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What should I do? [iPad issues]

deemarket

deemarket

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I have an iPad that I would like to use on vacation to mainly surf the web. I don't stream any music or videos. I also have an iPhone 6 with Verizon. In the past I have set up a new phone number for my iPad and paid $50/month for usage of I think it was 5G. It worked fine for me. When I wasn't on vacation and wanted to suspend it I had to call every 3 months? and keep suspending it. The last time I called in I disconnected it completely because I was told I could just use my iPhone as a hotspot and they would set it up for me.

I tried to set up the hotspot yesterday and was told it wasn't on my plan even though the last conversation i had it was suppose to be set up for me. Now they are telling me the hotspot is not set up on my plan and it will cost $10/month and they have to clear it through my city service account. I have unlimited data on my phone.

So my question is - should I purchase the monthly plan at $50/month for 5G or use the hotspot at $10 month unlimited?

Do you get the exact strength if you use a hotspot? Does it work the same?
Thanks
 
Beach Star said:
I have an iPad that I would like to use on vacation to mainly surf the web. I don't stream any music or videos. I also have an iPhone 6 with Verizon. In the past I have set up a new phone number for my iPad and paid $50/month for usage of I think it was 5G. It worked fine for me. When I wasn't on vacation and wanted to suspend it I had to call every 3 months? and keep suspending it. The last time I called in I disconnected it completely because I was told I could just use my iPhone as a hotspot and they would set it up for me.

I tried to set up the hotspot yesterday and was told it wasn't on my plan even though the last conversation i had it was suppose to be set up for me. Now they are telling me the hotspot is not set up on my plan and it will cost $10/month and they have to clear it through my city service account. I have unlimited data on my phone.

So my question is - should I purchase the monthly plan at $50/month for 5G or use the hotspot at $10 month unlimited?

Do you get the exact strength if you use a hotspot? Does it work the same?
Thanks
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Rescind!

just kidding, knee jerk reaction to anything with this thread title/

Are you sure it's $10 for unlimited? As far as I know, the $10 allows you hotspot to use your plan data. So if your plan data is 6G for family, anything you use the hotspot for comes out of that bucket. I could be wrong though.

I just don't think Verizon wants to give anyone unlimited bandwidth anymore, especially for only $10 mo.
 
Beach Star said:
I have an iPad that I would like to use on vacation to mainly surf the web. I don't stream any music or videos. I also have an iPhone 6 with Verizon. In the past I have set up a new phone number for my iPad and paid $50/month for usage of I think it was 5G. It worked fine for me. When I wasn't on vacation and wanted to suspend it I had to call every 3 months? and keep suspending it. The last time I called in I disconnected it completely because I was told I could just use my iPhone as a hotspot and they would set it up for me.

I tried to set up the hotspot yesterday and was told it wasn't on my plan even though the last conversation i had it was suppose to be set up for me. Now they are telling me the hotspot is not set up on my plan and it will cost $10/month and they have to clear it through my city service account. I have unlimited data on my phone.

So my question is - should I purchase the monthly plan at $50/month for 5G or use the hotspot at $10 month unlimited?

Do you get the exact strength if you use a hotspot? Does it work the same?
Thanks
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I just looked into it a little bit. It was mentioned that paying for tethering gives you an additional 2GB on top of your data plan. So if you pay for tethering and you have a 6GB Share Everything Plan, or a 6BG phone plan, then you can use 2GB tethered and 6GB between your respective devices, including tethering.

Depending on how much data youare already paying for, music streaming isn't a huge hit on data, compared to movie streaming. You might be okay with this.

I don't know how a phone performs as a hotspot, though. I do know there are areas in town where 4G performs poorly on my phone.
 
Problem solved

I talked to my public safety account rep and I won't have a problem on data because I actually have unlimited email and Data EVDO Unlimited.

The only thing that I am not happy with is I will not be able to use my iPad keyboard because I will be using bluetooth for the Hotspot service.

I guess I can live with that if I'm saving $40/month ($10 hotspot vs $50) and that $50 service would only give me 5g of data use.
 
Are you sure you can't set up a WiFi hotspot on your phone, which would allow your devices to connect to the phone via WiFi, rather than Bluetooth? Your device then just sees your phone as another available WiFi network. I do this with my Verizon Samsung S3 occasionally, and it doesn't require any sort of additional fees -- just eats into my data plan usage.

Verizon <--(data connection)--> Phone <--(WiFi)--> Tablet <--(Bluetooth)--> Keyboard

See: http://www.phonearena.com/news/How-...a-Wi-Fi-mobile-hotspot-iOS-8-tutorial_id50579

We were just at a French Lick Villas where there was no useable WiFi so that's how I connected my tablet for the week (when not sponging off free WiFi at restaurants or nearby hotel).
 
Verizon iPad

Just got a new iPad last weekend and set it up on my existing Verizon cellular plan for an extra $10. a month but it has to share my iPhone's 3GB data plan. On the "Pay As You Go Plan" I was paying $30. a month for my old iPad whether I used it or not.
 
For what it's worth, do you really need it? I got the free MagicJack app on my iPad and iPhone and can call anywhere from anywhere, even Italy. Has saved me thousand's of dollars from all over europe as well as NA. Can't figure out how MagicJack makes money on it though as I paid them nothing. All you need is a wifi spot and call anywhere, even across the street. Stop at a McDs have a coffee and call anywhere, even from your car if in wifi range. Doesn't do much while on the road but there are McDs everywhere.

Brian
 
pwrshift said:
All you need is a wifi spot
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This. Op isn't looking to make calls, they are looking to play streaming music on their iPad without going and finding a WiFi spot. So they need WiFi. Solution: Tethering their smartphone.
 
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