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For a straight-forward solution, the Target/Tracfone offer can be bundled with a matching household router: I show $88.19 for the combination of router and this 30-day card.
Also "not competitively priced" to what? If you have cheaper/better options, sure, a lot of us don't. Rural/under served areas often pay more for internet, or have slower or limited options at the cheaper prices. Cheapest fiber, 100/20 in town, not available out here, nearly $100/month. Other town charges $20 base fee plus $0.13 per 1GB of data (the only plan), it's much faster fiber, but it can cost a LOT if you use it much. Well, cell internet isn't officially available here from any carrier either, at this time (Verizon just upgraded their tower, it's 10 miles away, so it might be coming). I did have the PUDP jetpack plan for a while, 10Mbps on that until I switched. Basically, the only options I have for home internet are using unofficial cell options in a router (which I have done), or Starlink (which is $90 in my low demand/sparse area for full service, or $80 for "lite", I get about 400/20 on my full service 99% of the time, never tested below 300), or last resort options like Hughesnet/Viasat.
Maybe put it in your car for a hotspot..
I was thinking of the starlink options too.. I have to stop feeding comcrap.
Maybe put it in your car for a hotspot..
I was thinking of the starlink options too.. I have to stop feeding comcrap.
If you'd have Starlink's full service at home, they've offered some of us "free" mini (which must be returned if you cancel service), activated on the $5 standby, and half off if you turn on full service.
Car hotspot, that use cellular options would be cheaper (like the above mentioned Visible service), but Starlink would be available in more places. There is at least one Tmobile unlimited/mobile hotspot option that is in this price range (but you have to pay a year, last time I looked, Calyx internet, it's legit service unlike some resellers). Just the limitations/availability to think about with the cell options.
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For a straight-forward solution, the Target/Tracfone offer can be bundled with a matching household router: I show $88.19 for the combination of router and this 30-day card.
Also "not competitively priced" to what? If you have cheaper/better options, sure, a lot of us don't. Rural/under served areas often pay more for internet, or have slower or limited options at the cheaper prices. Cheapest fiber, 100/20 in town, not available out here, nearly $100/month. Other town charges $20 base fee plus $0.13 per 1GB of data (the only plan), it's much faster fiber, but it can cost a LOT if you use it much. Well, cell internet isn't officially available here from any carrier either, at this time (Verizon just upgraded their tower, it's 10 miles away, so it might be coming). I did have the PUDP jetpack plan for a while, 10Mbps on that until I switched. Basically, the only options I have for home internet are using unofficial cell options in a router (which I have done), or Starlink (which is $90 in my low demand/sparse area for full service, or $80 for "lite", I get about 400/20 on my full service 99% of the time, never tested below 300), or last resort options like Hughesnet/Viasat.
Just to reiterate, if you have Verizon signal, you can get Visible MNVO plans, which is what Tracfone uses too.
Visible TOS doesn't allow hotspot? Why would they advertise in all their plans unlimited hotspot (only speed limited, not amount limited) if the TOS doesn't allow hotspot? Better yet, provide a link to the Visible TOS that has such wording.
I have used a 2023 Moto G Stylus's built-in hotspot (allows up to 10 devices) feature with a Visible basic plan SIM and left it plugged in, set the battery saver feature on so it doesn't charge above 80%. It provided home internet for my parents for a few months no issues. They are in a suburban area, so your mileage may vary depending on how congested, in that case, get the Visible+ tier, which has higher priority than the basic tier.
Just to reiterate, if you have Verizon signal, you can get Visible MNVO plans, which is what Tracfone uses too.
You're misunderstanding the comments about this. Visible definitely allows using the hotspot in your phone. But Visible TOS does not allow installing the SIM in a dedicated MiFi/hotspot, nor in a gateway/router. Visible also throttles the speed of the hotspot, limits the number of connections, and specifically forbids using it as a whole-house WiFi replacement. The Tracfone offer specifically allows those things. (Yes, there are workarounds for some of this, and workarounds for all of it if you're willing and capable of performing some 'magic' on another cellular device & aren't worried about the possibility of being suspended.)
I have a Visible line, and I like it very much. It's just not the same offer as a dedicated data-only line, especially when paired with a heavily discounted whole-house gateway router.
Also "not competitively priced" to what? If you have cheaper/better options, sure, a lot of us don't. Rural/under served areas often pay more for internet, or have slower or limited options at the cheaper prices. Cheapest fiber, 100/20 in town, not available out here, nearly $100/month. Other town charges $20 base fee plus $0.13 per 1GB of data (the only plan), it's much faster fiber, but it can cost a LOT if you use it much. Well, cell internet isn't officially available here from any carrier either, at this time (Verizon just upgraded their tower, it's 10 miles away, so it might be coming). I did have the PUDP jetpack plan for a while, 10Mbps on that until I switched. Basically, the only options I have for home internet are using unofficial cell options in a router (which I have done), or Starlink (which is $90 in my low demand/sparse area for full service, or $80 for "lite", I get about 400/20 on my full service 99% of the time, never tested below 300), or last resort options like Hughesnet/Viasat.
The other cool thing about this approach is I was able to set it up for fallback internet; if you need high availability, DD-WRT can do things like link aggregation (uses both connections to boost bandwidth), and automatically switch to using WiFi for WAN when the ethernet WAN is unavailable (improve availability, e.g. in a power outage or storms, etc.).
The other cool thing about this approach is I was able to set it up for fallback internet; if you need high availability, DD-WRT can do things like link aggregation (uses both connections to boost bandwidth), and automatically switch to using WiFi for WAN when the ethernet WAN is unavailable (improve availability, e.g. in a power outage or storms, etc.).
The "problem" with using the hotspot on Visible for that, they can and do suspend lines they suspect of "not ok" usage. And the 5Mbps throttle on basic, 10 on pro, and I think 15 on + (officially)? I had no issue with that speed, as Verizon only did 10Mbps on a band 13 only tower up until a couple months ago. And like the other poster, I had a phone set up for my mom like that for several months, and it worked. But low use.
Last one I did was the whole phone plan in a router thing. Not difficult to do, reliable. I only got Starlink because I had a couple months free, and $150 hardware/$90/month after that (or $80 lite). Ended up with 5 months free, it's MUCH faster, and the latency is ~20ms compared to 80ms+ for all the cell providers here. Noticeably snappier browsing, and I don't miss the 700ms+ pings from original satellite.
Visible ~"can" work for "some" home situations, but it's limitations are not something some people would deal with. Plus, if a lot of people did that, I'd highly suspect they'd take more steps to prevent it.
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