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Wireless Internet
My son is going to "A" School in Pensecola and I was wondering if anyone knows if they have wireless internet there or does he need to purchase an air card for access? Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Zacksmom on
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Sweet!!!
Thank you so very much... We are just trying to plan ahead as to what we have to purchase for him since he is going to be a Grad & Go and want to have all of my ducks in a row... :)
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Permalink Reply by ktssong on
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Can you tell me mor about the air card? Never heard about it. My son is on the other side of the country from us and he has his laptop in his room but no wireless there and he said it's 10 minute walk to the cafe but because he's in his first weeks of A school he doesn't think he can carry a back pack with it in it to there so he doesn't want to spend alot just to use it as little as he does but we got him a webcam to talk to us and I thought the air card could be a way to use his laptop in his room.
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Permalink Reply by Terry (ship 12, div 096) on
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I found out that the base does have wireless, but they charge $6 an hour to use it.
If you go with the right type of wireless internet card, you should be able to get it so that it is password protected and no one can gain access to it unless you give out the password.
My son said that talking to some of the guys there that Sprint, IIRC, has a plan for about $50-60 range but he didn't know how many GB that included, and from what the other guys said it was kind of slow to work. There was also another one around called Clear (?) and that they were suppose to be better and about $40 a month. We were checking with Verizon Wireless as that is who we have for our cells and everything at home. A 4G wireless card with about 10GB was going to run about $80-90 a month. They had another one for about $50-60 that gave about 5GB. The guy said that the 5GB should be plenty even with all the games that our son plays online.
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We live in a very rural area and have the Verizon MiFi Hotspot internet and it is $69.00 a month for 5 GB... As long as he is not downloading a ton of stuff or on You Tube all of the time he will be fine... You can Facebook all day and night long and not run it up over 5 GB as long as you are not downloading and playing games all of the time... So I think that is what we will try to do for him...
I was told that after his PIR we cannot send his laptop with him is that correct? And if so who long before he can have it?
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