Well the truckstop wifi is $5 for 24 hours, or $20 for a month. If you purchase ant TA or Petro you can use it at any TA or Petro. If you purchase it at Pilot or Flying J you can use it at any Pilot or Flying J. Alot of places it is next to worthless though. You can get a usb wifi card with antennae to pull in a stronger signal, but still if there's a bunch of other guys trying to use it at the same time about all it's good for is checking your email or TTR. It's rare to get good enough speeds to stream movies.
Something to look at as well is this here: http://www.millenicom.com/ A company that uses Verizon's network for 3G/4G mobile internet, cheaper than most major carriers. Would use it myself but I just don't use that kind of bandwidth out here.
The truck stops all offer wifi for a fee, which is a total rip off and the bandwidth sucks. The McDonald's usually have free wifi, but it too is very slow. If you are in need of good internet OTR get a cellular plan, NOT A PREPAID, like Sprint (That is what I use) with unlimited data. You can add a wifi hotspot feature on it for a fee, or just root your phone and it will work for free and use your current data. I pay $104 a month for unlimited everything through Sprint. Works awesome for Netflix, Facebook and random internet browsing.
Well, most places dont consider it a charity since the person will most likely be spending money. Even the McDonalds in my small town has free wifi for customers, so I figured a place like Love's or Pilot's would definitely have something.
That sucks about the speed. I was actually intending on using it to download/stream movies and skype.
Yeah, unlimited data sounds like the best idea. I'll have to weigh the pro's and con's of sprint and t-mobile since I believe they are the only carriers left that offer unlimited data. I know one of them throttles your data if you go over a certain limit, cant remember if its sprint or t-mobile. What kind of speeds do you get on your sprint data? Can you go to speedtest.com and check it?