Gozit

Screencap from my iPhone 6 on Rogers LTE

not2old

somehow I need to do more digging. I will PM to discuss this & no,'I will not buy an 'IPhone 6'. I simply need a device (phone) that will tether to my laptop via a cable or wi-fi with good speed as well as minimum 5GB/mth, which is not too much to ask for.

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As for cable, right now I have a deal with Rogers cable, its Digital+ (no contract) good for the next 24 mths at $57.05/mth tax included , gives us 200+ channels with a small digital box from them.

We have one 10 year old clunker glass tube TV (because her doesn't like LCD/LED or plasma).

Its just the internet & Bell land line, which I'm looking for a sweet combo deal for the cell phone (with internet tethering to my laptop) and to get rid of Bell & the WIND stick.

Bell & internet with tax basic basic no frills is costing me ~$77/mth.

scrubbedexpat091

I've done it a couple of times. Once when we were on a small island off Vancouver Island and the people we were staying with only had very limited satellite internet and would not let us use it.

And a few times at home when Shaw has gone down.

Overall it wasn't bad for basic stuff like email, and surfing the net, but it really didn't handle videos well, but it wasn't an issue as with only 500MB a month of data on the phone, don't want to be watching videos anyhow.

I would not want to use it as my primary internet source as it would be more expensive then Shaw in the long run. Would be nice if in the future we only had to have 1 internet provider for both phone and home for a reasonable price.

Novocastrian

Can't you just take the battery out of your cell phone if it tries to escape?

caretaker

Yes, that's what you have to do.
Edit: Oh ha ha, I get it, tethering, doh. As with a computer sometimes you just have to unplug it. Ho ho tethering, good one.

scrubbedexpat091

Looking back the last 6 months we have used anywhere from 8GB to 80GB in a given month, so not sure any cell company could provide that range of data for a reasonable price....

Novocastrian

It's a shame what technology has done to the English language. I don't even have a dumb-phone, if that's what you call those thingies that people can call you on wherever you are and when you don't want them to.

But if I had one and it tried to escape, I'd just let it.

calman014

NOT2OLD: Some Android phones also allow tethering so it doesn't have to be an iPhone.

PS: Also Windows phones (Lumia) allow it also.

not2old

calman014 @ post #23 thanks for that

What is the basic type (suggestion please) lowest cost phone that I can go with to tether to my laptop?

Brand & model?

Gozit

Okay sounds good. I'll be in touch But just to clarify, nowhere did I suggest that you buy an iPhone 6. I only mentioned it because that's the device i'm using, just in case you wanted to put it in perspective. If I were you i'd buy the Nexus 5 from google outright for $349.
Dingding. False. I'm tethering right now just to test it and its working.

Yeah i'd be rid of bell faster than a racecar if I were you. Same with wind but just for the slooow speeds. You can port your Bell land line number into a cell phone so that helps.

Gozit

I know i'm not calman, but...
Like I said in my other post, i'd suggest the Nexus 5, and know someone else on here who would vouch for it. But i'll elaborate:

https://play.google.com/store/device...ack_16gb&hl=en

Theres the link. Basically its an unlocked android smartphone from Google, with all the trimmings and 4G LTE speeds. No contract included with it, and since its unlocked you can switch providers as you please, ie if a better deal comes round you can switch.

not2old

Thanks Gozit, but at that price I almost choked.

work in progress ....

Gozit

Oh That's considered cheap for a new smartphone with LTE that doesn't cause constant frustration with its lagging, as the cheap $100 android phones will do. And at that they probably don't have enough power to tether and/or have it disabled in the software

scrubbedexpat091

Our 124 andriod while unable to handle photos and videos, does everything well and is actually pretty good for what it cost. Also allows tethering.

My GF's iphone on the other hand is sitting in a box with the rest of the junk electronics. Granted its not the newest model and 3 years old, but its a POS and stopped working, well it works as a phone but nothing else will work on it.

She hated it at first then realized everything she uses it for, the iphone was way too much phone for her needs.


I hate apple products so i am slowly getting her away from them.

calman014

Look at AMAZON.CA... sure you will see something there, probably from Samsung or Huawei.