Internet on the road

So you my be wondering why I have been posting about all of these cell services. While it would be easiest to find a unlimited AT&T or Verizon plan and be done with it, those plans are expensive and have their own limitations. My plan is to have a little something on each carrier so that if there is a connection to be had, one of the devices will get it. Be the device that gets the signal or be the fastest at any given location and you will be lavished in extra data while we are there. Otherwise you will sit in the drawer until needed.

Now having something on each carrier can be expensive. That's why the services I use are not the all mighty unlimited plans. I call it affordable versatility.

On AT&T I have my Cricket Phone with 10 gigs of high speed and then unlimited 2G afterwards. It's my main phone as AT&T has good service here. Up in the mountains it is 2G in the mornings and TnT all of the time. This plan cost me $65 a month on auto pay with the use of the hotspot.


FreedomPop and Ringplus are my free Sprint solutions. After buying the devices there is no monthly cost. I get a gig of data on each the Freedompop hotspot and RingPlus phone. Sprint is the weakest of the big four but if their signal is best, you can get some blazing speeds out of them.

4gas is my T-Mobile solution and while not free, at $19.71 a month for 5 gigs is a affordable solution for T-Mobile. ( $17 a month for service, the rest in fees)It also includes Binge on for free watching of the services listed, most are pay services though.  T-mobile says they cover the southern half of our boondocking areas, I really hope to get a band 12 4G signal up there.

Up there you may get service from one carrier on one side of the ridge and another on the other side. This also happens at times from one side of a sky scrapper to the other downtown.

Honey also has a Cricket phone so before we hit the road, one of them will be switched to a Verizon account so that we have all four carriers.

So for me it's 17 gigs of data and two phones for $85 a month. At home we get service from all of the carriers so I will combine them to make it possible to kill off the xfinity internet. I thought I needed the unlimited high speed until I started paying attention to how much data I really use. In reality 17 gigs is more than enough for cruising the forums, checking emails, playing pogo games and even occasional streaming of a hockey game.

So that's Jimmys get online anywhere plan.