<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We used a phone-as-hotspot a few years ago when a vacation rental was having DSL issues. But I'm just looking for a way to update a non-phone ipod touch without having to have multiple wifi reqistrations in a hotel that does charge for internet<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Richard Bronosky<br>
><<a href="mailto:richard@bronosky.com">richard@bronosky.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>Thanks - That's the sort of thing I'm looking for - when the family<br>
>travels, we often want to get all the various devices sync'd via wifi,<br>
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>hotel wifi can get pricey, so having a way to make my laptop an AP is a<br>
>goal<br>
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>Pete Hardie<br>
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</div></div>Hampton Inn's offer free wifi. But the room rates can be high depending on place and time of year. $ 85 - $ 125 / night. Rooms are generally nice, and may have a work area, fridge, and microwave. The wifi is usually over crowded and slow, maybe 500 Kbps - 1 Mbps. Sometimes it's better. A few time, even worse. I wouldn't want to use any hotel wifi without a vpn. I use <a href="http://hotspotvpn.com" target="_blank">hotspotvpn.com</a> for that at the moment, but may switch.<br>
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My prepaid Verizon MyFi 4G hotspot works great, and I can get speeds to about 12 Mbps in a 4G area or about 1 Mbps in a 3G area. Every 3 GB of data costs me $ 60, so I have to be REALLY stingy about data usage to stay under that for a whole month. Basically, no auto updates on weather, apps, os. No podcasts or video. Just minimal email and web surfing. I only forward certain emails to my tablet and I turn off auto email checking. If I want more, I find a coffee shop or something and connect to their wifi. Then I download my podcasts. In regards to data caps, 4G service is BAD. You can blow over your limit REALLY fast. I think you can attach 5 devices to the MyFi. I only pay to put data on the MyFi whenever I travel or every 90 days to keep the account active. When I'm just keeping it active, I only pay for a week, rather than a month.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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