| [GMCnet] Internet on the road [message #166073] |
Wed, 11 April 2012 21:08  |
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Hi Byron and Dan,
At the upcoming GMCWS rally at Casa de Fruita near Hollister, CA, Gene Fisher and Armand Minnie will be doing a seminar on this very subject that should shed a lot of light on what is currently available. In one of my two presentations I will be talking about how to prep yourselves and your coach for successful long distance travel. As part of that seminar I will be talking about the Verizon Home Phone Connect program that I think is ideal for GMC owners. For $20 per month (no contract) and a $100 gizmo you buy outright, you can port over your existing land line telephone number to a device that uses cell towers instead of the phone jack and wires on the telephone poles for all your voice needs. No long distance charges and no roaming fees and unlimited local and long distance service anywhere in the US for $20 a month. Best of all, you can take it and your existing home phone with you when you travel so your caller has no idea whether you are at home or on the road. It
is a great solution for voice needs and is likely quite a bit cheaper than your current home phone service. For wifi on the road I use the 3G Mifi2200 device. We live in a rural area with no near term hope of 4g and many of the current crop of 4g units are struggling to switch reliably between 4g and 3g networks. Reboots are not uncommon when you go from one to another. The 3g things seems to be close to bullet proof. In most places we have been 3g speeds are around .75mb up and .5mb down - slower than a really good DSL, slower than many cable offerings and wayyyy slower than the very best 4g service available in a hand full of major metro areas. On a good day with a strong signal we can get as much as 1.5mb up and .75 down, but think more in terms of the slower speeds as the norm. No matter what the down/up load speeds are, currently all the offerings are based on how much you down load, not how fast you do it. It eats up just as many mb to download a video at 3g
speeds as it does at 4g speeds. Since the current plans now all locus around 5gb per month for around $50, don't plan on doing a lot of Utube or movie streaming as you can blow through 5gb in a heart beat at 4g speeds with video feeds. It is great for normal email and web browsing, but not yet for streaming video.
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:33:26 -0400
From: Byron Songer <bsonger@songerconsulting.net>
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Internet while traveling
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Personally, this is the year to start switching over to 4G. Where it isn't
available there will be a high probability of 3G to back down to. When
that isn't available, of course, there is EDGE. Of course, I'm talking
AT&T.
Verizon's high speed behaves the same, it backs down to the slower when
faster isn't available. Same for Sprint.
I would only get a WiFi router that can handle a USB dongle. No sense to
getting fenced into a particular speed as in a MiFi (which also has a
limited range of about 20 feet).
Now, the thing mentioned that can do WiFi for WAN as well as USB mobile
broadband attachment, that's neat. My issue with that is that in a typical
campground, the shared WiFi can get really slow. At that point a 4G to the
internet would be superlative.
Of course, when you go to some locations whatever signal you get may be
nearly non-existent.
Byron Songer
Louisville, KY
News and Web Editor, GMC Eastern States
http://www.gmceast.com
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http://www.gmceast.com/travel
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