I do not have a landline for my phone or cable tv, nor do I want them. What I do want is how do I get Wifi without having to have either of them. Any ideas? I have friends and family who use the home during the summer when we are not there. Other than using there phones as hot spots is there anything else I can do?
I used to have internet only from verizon, no home phone and "cable" from DirecTV.
If you don't want to pay that, you're paying a hotspot, which based on utilization could get expensive.
they're so portable, you will go there one day and it won't be there. The passwords are on the back of the device (at least it was for mine) and they're resettable, and you'd need to call verizon in cancel it if/when you notice it is missing. Think of it like leaving your cell phone, turned into a hot spot, in the house.
You can suspend your wifi service through Verizon or whoever if you only want it in the summer or some temporary time.
they're so portable, you will go there one day and it won't be there. The passwords are on the back of the device (at least it was for mine) and they're resettable, and you'd need to call verizon in cancel it if/when you notice it is missing. Think of it like leaving your cell phone, turned into a hot spot, in the house.
You can suspend your wifi service through Verizon or whoever if you only want it in the summer or some temporary time.
It's not that hard. I have a friend who rents out a house on Block Island, and he's got a hotspot which he includes in the leasing agreement with a quota of data. If the tenant damages or loses the hotspot in any way, he's on the hook to pay for it. If he exceeds his quota, he pays by the byte. Considering most of them have caps that can be applied to shut it down when it exceeds a certain threshold, it's not really a huge risk.
I didn't like the hotspot because of the reliability and speed of the connection in my case. And turning the internet access on and off, when we visit the house occasionally throughout the year and there's an administrative fee (last I checked $15 each time) to enable and disable it didn't prove to be worth the aggravation.
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TMobile/MetroPCS has a 28Gb monthly limit at full speed. However, once I'm over that the decrease (throttle down) is minimal.
BTW: 1 phone like this is $60/month.
It is seasonal
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