Internet for RVers in the USA

Just read a post from my blog buddy Rene about using wireless internet while on the road.

Which reminded me that I never showed you what was in this box we had delivered to Coulee Playland RV Resort, our first stop after crossing from Canada into the USA.

We got this:

It's a wireless USB stick from a company called Millenicom. We went with these guys cause they had the best plan for us. Random stuff about our Millenicom service:

• the USB stick was $99 dollars
• the plan is $70/month for unlimited use, but you prepay one month in advance
• our plan uses Sprint - great coverage across the USA
• there is no contract and no taxes
• you turn your service off when you leave the USA and then turn it back on when you return the following winter, just don't lose your USB stick
• when you first purchase the USB stick, it has to be shipped to an American address - that's why we had it sent to our first US rv stop instead of our home address in BC
• had to call their billing folks once and the tech line once and both employees were efficient and friendly
• I can use the internet while My Fella is driving JohnnyDisco down the interstate  :)

Our internet plan isn't cheap but the convenience is worth it. So far we're totally satisfied with Millenicom, but I'll definitely let you know if that changes...

Comments

[Don]

Hi Kelsi, you always ask me how my leg is doing after being hit by a car, well 2 days ago I was prepped in the hospital, given medication, in a wheel chair in hospital garb, waiting to go to the operating room to get my bone reinforcing plates surgically removed and I was told to go home because there was no bed for me! This is the 2nd time I was sent home without an operation. That's the news from North Okanagan.

[kelsi]

Mr P - the US health care system is a nightmare for many, and our Canadian system is really starting to show some cracks as well.
Mexico is looking better and better all the time - read this blog post if you get a chance.

http://steveinmexico.blogspot.com/2012/01/tossing-my-pills.html

[Don]

I read his blog, he is exactly right, we are paying (directly or thru our taxes) a way too much for our medical. It is $6,000 for each man woman and child per year in Canada. I have already paid in today's money about $350,000 in my lifetime!