Verizon Wireless Hotspots?
Hi, I am looking for some advice on wireless hot spots. We are going to try living out of our 5th wheel and plan to use a streaming video service through the internet. I am assuming that an actual ...
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No advantage to a hotspot over a phone.
Verizon's unlimited data will throttle you back when you are in a heavy-data-traffic area and you are over something like 20GB.
The hotspot is just another device on your plan. There will be a device fee for it, $10 or $20. If you are streaming video, you need unlimited data anyway, so no point in having multiple plans.
In your shoes, I would just buy or keep an older dedicated phone for data streaming, for convenience. Then if a phone gets lost/stolen/broken, you can use the older phone instead of being without.
Verizon's unlimited data will throttle you back when you are in a heavy-data-traffic area and you are over something like 20GB.
The hotspot is just another device on your plan. There will be a device fee for it, $10 or $20. If you are streaming video, you need unlimited data anyway, so no point in having multiple plans.
In your shoes, I would just buy or keep an older dedicated phone for data streaming, for convenience. Then if a phone gets lost/stolen/broken, you can use the older phone instead of being without.
