Cellphone Isp Providers

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by kjhansen56, Nov 12, 2018.

  1. kjhansen56

    kjhansen56 Corporal

    I read about this on here a while ago--that several cellphone companies offer ISP for wireless in your home. Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, etc. It's a hotspot only it's a flat monthly fee for unlimited service. I don't know where to find the article and searched to no avail. Anybody know anything about this? I've about had it with the satellite ISPs available out here in the country. They advertise "high speed" but that means a max of 25mps, and that's only if nobody else is using it, which is almost never. Normal speeds are well below 10mps (like down to .97mps) and they have data limits at "high speed" and throttle you down when you exceed them--and they are very expensive. Not to mention latency errors which kick you off some web sites altogether. The only wired service is Century Link and their idea of high speed is pretty low speed, plus they are a pretty sketchy company, offering one thing and giving you another, but charging the higher price for the first. I have a hotspot, and it works well, but data is EXTREMELY expensive. So, can anybody help me here?
    Keith
     
  2. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

  3. kjhansen56

    kjhansen56 Corporal

    Thanks for the reply, but no. That thread is just about normal hotspots, which I already have. At $75 for 7gb, that's tremendously expensive. We use well over 50gb a month. Probably over 100gb. My wife is on her iPad most of the day, and even when she's not ON it, she leaves it on and leaves it online. My grandkids and kids are over a lot and when they are they're watching Netflix or Hulu or YouTube. I like car videos (Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Jay Leno's Garage and a bunch of others) and do a lot of work and communicating online. We go through data fast. No, I'm talking about an ISP, like any other ISP, but offered by cell phone companies. You don't buy gigabytes, you just pay a flat fee every month and get unlimited gigabytes, although it wasn't clear whether they were throttled down after a certain point. I remember that T-Mobile and Sprint were reasonably priced at around $130 a month or so (everything is relative--my HughesNet is $107 a month but I only get 50 gb and that can be gone in a couple of weeks or less). Verizon was ridiculous at $249 a month. So, while the technology is "hotspot" the methodology is like a normal ISP, like HughesNet or Total High Speed, or etc.
     
  4. Anon-469e6fb48c

    Anon-469e6fb48c Anonymized

    Don't trust T-mobile.They are spotty at best.

    What area you live in.

    Is there Comcast.
     
  5. Anon-469e6fb48c

    Anon-469e6fb48c Anonymized


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