[ale] [OT] Effective, non-ripoff, cheaper-than-Comcast/AT&T Internet for apartment

[Byron Jeff]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 07:48:44PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>    Freedompop looks like it's only good for a SIM card to put in an
>    unlocked phone. Any idea if those can be put into a USB cell Internet
>    stick? I've got one of those that I think is ex-Verizon from a few
>    years ago that I could give her if the Freedompop SIM card can animate
>    it.

Freedompop has their own Wifi hotspot hardware ranging in price from $30 or
so.

But as others have pointed out in recent FP threads, that Freedompop is real
slick in trying to extract dollars out of their supposedly "free" service.

BAJ

>    On 4/15/17 2:54 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> 
>      Freedompop got some free data deals. I think needs to be below 500
>      MB.
>      On Friday, April 14, 2017, Alex Carver <[1]agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
>      wrote:
> 
>      On 2017-04-14 15:16, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>      > What's the move these days for an Atlanta apartment dweller (my
>      aunt)
>      > who needs Wifi internet for her laptop and scant little else? I
>      used to
>      > know someone a few years ago who had the Clear service (basically
>      a
>      > cell-system-connected hotspot box) but that seems to have gone
>      away,
>      > bought by Sprint.
>      How much traffic?  You can get an AT&T Unite hotspot (it's a Netgear
>      that can be loaded with prepaid cards to purchase data allotments.
>      I
>      picked up one for travel use so I wouldn't have to depend on hotel
>      wireless service or, with a beam antenna, get some basic network
>      service
>      at long distances (like middle of nowhere Arizona/New Mexico).  No
>      name
>      is attached to the unit and I can buy the cards almost anywhere
>      (grocery
>      stores, Walmart, etc.)
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