Internet

I currently have unlimited data with ATT and use a third party app for hot spot. It isn't technically allowed but iv been doing it for months and using 100+gb a month. if they say anything to me ill just switch to Verizon.

 

You would need to use certain applications onto a wireless equipped laptop near a university or college type situation to find a unsecured hotspot and visit the net that way. Some places like a VA Hospital have hotspots inside the building waiting rooms in which you can log in with a public password etc

You will need to pay ATT or something like that to gain a ability to visit the net over the towers to your cell phone. I can visit the net on my smartphone but it is not exactly a good experience because the phone is crappy and the sites take a long time to load if at all. Data charges evaporates the money very fast.

In my time we took apart the telephone in the truckstop booth, wired it to bypass and then dailed in using our dailup account credentials while eating dinner the same as used in our home dailup. Unfortunately the phone system in the USA is not always conductive to such things, Oklahoma transmit phone dailtones over microwave and not by copper or fiber (Which did not exist then) and DSL was strictly a home thing. And would not take a computer modem trying a handshake series with another server online to authenticate gateway then access the net.

There were koisks to put a dollar in for a few minutes of net time, ultimately I think those were taken out along with the booth phones because it was a source of dark net activity that is completely anonymous and untracable when people use to faciliate a crime in those days. Libraries had the same problem, their computers were consistently infected because of no protection and usually used by some for dirty material unless caught and revoked by the library staff. Which is why today you see computers carefully positioned so that all screens is easily swept visually by a staffer in today's library for such material.

Your cell phone or Iphone is the best way to access the Net from the road provided you can already have a service plan in place to stream from your cell towers to get it.

I prefer to be at home, wired to the router and not worry about the issue of internet services anymore. Which is why sometimes I think when I am helping someone with a truck problem here, it takes a little time for them to respond tapping out a word a time on the cell phone.

At some point in the future everyone will have net directly to them individually and common services like pay phones and such will go the way of the dinosaur.

 

Oh yes. I remember the dial-up days (I was a huge fan of AOL back then, lol).

 

I was a huge fan of AOL also.

I still remember spending a day parked at a dock waiting for the trailer to get loaded. Calling both sprint and aol to get my phone to dial out for aol. The beginning days of using my cell phone plugged in to laptop to dial out on the internet. BAck in 2002.

 

I bought the first dial up over celluar modem from Sprint for like 500 dollars, I still have it somewhere buried deep I don't remember where now. Anyhow. That #### thing arrived with a encryption pre-set and bricked after a third failed attempt to log on to the internet.

As blind luck would have had it, the data rates for the first day would have been several hundred via Celluar. I think I missed a big time bullet trying to play with the big boys by surfiing the net at 70 mph... sheesh.

 

I don't remember what I was paying on top of the aol 21.95 monthly fee.

I eventually got a pcmcia air card and was able to piggyback aol on the air card signal.

The phone worked once it was figured out. But it also drained the battery. batteries didn't last very long in them days. If the laptop would have charged the phone. I wouldn't have needed the card. Internet was slow but websight weren't full of graphics back then. And Netflix didn't exist.

 

No VPN won't secure it only thing that will do is hide you from the server your connecting to...
For example your IP is 111 the VPN is 222 and the website your browsing is 333 the website will see you as 222 instead of 111... These are not realistic VPNs...
The issue with public wifi is at the local level other people with the know how that are connecting to the same wifi as you can connect to your device and or sniff packets of data to see what your doing... and they would still see you as 111 and if they looked would see your connecting to 222 the only thing a VPN hides is who you are REALY connecting to

 

It is part of Android OS but the first thing it does is checks subscription... Now you can root and get around this but by default not all carriers allow it ... Notable straight talk does not

 

The last time I rooted. And not rooted..the app basically ran off what was stock installed..

It used to be a popular app. Don't what it's status is these days.

 

Like i said i downloaded a $10 app on android to hot spot my phone and it works great...my phone isn't rooted