Happy_Trails wrote:

Gotta get a router, my wife still uses WiFi, as it is available free in Thousand Trails campgrounds. But feel it would be nicer for her not to have to go to the lodge to use it. Though she says she likes to get out, she might change her mind with a router.

We travel an average of 12,000 miles a year, with Verizon, Wilson antenna & amplifier. Since we got it, would n not be without it. In three years only found but one place where we could not get Verizon service. That was in Yosemite Lakes campground 6 miles out of Yosemite. Mountains close all around the campground and no towers. Could not even get cell service from the nearest town on the road in. Good service in Yosemite itself.

We did find some locations where we did not get broadband last year. But, since we got the new Verizon in August card, we get broadband even when roaming. With National plan no charge on roaming. We did get a cardslot Card from Verizon. I like it better than USB, most inside the Laptop instead of hanging off the outside. Cant imagine connecting an antenna cable to a USB card, seem to tenuous a connection to me.

TimfmCT wrote:


I too have Verizon cell phone service and our laptop has a card for the internet. When ypou speak of the wilson antenna which we have, what is the amplifier ? Does it have naything to so with the internet?
I ask because we have the Verizon office card or something like that, and the internet is another $60 a month. Is that what you use?
Tim fm CT

Wolfe wrote:

So are the speeds of the 3G cellular cards almost as good as DSL, I read on other sites that they rarely reach advertised speeds.