Questions about MiFi(hot spots)
I will admit that I am clueless regarding data usage and how to gauge what I am using now on my landline based dslextreme.com or what it takes to look at RV.NET for say two hours a day and to check ou...
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I am speaking from a Canadian perspective, not sure if US companies are the same. I can check my data usage at home by logging in to my account on the internet provider's website and seeing what my data usage is. I can go back 6 months easily and I based my wifi needs on that data when we went to Alaska in 2016.
I bought an ATT UNLOCKED hotspot off the internet. Set it up with a tabletplan on Bell for Canada. The tablet plan is "ramped". Costs $5/month for the first 100MB then once that is surpassed up to 1 gig for ??, and then 5 gig for a total of $50 / month. Yes Canadian cell prices are outrageous, but this seemed to be the best of the bunch for travelling in the North.
When we got to Alaska, I went into an ATT store and got a sim card and a pay as you go data plan, that we used through Alaska and then renewed when we got to Washington on our way home across the States.
ATT has changed their plans and I now get 5 Gig of data on my pay as you go unlocked phone and we didn't top up the hotspot when we went to the US the last couple times. I can make my phone a hotspot and share data to the tablet and computers.
The big data eater is automatic updates. I found out that they chew lots of data and our usage spiked on a couple of days, so I set updates to manual and we don't have those spikes.
Like you I check this website (way too much somedays) and email and DW checks email and her favourite things and 5 gigs is okay until the updates kick in.
I think you might be better off checking at a phone company store, rather than a Best Buy. The ATT stores I have been in weren't busy, I was the only customer, and the employees were happy to have someone to talk to and explained everything I could ask about.
I bought an ATT UNLOCKED hotspot off the internet. Set it up with a tabletplan on Bell for Canada. The tablet plan is "ramped". Costs $5/month for the first 100MB then once that is surpassed up to 1 gig for ??, and then 5 gig for a total of $50 / month. Yes Canadian cell prices are outrageous, but this seemed to be the best of the bunch for travelling in the North.
When we got to Alaska, I went into an ATT store and got a sim card and a pay as you go data plan, that we used through Alaska and then renewed when we got to Washington on our way home across the States.
ATT has changed their plans and I now get 5 Gig of data on my pay as you go unlocked phone and we didn't top up the hotspot when we went to the US the last couple times. I can make my phone a hotspot and share data to the tablet and computers.
The big data eater is automatic updates. I found out that they chew lots of data and our usage spiked on a couple of days, so I set updates to manual and we don't have those spikes.
Like you I check this website (way too much somedays) and email and DW checks email and her favourite things and 5 gigs is okay until the updates kick in.
I think you might be better off checking at a phone company store, rather than a Best Buy. The ATT stores I have been in weren't busy, I was the only customer, and the employees were happy to have someone to talk to and explained everything I could ask about.
