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I like Verizon, but their pricing seems insane!

HomeFusion customers can expect rates of five to 12 Mbps and upload rates of two to five Mbps, in line with your average DSL or low-end cable Internet connection. The customer is responsible for purchasing a $200 antenna which needs to be professionally installed, and the package includes a wireless router capable of connecting four wired and 20 wireless devices to the network. You must sign a two-year agreement.

Verizon doesn’t give you much data to work with, so watch what you download or stream: 10GB of data will cost you $60 every month, 20GB, $90, and 30GB, $120. For every gigabyte you go over these limits, Verizon will zap you an extra $10.
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mike6875, on 02 May 2012 - 04:29 PM, said:

I see your point, but I do know several people using those 3G prepaid dongles as their main Internet connection FWIW. So this may be of value to them.

I did that for about six months with T-Mobile's '4G Hot Spot'. When it worked, it worked well, though there were lots of glitches and hiccups, bridging it to may LAN.

The problem comes in with the data caps and overages. They were murder. Unfortunately, when I needed more data than average (i.e. configure and update a computer, everything patches), it could blow through the allotment in a day or two. Especially if there was work (and there was), and somebody made bloody big binary files and checked changes to them into svn every day.

T-Mobile elected to punish subscribers for 'going over' with 2G speeds (which was like dial up MODEM on a good day) for the remainder of the billing cycle, with no way to buy more 'fast' bits, even with weeks before the next billing cycle. With that two weeks of terrible bandwidth to look forward to, I aborted the experiment and switched back to cable. If you were on a lower bandwidth plan, you could 'upgrade' to the faster plan, to get more data, but I was at the highest plan, and using it up meant getting throttled practically to death. A means of calling them up or logging in and paying for extra data on an 'as needed' basis would have probably kept me as a full-time subscriber.

10GB seems like a lot, but it's easy to use it up, even being VERY conservative.

I dialed it back to 2GB plan and keep the hot spot as 'backup' and travel, now, while my new 'cable modem' does the heavy lifting.

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Nice way to tack on your opinion and pass it off as fact there author.

I suspect Verizon wants people off their 2G network. That will ONLY work, if they can replace their current 2G network with 4g. THEN they could use the 700Mhz spectrum for future growth. They gave you a quick and dirty plan, then you tacked on whatever you felt like. That is some very dirty journalism there.

I have a Verizon phone with a 4G-LTE connection. My connection is using a 10.x.y.z IP address ALWAYS.
That's a NAT folks. Non-routable private IPs.
I wonder whether or not they are also using address partitioning (so you cannot ping another address on the same subnet).
Assuming the same hold true for these Fusion devices, it will be a business non-starter for ANYONE wanting to use inbound VPN services.
In my case, outbound PPTP VPN does not work, but L2TP usually does.

Assuming what I have discovered on several Verizon 4G phones that do this is true...
The technology barriers (not pricing) alone makes this a bad idea unless the only thing you plan to do is web surf and stream movies (which will cost a lot).

I have no idea what you are trying to communicate. Please speak English.

aaronj2906, on 02 May 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:

Is this a late April Fools Day gag?

Who in their right mind would purchase this "service"? My local cable company provides a solid, reliable high-speed internet service for $30 per month (with a one-time installation fee of $60). It always works, and I have no concern of exceeding a data allotment.

Get a clue Verizon!!!

edoswald, on 02 May 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

I have to agree.. for those who have no hard line options, and currently depend on a 3G or even 4G hotspot, this will be cheaper for them.

Aside from the pricing, that still means no broadband service to rural America... Aside from snail DSL (can't upgrade to the speedier service, cause AT&T also doesn't care much for the rural users) the only other options are the particular pricey and very limited satellite... or dial-up... Home networking on Satellite is a non-starter (download limits)... basically home networking can be accomplished if you do next to nothing)... (sigh) Verizon doesn't even cover this area of west Central IL at all, cause US Cellular has a strangle hold, best I can do with verizon is an extended data plan (no 3g).

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The people that would buy this is rural people who have no access to cable internet and DSL is a slow 1.5 mbps. Most rural carriers don't offer much, but with this 4g is available in some areas and will make a major difference.