Cheap $20 a month Stand Alone Unlimited Rural Internet through AT&T Wireless

[jcummins]

I have a Q-See 4 camera system that I can monitor anywhere from my smartphone hooked up through my Asus router connected to the Mobley. The Nest stuff is over priced and over rated.

Fairly sure you wouldn't have a public IP with the Mobley....so how does the non static IP work, given what aeblank posted above?

 

[coldsteelva]

Alfred is the best and cheapest method for occasional security monitoring - check it out on the App stores. It re-uses your old smartphone(s) wifi and camera ability and goes OUT through the Mobley to a server allowing you to access the video, push-to-talk (through phone speaker), set up motion detector alerting and vid capture from anywhere you have internet access and FREE.

 

[BigBlue1]

Fairly sure you wouldn't have a public IP with the Mobley....so how does the non static IP work, given what aeblank posted above?

The IP address of every WAN connection device (cable modem, hotspot like Mobley, DSL router, etc.) is by definition public. It has to be to allow communication with other things on the Internet. The only non-public IP addresses are those of client devices on your LAN behind your router (like a camera, PC, laptop, wifi phone, etc.). Those that start 192.x or 168.x or 10.x are local. So a Mobley has a 'public' IP address. However, what it does not have is a dedicated static IP address. That means that the Mobley's IP address is subject to change randomly. Could happen at reboot. Could happen at IP lease expiration time. Also coming into play is whether or not traffic is routeable to or through a device. Sometimes routing or firewalls block traffic. But that's another entire can of worms. And a camera on your local network behind your router usually does not have a public IP address. That means when you're out and about (off your network) and you want to connect to the camera with your phone app you cannot do so directly. Your camera will have to reach out to a remote server and so will your phone in order to make a bridge between the two.

Public IP - other things on the internet can see the address and try to talk to it
Static IP - always the same IP assigned to your device
DNS - association between a human-readable hostname and an IP addresss (TractorByNet.com | Compact tractor forums, news, reviews, information. = 208.117.3.12)
Dynamic DNS - allows devices with non-static IPs to be dynamically re-mapped (to a given DNS hostname) as the device's IP changes (somename.com = 144.20.111.20 today and 184.34.21.34 tomorrow)

Rob

 

[TractorGuy]

So they finally posted my first bill online and it has an extra $20 charge for "changes to plan". It does have a line reading it has the $20 plan charge and a $20 charge for July 26 - August 26. Chat guy Niel insisted that was how they did it and it could not be overridden. He claimed no supervisor was available to discuss any further. Has anyone else been charged for their 2nd month on the first bill?

 

[kcflhrc]

Fairly sure you wouldn't have a public IP with the Mobley....so how does the non static IP work, given what aeblank posted above?

I guess it works the same way my Honeywell wifi thermostat works.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

So they finally posted my first bill online and it has an extra $20 charge for "changes to plan". It does have a line reading it has the $20 plan charge and a $20 charge for July 26 - August 26. Chat guy Niel insisted that was how they did it and it could not be overridden. He claimed no supervisor was available to discuss any further. Has anyone else been charged for their 2nd month on the first bill?

Is it, payment in advance unless you are on a 2 year contract?

 

[TractorGuy]

Is it, payment in advance unless you are on a 2 year contract?

Everyone discussing this claims it is a post pay plan. If I have to pay a month in advance it becomes a prepaid plan. The bill outline would seem to indicate I am paying for the month used and a month in advance but I haven't heard of anyone else saying this was how they were charged. I've seen a lot of discussion about activation fees that got waived. My bill also shows a $25 activation fee but has a -$25 credit under that so no activation fee on mine.

 

[TXHF]

I chatted with an AT&T person regarding this Mobley plan. I was told that if I was an AT&T customer, I could add it to my existing data plan for $10 a month. I am not an AT&T customer so she told me I would have to buy their DataConnect plan @ $20/mo for 1GB, $30/mo for 3GB or $60/mo for unlimited. Did they catch on and change policies for new customers? Also, Best Buy no longer sells them according to their web site.

On the ZTE Mobley site, I found this:

ZTE Mobley turns most vehicles 1996 and newer into mobile Hotspots. Just plug the device into your vehicle's OBD-II port and your Hotspot is live.** Add the device to Mobile Share Value/Mobile Data plan for an access charge of $10. Or, you can connect with a DataConnect plan with monthly charges of $20 for 1GB or $30 for 3GB.
**Services provided by AT&T Mobility. Coverage and services not available everywhere.

I cannot find anywhere that states $20/mo unlimited. Last, I just tried to buy one on AT&T Wireless site and the option states they are "Out of stock on-line"

When was the last time one of you purchased one AND got unlimited for $20? Are you also an existing AT&T customer?

 

[TractorGuy]

I chatted with an AT&T person regarding this Mobley plan. I was told that if I was an AT&T customer, I could add it to my existing data plan for $10 a month. I am not an AT&T customer so she told me I would have to buy their DataConnect plan @ $20/mo for 1GB, $30/mo for 3GB or $60/mo for unlimited. Did they catch on and change policies for new customers? Also, Best Buy no longer sells them according to their web site.

On the ZTE Mobley site, I found this:


I cannot find anywhere that states $20/mo unlimited. Last, I just tried to buy one on AT&T Wireless site and the option states they are "Out of stock on-line"

When was the last time one of you purchased one AND got unlimited for $20? Are you also an existing AT&T customer?

 

[coldsteelva]

I was already an ATT customer due to my wireless home phone device and the 2 times I ordered a Mobley, no contract, no activation, I paid $99+tax and had them within 5 days. The data plan is selected when you order direct through ATT website. The third party reseller device then needing activation with ATT seems to cause the most grief for the script readers at ATT that answer the phones.


ETA: everyone needs to use the term CONNECTED CAR UNLIMITED. - That should help the weenies figure out what you're talking about - as soon as you say "hotspot" they think it's the made for home use style which has NO unlimited option