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

[newbury]

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

The router I use (from this thread) was $26. So $85 seems high to me.

GLI – WiFi for Things

Likely the Shadow GL AR300M.

$40. Amazon.com: GL.iNet GL-AR3M Mini Travel Router with 2dbi external antenna, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-installed, Repeater Bridge, 3Mbps High Performance, 128MB Nand flash, 128MB RAM, OpenVPN, Tor Compatible: Computers & Accessories

I have that and the AR150 $26

Amazon.com: GL.iNet GL-AR15 Mini Travel Router with 2dbi external antenna, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-installed, Repeater Bridge, 15Mbps High Performance, OpenVPN, Tor Compatible, Programmable IoT Gateway: Computers & Accessories
and both work great with my Mobleys.

So I have 2 for less than the cost of 1 of the other referenced here.

Do you have a preference? Not much for reviews on the second one and I need to order one soon because my D Link 655 doesn't do DDWRT.

 

[sodamo]

I like them about equally. Maybe favor the 300 just a bit and there is a 5hz add on in the works.

 

[newbury]

I like them about equally. Maybe favor the 300 just a bit and there is a 5hz add on in the works.

Have you a link for when the 5Hz add on may come out? I noticed on Amazon

No. 5G addon is still under development
By alzhao SELLER on August 21, 2016

and

It is 300mbps 2.4G. 5G will be 430Mbps as least per channel. No need to set to 150mbps for repeater.
By alzhao SELLER on January 11, 2017

but I can't find a solid reference.

/edit - I just saw the reference on GLI – WiFi for Things, but it still reads like vaporware.

 

[sodamo]

No, just the info on the GL site.
For me he price, I'm quite happy with the performance of my vaporware

 

[mark02tj]

just ordered one of these (and a power adapter from Amazon) for my daughter. She's going to be living off campus and this should be a much cheaper alternative to her having to get Comcast cable internet. Everything should be here by Friday.

 

[TractorGuy]

I finally overcame my reluctance to give them my SS number and ordered one from ATT. Ordered on Sunday and got tracking today. It already has a phone number assigned and sent me an email to change the pin so I assume it will arrive activated. Still remains to be seen if I can even get a connection from here but I figured it's worth the gamble. If it doesn't connect I guess I can send it back. I paid the $99 plus tax for the no activation fee and no contract.

Been a Centurylink customer ever since they bought out the local phone company. Had the same number since 1979 and only use it for DSL now. Only get 1.5 Mbps down and .21 up. Have to beg for customer loyalty price every year to get the price down. Currently only paying $32 per month but I know they will try to up it again and probably won't go below the $45 deal they are advertising now. Hacks me off they give people up to 25 Mbps down for that price and want me to pay the same for less. Maybe this is the year I kick em to the curb.

Has anyone purchased this $26 router from the alhao seller on Amazon? Where did it ship from? Did they ship it fast?

 

[jcummins]

I finally overcame my reluctance to give them my SS number and ordered one from ATT. Ordered on Sunday and got tracking today. It already has a phone number assigned and sent me an email to change the pin so I assume it will arrive activated. Still remains to be seen if I can even get a connection from here but I figured it's worth the gamble. If it doesn't connect I guess I can send it back. I paid the $99 plus tax for the no activation fee and no contract.

Been a Centurylink customer ever since they bought out the local phone company. Had the same number since 1979 and only use it for DSL now. Only get 1.5 Mbps down and .21 up. Have to beg for customer loyalty price every year to get the price down. Currently only paying $32 per month but I know they will try to up it again and probably won't go below the $45 deal they are advertising now. Hacks me off they give people up to 25 Mbps down for that price and want me to pay the same for less. Maybe this is the year I kick em to the curb.

Has anyone purchased this $26 router from the alhao seller on Amazon? Where did it ship from? Did they ship it fast?

I order the router yesterday, suppose to be here Wednesday.

As mentioned on this thread, I'm catching the Mobley hanging after a period of time....it needs rebooted overnight. I might put it on a timer to reboot at 2am.

It just so happens, that last Friday we had lightening strike extremely close. Blew three circuit breakers in my barn, and blew up the main router I had in use. Only thing attached to that router was my cat5 network, security cameras, and printer, since I dropped the old internet I had over a month ago, and had been using just my unlimited on my phone for internet. So it's timely to completely redo my network.

 

[TractorGuy]

I order the router yesterday, suppose to be here Wednesday.

As mentioned on this thread, I'm catching the Mobley hanging after a period of time....it needs rebooted overnight. I might put it on a timer to reboot at 2am.

It just so happens, that last Friday we had lightening strike extremely close. Blew three circuit breakers in my barn, and blew up the main router I had in use. Only thing attached to that router was my cat5 network, security cameras, and printer, since I dropped the old internet I had over a month ago, and had been using just my unlimited on my phone for internet. So it's timely to completely redo my network.

Are you a prime customer or is that regular shipping?

Not sure I want or need the router but the extended wifi range may appeal to me if I were to get a wifi security camera at some point.

 

[jcummins]

Prime. Printing I think I could get around without network. Security cameras need it. Plus I'm going to experiment with directtv now and P SV. Direct tv is to expensive.

 

[kcflhrc]

A $26 router will be exactly that, I wouldn't expect much out of it.