Newbie Issues...Internet

[robert nloomas]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
wrote:
I have been using data storm for over 5 years now while on the road
have the auto dish on the coach.At home I have a stationary dish
so all I have to do is remove the modem from the coach and use the
same system.
Bob Loomas 1985 PT 36
Data Storm user 127
>
> Verizon has a fairly well documented throughput limit of 5GB per
month, with cutoff without notice. Lots of major complaint threads
in a lot of places about that one.
>
> I know a guy who is on a satellite connection with 1GB per month
limit, and he never even comes close. I suspect you aren't close to
5GB per month.
>
> My average use is 15GB per month. I move a lot of files. Hours of
use do not equate to gigabytes of use. As far as dead spots I stand
by my assertion of hundreds of thousands of square miles. Those are
areas where few live, and likely few go, so when someone says they
don't run into them I believe them. Travel choices are highly varied.
>
> On 9/12/2007 at 9:15 PM mbulriss wrote:
>
> >--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
> > wrote:
> >> Sprint and Verizon Air cards are very common. Service price
similar
> >> Cons are not available everywhere - probably at least several
> >> hundred thousand square miles of the west where that is true,
> >> and monthly limitations on throughput (Verizon).
> >
> >Don, what you mean by monthly limitations on throughput? My
$59/month
> >Verizon card is unlimited usage and, trust me, I use it for many
hours
> >at a time on nearly a daily basis. As far as dead spots, I know
that
> >there are some, but if I can use a cell phone it usually works.
> >
> >FWIW,
> >
> >Mike Bulriss
> >1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
> >San Antonio, TX
>