Before I switched to Viaero's recently upgraded service, I had Verizon through Millenicom. $70 for 20GB with no overages, which raised to $90 around May. They send the same Verizon branded Jetpack. I moved the SIM card to a Pantech UML290 usb modem, and plugged that into a Cradlepoint MBR95 router. Usb modem (and jetpack) were connected to roof antenna. The router controlled the modem, and had data usage rules that could be set for daily/weekly/monthly and either alert you or disable the connection at whatever cap you choose. The router could also connect wirelessly to the hotspot, but using the directly connected usb was more reliable being always on/controlled by router. If connected wirelessly to the jetpack, you just connect to the Cradlepoint with all devices, same usage rules in use.
The service was initially 3G before Verizon turned on 4G, with 3G service I was averaging about 3 meg down at 9 miles from the tower, videos loaded fine, webpages almost instantly except for heavy graphic stuff. Not a lot of difference when web browsing compared to the 20-30 meg 4G that I got. Now I'm on "4G" (so called), paying for 4 meg and I get about 3.5 meg, same thing, browsing is very fast, videos load fine, and it will stream some 720p, though I don't watch video online (yet anyway) except briefly.
If you could get a prepaid service that would be better on your wallet. If I had to have another not prepaid service besides what I have, it would be what Verizon used to call Homefusion. Hopefully more options will be available someday, the low orbit satellites look promising if they would deploy them here. My regional GSM carrier has an advertised 100GB cap and overages are like $1 per gig. Needed more than a plain roof antenna to get service due to their frequency not penetrating very well even though the tower is closer, but I haven't had issues. Much beyond 6 miles from the tower or behind any trees, service takes work to be reliable or usable, depending.
This post was edited by rview_ at 05:47:44 09/06/14.
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