Right now, no matter what device you’re reading this on, are you doing so using cell service or Wi-Fi?
As RVers, it can be hard to find a balance of both, right? In today’s age where streaming movies and TV comes nightly, podcasts streamed while you drive… there’s a lot going on for cell phone plans and Wi-Fi routers to handle!
After you vote in the poll, will you please leave a comment and tell us what you most often use when browsing the internet or reading newsletters such as this one if it’s different than how you answered? Thanks!
Currently sitting in my bricks and sticks, before getting ready for work.
I am using my home WiFi reading your work every day I’m not out on the road. Your pages allow me to plan for upcoming trips, and lets me daydream about retirement in the (hopefully near) future. Thank you.
Use WiFi when at home but normally use cell service when on the road (hot spot).
Home Internet using Wi-Fi to my router.
I answered WIFI but my WIFI is provided off our MIFI JetPak through Verizon, so I guess you could say both.
I’m at home, on my WiFi network, which I suppose has an Ethernet cable involved someplace . . .
At home on my cell which is connected to WiFi.
My Hi-Speed (JOKE) internet comes to my house over the air so I am calling it Wi-Fi. We will be getting Fiber later this summer. It will be ten times faster at the lowest tier and $6.00 a month cheaper, I can hardly wait. I am told the main line construction in my area is almost done and after setting up the equipment and testing, the fiber to the home will start to be installed. This is all being done by our Electric COOP.
Using wi-fi provided by a router that is connected to AT&T cellular service.
It’s the routine. First thing every morning, the wife and I, having coffee and tea respectively, read the newsletter on her iPhone and my iPad, using our in home wifi coming from our NetGear Orbi Router/Wifi, with the internet provided via Xfinity cable. We live in southern NJ farm country and have great connectivity.
Home internet using WI-do through my netgear system.
Started out saying Wi-Fi and then realized my Wi-Fi (jet pack) is through Verizon so changed to cell service!
WiFi at home on my phone. Here’s something weird. If I try and load the page that the RVTravel polls are on, the poll does not appear unless I’m connected to WiFi. Yep, if I’m at the out in the wild using cellular, the polls won’t load. I assume it’s my phone doing something weird but I’ve yet to figure it out.
Same for me
Early morning, before my husband gets up, I check email on my cell phone, using a cell booster that runs on our WiFi home internet. Later, when the dogs have had their lap time, I use the WiFi on my laptop.
I am using WIFI Jet Pack though FMCA Sprint. I did have it on my own to $80.00 per month 25 GB unlimited (HA) they slowed us down at about 15. Now we have 1000GB for 49.99 per month no slow downs. Works Great. I can read your storys all day with out any slow downs Love it.
Using the FMCA service,$50 per month. No real limits. Works very well. Occasionally use it in the home base, because MediaCom service is terrible with system slow downs.
I’m using this in the remote mountains of NE Georgia, and speed is good enough for streaming.
Yep – FMCA Wifi hotspot here too. Worth every penny. A year of impeccable service in remote Texas State Parks as park hosts.
On wifi using cell phone at home. But most times using Cell phone alone.
Wifi at home from a cable connected router, cell service reading phone or direct connect to a PC when on the road.
Cell data and polls won’t load
Polls won’t load on cell phone also but. Works on my tablet… Just saying..
Thank you for confirming that I’m not the only one who doesn’t see the poll on my cell phone. I have an android and wonder if that is a contributing factor.
We have one iPad and iphone on ATT and one iPad and iphone on Verizon and the polls load on both
We are on Plamose Rd in Quartzsite and using our cell phones to create ‘hotspots’. My phone supplies my laptop and wifey’s phone supplies her iPad.
Almost always on a Samsung tablet via wifi. The wifi is either a Verizon Jetpack on the road or RV park subscription wifi via the worst provider on the planet.
Cell service.
cable-tv provided internet here at home and cellular internet on the road.
Two months ago, whether at home or in the RV, our answer would have been “Cell Service,” but we got fiber optic service installed at home since then. It is great to watch videos now without worrying about how fast we are burning through data. 🙂
I have fiber optic service on my PC. Limited use of WiFi on my laptop when traveling due to security concerns. I also have Norton anti-virus and VPN service on both. My wife’s cell service is a TracFone flip phone. I have a TracFone Smart phone – we only use cells for emergency use. – and hopefully will have a signal when/if needed.
I used a TracFone flip phone for several years. Recently I bought a TracFone Smart phone and am still learning how to use some of the features. I like being able to continue to buy pre-paid minutes as needed.
Hi Glenda: I had a flip phone also – but out checking Township road flood damage a couple years ago – it fell from a pocket and was probably ground up by a road grader. I do not like the smart phone because of the complexity and weight and overall size. We too like the minute plan – I have over 9,000 and my wife has over 4,000. We renew annually. Emergency use only – no need to carry a computer in my pocket!
I put other because I’m using WiFi from my Verizon MiFi device.
We winter in Phoenix where we have cable wifi. Rest of year traveling using mobile hotspot.
Reading over Frontier fiber optics on my desk top computer. When on the road, we do not take the internet world with us, that is why we leave the house. My flip phone is along for emergencies or to check in with daughter for her concern for mom and dad.
I use a lap top to read this, either the home wifi , CG wifi, or my Jet Pac.
I read at home on WiFi. When traveling it’s a mix of cell and WiFi depending on the service. Many RV parks don’t have decent WiFi.
Today it’s home WiFi, the last 2 weeks would’ve been cell as we were on the road.
I’m in the hospital using their Wifi.
Best wishes, Paul. 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
I am using the Sprint MiFi that we got through FMCA. We generally have good connections and speed with unlimited data.
Wifi connected to my hotspot because the wifi here is really bad.
Visible phone service, unlimited data and hotspot perfect for RV
I am using a cell service mobile wifi – where does that fall?