Safe WiFi Hotspot

[margaretmahlum]

Looking to be on the road for a few months at a time and need to have access to a safe, secure WiFi to handle financial transactions, campground bookings etc. via the internet using my laptop and smartphone. I wonder what others have found to be the most cost effective way to accomplish this and stay connected while traveling the roads in an RV.

I am fairly new to the RV Forum. So far I have had good responses to my posts and I really do appreciate the help.

[RoyB]

ANGRYBERT - I would like more info on how that works... On my 2010 F150 I can use bluetooth and sync up with my cellphone and be a hotspot but never knew you can do this without a cell phone involved.

Roy Ken

[margaretmahlum]

I agree that using any of the campground's free wifi is a bad idea. Thank you so much for the information Roy.

[pianotuna]

Hi,

Which company provides that?

AngryBert-63 wrote:
Our truck is a wifi hotspot... $35 a month for 3G, unlimited, and it's always available.

We don't have cellphones.

[RoyB]

My VERIZON network even works in GOBER TX.... haha...

Roy Ken

[Winnebago_Bob]

Our truck is a wifi hotspot... $35 a month for 3G, unlimited, and it's always available.

We don't have cellphones.

[margaretmahlum]

I have Verizon wireless as my cell provider. When we traveled up and down the east coast a few years ago the Verizon service was good though we didn't need to be on the internet very much at all then.

[RoyB]

We have found the VERIZON TOWERs to give us the best over-all coverage.

Alot of users are using the VERIZON MIFI DATAPLAN and using the largest amount of DATA they can afford.

We are grandfarthered in with a older 3GB dataplan and that works great for us for checking in with the kids, paying some bills, and doing some surfing of the internet. This does not allow us to downstream any HDTV or movies as those will eat up data big time. Rule of thumb is around 1GB per hour of use.

We get by just fine using the OTA digital HDTV signals from the local towns using the free to the public National Broadcast network with our crankup BATWING UHF antenna...

The VERIZON MIFI JETPACK is very popular hotspot network. This allows you to be able to be secure and hookup to several of your WIFI ENABLED devices at the same time.

We gave up on trying to use the unsecure WIFI HOTSPOTs are the various places and what the campgrounds offers for free WIFI hookup is almost a joke. Might be good at first but as soon an the campground starts to fill up and everyone getting on the internet at the same we would start having serious trouble staying connected.

Thats when we decided to go with the VERIZON NETWORK SECURE MIFI units.

Others do it different I'm sure but this is what works good for us...

I would plan on around $50-$60 a month which can be turned off when not on the road if you like...

Roy Ken

[outdoorlovers]

We use our smartphone as a hotspot if nothing else is available. It is password protected. We also travel with an iPad that dials up like a cell phone for an internet connection. It, too, is password protected.

[guidry]

We use our smartphone as a wifi and password protected hotspot.