using gmc truck for internet hot spot
I currently have a 2015 GMC truck to tow our fiver. We are traveling to unknown areas soon. Not sure if we will be able to get wifi in all areas. I was wondering if anyone uses the vehicle internet th...
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ktosv wrote:DutchmenSport wrote:
you have to pay for a separate data plan for the vehicle.
If your cell provider is AT&T, depending on the service you have you should be able to pay like $10/month to add your vehicle as an additional device/line on shared data. If you don't have AT&T, then yes you are stuck paying for a seperate plan.
My experience with it has been pretty good. One of the areas we vacation has poor Verizon service (my smart phone) but has good AT&T service. I paid for one month of service to have wifi while we were in that area.
My kids also loved it as they could stream media while traveling. As ktmrfs stated, the range is fairly small. While traveling in two vehicles, you had to draft very close or be side by side for the second vehicle to access the wifi. I wasn't comfortable drafting at that distance towing our trailer, so the kids in the van had to do without wifi.
If you have ATT, yup, inexpensive to add it to your plan and share data. the downside is that as you travel you are stuck with ATT, and if your in an area w/o ATT coverage oops.
We have Verizon, so we can't add it to our plan, so we pay for 30 minutes talk time/month and 10GB data/yr, and use the car phone when driving, very convienent compared to a cell, (as long as we have coverage) and use the data when we are in a place that doesn't have Verizon/sprint (CDMA) coverage but has GSM (ATT etc.) coverage. STill have a few places we go with no cell coverage.
