[ale] [OT] droid, ssh & vz data plans...

Doug McNash dmcnash at charter.net
Wed Nov 11 20:17:52 EST 2009


I do ssh with my 'droid (using ConnectBot) to my home systems.
We have the $25 plan (might be $30 now, wife pays the bill) and unlimited messages which ends up being the same but cheaper than the unlimited plan.
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doug mcnash

---- Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com> wrote: 
> all,
> 
> I really want to get a droid but figuring out vz's plans is like negotiating
> a new car in the middle of a root canal...  to be fair, I've been a vz cust
> for 5-6 yrs (forget exactly) and once you have a phone & are activated their
> network's great but the intentional (I believe) obfuscation is extremely
> annoying (to put it kindly) when you're shopping for new phone/plan.
> 
> anyway, I digress - I obviously need ssh from the phone & I've heard people
> throwing around $30 for data but when I try to order it describes that price
> point as "personal email & web" vs the $45 "unlimited data".  does anyone
> know if the $30 data level is truly http/smtp/imap only?  are there any
> alers who have successfully ssh'd from a droid on the $30 data plan?



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