Mobile broadband

[hookjunior]

Does anybody have any experience or recommendations on getting internet on a laptop. I can tether through my android phone but it is painfully slow. I have my service through alltel right now and they said their data card wouldn't be quite fast enough for video chat which is one of the main things I would like to have it for. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[CAMAN]

Verizon's 4G LTE service is super fast (for wireless) but I doubt you will get any 4G service that far out of the cities on any network.

[hookjunior]

How is it when you're on 3g? I will be using it all over.

[CAMAN]

I imagine your phone is running on 3G, correct? It will be basically the same speed as that +/-.

[smilee_54]

I am using virgin mobile on a air card. I play call of duty games online it costs be 40 for 5gig max. although the price has now changed. Its alot faster than thethering. as far as vidio chat thats a tuff one all around

[upnorth]

You will only be as fast as the service in the area. If verizen provides 4G in area, you will get that speed, but if not you will only get what is available no matter what provider you go with.

[hookjunior]

I guess the main thing I'm wondering is how fast it is when it's at it's slowest. Would I have to be in a 4G area to do the video chat or would It still work even in 3G. Has anyone tried streaming Netflix with one?

[spearchucker]

I guess the main thing I'm wondering is how fast it is when it's at it's slowest. Would I have to be in a 4G area to do the video chat or would It still work even in 3G. Has anyone tried streaming Netflix with one?

You will burn through your bandwidth cap in a short amount of time streaming video from Netflix. Even so called unlimited plans are capped at 5GB or something close.

[upnorth]

O but they will sell you another 5GB

[hookjunior]

Don't really plan on doing the netflix thing much, just trying to get a sense of the capabilities.

[upnorth]

I did some business testing with a verizen unit and it was OK on 3g. I wouldn't compare it to cable, but a low end DSL? yeah maybe.

[Shack]

With AT&T 3G and using it on an iPhone 4, as long as I have a signal it works only milliseconds behind when hooked to WiFi. I setup tethering but never have really needed to use it so I have no clue as to the any added lag when a tethered device/pc.

I have not seen the AT&T bills from the last couple months (work pays for an unlimited business data plan), but I "USE" my phone during the day and evening on 3G like mad more than most ever would. Hosting a domain locally on the phone and using it as a file sharing/FTP server with ServersMan and Cloud Connect, stream Netflix and pretty much anything you can think of and I am sitting at this:

Since my last wipe and update about a month and a half ago when loading v4.3.3 a week or two after it was released which was the beginning of May I believe.

The other guys at work who use the 3G connection under normal condition but do use it are always under a 1G in a months time.