Wifi in a truck for gaming and laptop?

Obviously I was being a little sarcastic, but it was way too slow for my liking. Much happier with the tablet I purchased...

 

How is it " unlimited " if they give you 30 gigs? Wouldn't that be limited?

 

Verizon data plans. $60, $90, $120, $150

ATT data plans. $30.

 

Typical 2018 phone company fine print but 45 bucks for 30 GB ain't a bad deal... Especially after reading the other replies in this thread.
I was on Sprint before Ting and Their "Unlimited" plan was far worse. I was paying $140/mo until I got "Dear User, You have used 75% of your unlimited data plan" Me: How do I use 75% of what's unlimited?

If you link up your navigation for 11 hours and get on Pandora a couple hundred miles you'll blow through 1GB in a couple days..
I've done straightTalk wifi and their unlimited wifi is 7 gigs for $55.00.
Verizon was about the same. I burned up 15 GB then they throttled back my speed.
Basically, they all suck and a phone companies definition of unlimited is just a sales pitch.

 

Sprint phone used to be my main internet at home. Never had an issue with 1tb every month.
They were also the only cell service at the time. By 7 miles. For 3 years. New residential.

My son hated coming over because his V phone never had service.

 

Millenicom. Check 'em out.

 

I'm interested in what kind of ping you see for online gaming in the truck. Regardless of speed, the ping must be all over the map. Above about 70 or 80 milliseconds in COD or PUBG, etc. and you gonna be fragged a lot. Although it is probably not as big of an issue if you don't play FPS shooters.

 

I was reading a cnet article today about the Netzero hotspot. Probably nowhere near adequate for the OP but might help someone:

Broadband Internet | Mobile Broadband | DSL | Dial-Up | NetZero

 

I do not game over wireless by and large. It's wired. Ping gets down to about 18 ms at most in certain servers.

Pricing is meaningless because I pay 10 dollars a month for subsidized internet instead of 70 dollars plus and the phone itself is free. The data use is meaningless and essentially unlimited on it.

I have gotten very selective on what online games I play partly because the culture has changed in the last 15 years online and some aspects of gaming itself has become sort of weaponized against players who do not conform to the herd thought.

Ive been gaming for a better part of 45 years. Including gaming on the road via a wired phone line and later a early form of wireless celluar modem from sprint. The thing cost 400 dollars new as a laptop card with antenna to go to cell tower online and cost a bunch of money for data. I think viewing a cat picture image was 10.00 and watching a video was in excess of 50 in those days. The card was thrown away as a parasite. A profit machine for sprint.

A better use of the laptop was for GPS services with a living map on screen. It will tell you what speed you are doing (And once revealed FFE's practice of marking 65 mph speed indication for a 63 mph governed truck) and tell you how you are doing against your destination. Its the single greatest benefit. I still have the antenna and software to this day. (Rand GPS Streets from 1998)