Cell Phone v. Home wifi

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I'm taking notes.

[ronparise Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ronparise]

We have satellite TV with Dish network and our phone and internet is Verizon wireless. We purchased a grandfathered unlimited data plan and use a Verizon jet pac to connect all of our devices to the internet. Since we are now traveling around the country fulltime, we needed the mobility. We also have a small plan on a phone with AT&T for backup when Verizon doesn't work but that's very rare as Verizon has the best national coverage.

It's working really well so far. We got it in July. We are able to stream movies and do everything we could on our DSL we had. Some times we get in a poor signal area, but then we turn on our signal booster and it usually will bring it up to a usable level.

Let me know if you have any questions.

The problem for most of us is that unless things have changed recently neither Verizon, sprint or Att offer unlimited plans any more, So getting your TV service through your cell service gets really expensive,

However I think Cricket offers an unlimited data plan that I will look at for next season

[buzglyd Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close buzglyd]

The problem for most of us is that unless things have changed recently neither Verizon, sprint or Att offer unlimited plans any more, So getting your TV service through your cell service gets really expensive,

However I think Cricket offers an unlimited data plan that I will look at for next season

That's why I suggested T Mobile with the Binge On option. There is a lengthy list of providers that stream without counting against your data. Strong signal in San Diego when you're on the boat. What happened to the cocktail party?

[buzglyd Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close buzglyd]

I have an iPad Air 2. Don't know if it has cell radio


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Look in settings and see if it has a setting for cellular data or check the side for a sim card slot. The box should say Wifi or Wifi + LTE

[shorts Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shorts]

The problem for most of us is that unless things have changed recently neither Verizon, sprint or Att offer unlimited plans any more, So getting your TV service through your cell service gets really expensive,

However I think Cricket offers an unlimited data plan that I will look at for next season

There are ways to purchase or lease unlimited data plans from Verizon thru assumption of license. However, Verizon has gone after some of the really high data users (over 500 MB) that were out of contract. We purchased a plan thru a very good vendor and got a 2 year contract paying only $45 a month for the unlimited data. I think as long as we stay under 100-200 MB a month Verizon won't have any problem with our usage.

I think T-mobile has recently changed their plans and no longer offers binge on but I could be wrong.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I'm getting the sense that there is not a viable way to do all a couple normally does (well Internet-wise) on cable or DSL wifi on a mobile plan instead.

(sigh)

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Currently we have Charter in TN and will have Comcast in MI in the near future. Is there a way for TV that we could get it from one provider, say Comcast in MI and stream it somehow to TN? I think we would still have to have Charter for internet in TN.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Posts 7 & 8 is our 2-residence TV plan. We can TV for one or both locations at the same time on the same plan.

[pittle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pittle]

We only have internet access with Cox. We cut our Cox bill by $200 a couple of years ago. We do not want to get away from our laptops - too much stuff there and bigger screens for older eyes, so we will probably always have internet access.

Our cell phone plan through AT&T gives us 20GB of Data usage per month and when I turn my HotSpot on and use the cellular WIFI for my laptop, it works fine. We were having some issues with our Cox signal for a while (turned out to be a bad router) and I used my HotSpot for my computer for days and it worked great. I do run my iPad on the Hotspot just so I use some of my data. But, if we want to watch Netflix or SlingTV on the iPad, it eats up data and it buffered more than it does with our regular WIFI signal.

We kept our landline phone number and ported it to Magic Jack, so it is an internet phone. It rings on the phones in our house and we can forward Voicemail to our email account, so when we are on vacation, we get the missed calls. I have not been willing to give many people my cell number as Ii do not want to carry it with me all the time. I just prefer to keep it in my purse to that I have it when I am out and about. Hubby does carry his with him and therefore uses his more than I do mine.

We have digital antennas for local TV and use Roku with Netflix & SlingTV and have more to watch than we need to. I get to watch HGTV and Kansas BB of ESPN and hubby watches other stuff on Netflix.