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I would say the connectivity will not be good enough to stay connected especially while driving. If it is business best thing to do is find a place with strong signal and park it. Otherwise there will be issues.
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Joined: Feb 2020
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From: Raleigh NC
Does anyone use the Ford Connect hot spot on their truck via ATT? I figure for only $20/month we are going to hook it up and see how it does. The bad thing is our cell phones are also ATT... it would be nice if we could choose another service provider for the Ford Connect, this way I could keep our ATT phones and then add Verizon on the Ford Connect... that would give us 2 different options at the same time and would likely increase the chance of having signal more often.
It is a very handy feature to have when I travel the backroads and rural parts of Eastern North Carolina.
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Joined: May 2021
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From: Uh oh, CA
I opted in for the Ford Connect even though I have unlimited data on my Verizon cell phone. Why? After the free Ford Connect trial ended they kept hounding me to subscribe. I talked them down to $15 for month so now I can go back and forth between two providers if I need to. Plus its a company truck and they agreed to pay the $15 monthly charge. When connecting my PC, for whatever reason, I do find the Ford Connect speeds to be faster than tethering to my cell phone. Plus, when the kids are riding with me (not all of them have data on their phones) they can easily hook onto the Ford Connect and I don't have to worry about their tether to my phone draining my phone battery.
It is a very handy feature to have when I travel the backroads and rural parts of Eastern North Carolina.
It is a very handy feature to have when I travel the backroads and rural parts of Eastern North Carolina.
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Joined: Jun 2021
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I have always heard that dedicated "hotspots" will always have better signal than a phone. I don't know how true this is, but it seems to make sense given that a phone is first off smaller than most hotspots as well as there are many other features packed into a phone than just a dedicated hotspot, meaning the radios and antennas in the hotspots are better/bigger/stronger than the ones in a phone because there is just more room to accommodate them. Either way, it's good to hear from someone who actually uses it, and it sounds like you like it. It would be nice though if I could choose to connect Verizon to it though since my phones are ATT. What kind of range is on the hotspot? I have a Victron Cerbo GX in my camper that I like to keep connected to the internet and when on the road is the hardest time. The Cerbo device would be approximately 22 feet from the rear cab of the truck so I'm wondering how well the device would pick up from that range.
We also use an external antenna on our jet pack both in the truck and the RV for additional range and there have been times when we can get internet to work, but no cell service.
Just a note - the so called unlimited plans are slowed WAY down once you reach your plans data amount. My "Unlimited" Verizon plan is 30 meg and you can stream video but will eat up 30 meg pretty fast and once you hit 30 meg, you can basically just email and search. There are grandfathered truly unlimited plans from Verizon & ATT, but I believe you had to of had that type of plan prior to 2019. You can find a lot of this info on RV forums where full time RVer's are always trying to figure out internet.
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