Not if it's you're sole internet source. Drop cable or dsl and just this for home and on the go. Not so bad. Consider what you pay a month now for Internet at home plus a 3G iPad.
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Not if it's you're sole internet source. Drop cable or dsl and just this for home and on the go. Not so bad. Consider what you pay a month now for Internet at home plus a 3G iPad.
I could never give up my cable. I get speeds no wireless service will soon match. 25Mbps down and 3-5Mbps up.
As for the iPad and 3G... I use approx. 66MB of 3G data on my iPhone each month. So, it is a certainty that I won't use more than 250MB of 3G data on my iPad each month. $14.99 a month is WAY cheaper than any MyFi hotspot, period. Spending the extra $45 per month is a total and utter waste. I have no other need for the ability to use it with other devices.
PLUS... the Overdrive and other MyFi hotspots have about 2-3 hour battery life. Inconvenient!!
I agree the MyFi devices work for some folks. But not for everyone.
Mark
Another option is to go with Verizon Pixi Plus for $29(for the device), free mobile hotspot ($50 per month discounted to $0), then your regular phone + data charge. Assuming that you don't have any other cell coverage.
Engadget : Verizon Mobile Hotspot on webOS devices now free, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus fall to $49.99 and $29.99
Engadget : Verizon Mobile Hotspot on webOS devices now free, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus fall to $49.99 and $29.99
- AT&T will be no contract
- Sprint has a 2 year contract
- iPad with 3G is $130 more
- Overdrive costs $149 for the device (with $50 mail in rebate, which is a gamble anyway)
- AT&T has no activation fee
- Overdrive has a $36 activation fee
- iPad with 3G is unknown battery but should be very close to the Wifi one, lets just guess 7 hours
- Overdrive battery life is about 4 hours
- AT&T is $29 a month (The 250MB package is worthless)
- Overdrive is $59 a month
Not to mention, the overdrive is another physical device that you have to carry and make sure its charged.
Sure I need to wait a few weeks and its driving me crazy, but not even close to considering getting an Overdrive has a replacement. I would just jailbreak my iPhone and head that route.
- Sprint has a 2 year contract
- iPad with 3G is $130 more
- Overdrive costs $149 for the device (with $50 mail in rebate, which is a gamble anyway)
- AT&T has no activation fee
- Overdrive has a $36 activation fee
- iPad with 3G is unknown battery but should be very close to the Wifi one, lets just guess 7 hours
- Overdrive battery life is about 4 hours
- AT&T is $29 a month (The 250MB package is worthless)
- Overdrive is $59 a month
Not to mention, the overdrive is another physical device that you have to carry and make sure its charged.
Sure I need to wait a few weeks and its driving me crazy, but not even close to considering getting an Overdrive has a replacement. I would just jailbreak my iPhone and head that route.
-Overdrive has 4G
-AT&T wont have 4G for at least another year
Enough said
Shoot out at the speed gizmo corral
I love it
I will real world test it for my area about a month from now
Hope to report back with valuable intel
AT&T's 250MB plan (for iPad 3G) is absolutely not worthless. It's an incredibly cool deal. There are a LOT of folks that use less than 250MB per month. And even if you use an average of 450MB per month, the 250MB plan is still cheaper than the unlimited plan!
Yes, you read that right... the 250MB plan is cheaper if you use an average of 450MB per month!!
Why? Because AT&T will let you buy each block of 250MB for $14.99 and each time you buy a new block of 250MB the calendar gets reset to 30 days!
So, let's say you use an average of 450MB per month. Divided by 30, that's 15MB per day. Divide 250MB by 15 and you find it will take you 16.66 days to use up your 250MB. Then, after 16.66 days you buy another block of 250MB. The two combined come to a total of 33.32 days and you paid $29.98. That's 3.32 days more than the 30 days you'll get with the unlimited plan for $29.99. And 365 days in a year divided by 33.32 = 10.95 "months". Let's call it 11. So, if you use 450MB per month but by buy your data in 250MB chunks, at the end of a year you will have paid 11 x $29.98 = $329.78. Under the unlimited plan you would have purchased 12 months at $29.99 for $359.88 You save $30 by buying the 250MB chunks.
The savings will be true (to one degree or another) right up until you exceed more than 499MB per month average. THEN it makes more sense to buy the unlimited plan.
But the reality is, a LOT of folks use less than 250MB per month and a lot of folks fall in the 250-500MB per month area. For both of those groups, the 250MB plan makes a LOT of sense!
Obviously, if you are a huge bandwidth consumer, then the unlimited plan makes sense. But some folks would be surprised how little 3G data they really use when their iPads are connected via WiFi part of the time. For the last year, I've averaged less than 68MB per month on my iPhone. I could use nearly four times that amount of data on the iPad and still be in the 250MB range for a month.
Before anyone just immediately signs up for the unlimited plan, I encourage them to analyze their data usage and understand how the 250MB plan works. It really is a revolutionary and fair way to pay for data on a portable device!
Mark
My friend in Vegas is running his iPad on his 4G Overdrive. Says its nearly as fast as his high speed internet connection at home.
No I dropped cox I just have the USB and I use clear spot it's a separate box you plug the USB into then it becomes basically an airport. If I had home service I would probably still have cox
because of all the other perks ie phone and tv. But I just have the mobile 4G
And btw I did not sign a contract it was only a 30 dollar difference to buy the modem and clear spot as apposed to signing a contract