Bought the pre-paid Hotspot and loaded 3/2 gb cards since February. On the 27th of April called to load another card and the automated voice kept saying I had a refill pending and I could not load the new card. My computer had ran out of gb's and have only one computer so I could not go to the website. After what seemed liked endless days trying to call and 3 trips to Walmart the dilemma was caused by me. I had become so confused with this new fangled gadgetry that I was entering the wrong info and had done the reset of the device and had cancelled it's (handshake) with my computer. It could not decipher because I had erased the hotspots memory.
Sometimes it is hard being HUMAN!!! Just like my memory; if it don't recieve the correct info it can't solve the problem!!! LOL!
THE VERY THING I MISS THE MOST IS MY MIND!!!
-- Edited by PIEERE on Thursday 8th of May 2014 08:29:13 AM
manycats said
06:05 PM May 8, 2014
I learned to use a computer when floppies were really floppy and you needed two of them to run any program. I could even create my own macros, use Basic, and make the machine do what I wanted. Now I'm stuck with Windows 8.1 and it does whatever IT wants. Smart phones are too smart for what's left of my mind. My sympathies are with you...
Maybe that's why we RVers like to cook over an open fire - we are reverting to our caveman days.
Hdrider said
03:44 PM May 11, 2014
LOL,,, I went to a Biz college and leaned computer programing when computers took up the entire room. You know, card punch, card sorters, huge spools ect. I programmed in RPG, BAL Cobol and Fortran. Yep,, pretty much useless now. And now I'm lucky to upload a picture.
rmgraves said
03:56 PM Jun 5, 2014
Does the Walmart hotspot work well ? And can it netflix ?
Lucky Mike said
04:20 PM Jun 5, 2014
to netflix with it it would be costly....figure at 10.00 per gig.....thats 10.00 per movie(avg.movie 1gb) figure 4 movies a month is roughly the cost of dish network !
Technomadia said
05:50 PM Jun 5, 2014
Actually.. no the hotspot would not work very well for Netflix. Aside from it being pretty pricey, it's on the 3G network only - so it would be slow and low quality.
If you just need a little bit of data every so often for e-mail, basic web surfing - the StraightTalk hotspot deal may make sense. We've had reports of it actually being slower than other devices also using the Verizon 3G network too.
the wheelberries said
06:43 PM Jun 10, 2014
Pieere, We have the walmart hotspot from straight talk as well. works great when I do my part, i have had to change the password two times
being 72 seems to encourage forgeting little things like that. Wrote it down, forgot where. but after all is said and done it seems to work pretty well.
rather short range but in a fifth wheel so what. saw that you are in Lebenan, Tn. We are chattanoogans soon to be westward wanderers.
ron and nan faulkenberry new FTers
PIEERE said
08:05 AM Jun 11, 2014
I sometimes think I could get a carrier pigeon to move data faster!!! LOL! It has unlimited dated but after the first 2 gb it slows down. If you add a card you don't get the speed back until the previous time runs out! It really don't impress me much.
Sometimes it is hard being HUMAN!!!
Just like my memory; if it don't recieve the correct info it can't solve the problem!!! LOL!
THE VERY THING I MISS THE MOST IS MY MIND!!!
-- Edited by PIEERE on Thursday 8th of May 2014 08:29:13 AM
Maybe that's why we RVers like to cook over an open fire - we are reverting to our caveman days.
If you just need a little bit of data every so often for e-mail, basic web surfing - the StraightTalk hotspot deal may make sense. We've had reports of it actually being slower than other devices also using the Verizon 3G network too.
Pieere, We have the walmart hotspot from straight talk as well. works great when I do my part, i have had to change the password two times
being 72 seems to encourage forgeting little things like that. Wrote it down, forgot where. but after all is said and done it seems to work pretty well.
rather short range but in a fifth wheel so what. saw that you are in Lebenan, Tn. We are chattanoogans soon to be westward wanderers.
ron and nan faulkenberry new FTers