On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:53 PM, wren wrote: > Excellent info, Bruce and Dan. Many thanks. I'm grasping how this > works much more clearly now. > > Dan - that Mifi thing is the way we're going now. So glad you posted > that. I went back to Verizon's site and read about it - then called > their sales dept on the phone. Turns out the stuff they list on the > site as possible contracts vs pre-paid accounts online isn't telling > the whole story clearly. I'm wrong (thankfully!) about the $350 fee if > breaking the contract early, too. The deal is this: > > The $59.99 price is available as a month-to-month, no contract deal; a > 1 yr contract, or a 2 yr contract. > > The mifi device costs $49 (after rebate) if you buy the 2 yr contract; > $119 after rebate for 1 yr contract; $269 with no contract. > > If you break contract early, say on the 2 yr deal, you are then > charged the difference for the price of the Mifi device, or $175, less > $5 a month for every month you've had service. They aren't "cheating" > a person as much as I initially thought. I could live with this. > > There is a $35 activation fee for any account, however. > > We're going to look at it more closely yet - but I think this is the > route we'll go. We could even go on vacation, or travel on a weekend, > and take our broadband/wifi with us! How cool is that? > > I would NOT have grasped any of this had you not all chimed in - so > thank you very much. > > My only remaining question is - with the mifi in place, am I good to > connect with only my existing Belkin Wireless G+ card? And that usb > modem that Bruce mentioned in another post - would that also allow us > to connect another computer (mac or - otherwise -) to the wifi? I > think it will - but I want to make sure I understand. > I use my G cards and USBn dongles to connect to the same source. Tiger to Snow Leopard PPC and Intel.
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