go with "ask me" when to install.
luvlabs
Explorer
Jul 18, 2015
When we were fulltime, we used a 20 gb/month plan (Millenicom). When they folded, we went to a 30 gb/month Verizon plan and pretty much used it all every month - and never streamed anything.

We found that getting your software updated and your GPS updated were really the big users. If you are not fulltime and can do those at home, your data use will be lower.

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