I use my phone as a hotspot, and have a 20gb plan with Verizon. With that and my wife's phone, we're right at $200/mo
your experiences with WI-FI at Pilot, Flying J and TA truck stops?
Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by RollOn33, Jul 3, 2013.
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I have a regular phone (non smart phone) $35 a month and have a hotspot plan here http://millenicom.com/plans/#hotspot-plan. The hotspot plan cost $69.99 a month and I use it with a tablet, you get 20gb a month using a Verizon Mifi and using Verizon's network. I use it mainly for Skype with family and internet, Skype uses about 500mb an hour. So far i am extremely happy with the internet coverage, customer service with this company is poor but all in all I am very happy to be able to see my family via Skype. I get 4g service most of the time and when I get 3g Skype still works well.
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Walk to McDonald s across the street
Free ac
Free WiFi
Free people watching
Get a HIC and be the old creepy guy in the corner all day like me -
I have a years subscription to the Pilot/Flying J network. I used to use T-mobile when it was unlimited data per month. When they stopped that my monthly costs skyrocketed to twice what the yearly fee I'm paying now is. Overall I rate it a "B"....when it works it works pretty well; when it's glitchy I can't deal with it. Different locations have different reliability, but overall it's OK. And a helluva lot cheaper.
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I get pilot / j's by the month ( under 20 dollars ) for my mini laptop .
The quality depends on where you park , close and line of site are the key , and I can go inside
if need be .
I don't have a cool hip type phone and more often than not I'm parked at thee above and use it mostly for " entertainment " so it works for me.
I give it a B if I can pick the signal up in the truck , a C - if I have to walk inside lol. -
I've tried the truck stop wifi a couple of times when I didn't have a solid signal on my phone. Both times I was so frustrated with the slow speed that I wound up going to sleep early rather than deal with it.
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The truckstop wifi is garbage I agree. I would go with Verizon but is expensive.
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why pay for wifi service, that in most cases at pfj, DOES NOT WORK. GO visit their fb page and see how many hundreds of complaints there is over the years, since they merged.
Love my Verizon Jet Pak WIFI. Have internet, where ever I have a cell signal, and its secured. No one can use my connection, unless they are a good hacker.
Probly the main reason the Wi-Fi at pfj, sucks, is that they only have so much bandwidth at each location, so when you get a few drivers watching online movies, or playing games, the signal strength is gonna suck. -
I've worked at a PFJ for several years and I can tell you that you're better off with a cell phone or hot spot. Our wifi router continuously goes out about once a month for a couple days at a time and I wouldn't pay for it if it isn't guaranteed that I'd get it at every stop.
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