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I've been hotspotting with Verizon for my primary internet connection since January 1. I'm currently paying $100/mo for their "unlimited" plan, which gets me 60
by thaumaturgy 9y ago
I've been hotspotting with Verizon for my primary internet connection since January 1. I'm currently paying $100/mo for their "unlimited" plan, which gets me 600kbps, or approximately the slowest viable tier of terrestrial DSL for which people usually pay in the neighborhood of $20 a month.
If I want to pay $10 more, I can get "beyond unlimited", with 4G hotspotting -- but only for the first 15GB, and then after that it's back to 600kbps again.
I'm canceling Netflix shortly because it's a miserable experience on this connection.
I'll be signing up the day Starlink becomes available and dropping Verizon to the cheapest plan they offer. Even if it's a little more expensive than what I'm currently paying, it'll be worth it just to give the middle finger to these bastards.
Heck, might even have a celebratory barbecue.
- eigenman 9y agoI've been using a hotspot from the Calyx Institute https://www.calyxinstitute.org/ https://www.calyxinstitute.org/ as my sole internet connection for the past year and a half. It's a nonprofit which offers an "unlimited" hotspot on the Sprint network for $500/year. I get 16.3Mbps down and 3.96Mbps up (per Google) and streaming video works just fine. You might want to check that out instead.
- thaumaturgy 9y agoThis looks pretty fantastic, and the coverage map (https://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?#!/ https://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp?#!/) looks like it handles most of the places I've been skulking about. Thanks!