strong, I am looking for a cable/antenna booster for wireless service that could be used in laptop and pc. I seen some and E-mailed to some companies but so far no response, that is why i am posting these problem here, hope someone could advice me which cable/antenna do i have to buy, there are sooo many kinds, styles and prices there are from 30$ to even 2000$ I am looking for a good one and affordable, no more than 100$ This is the second time I began writing this post I lost signal twice, yesterday only 5 miniutes left to Dl a free set I lost signal too, this is so frustrating!!!! HELP

I have a Verizon wireless broadband USB thing. Works Great! Up north have a big signal. At home we need a $30 antenna and get it fine. They sell it at their site. I take it anywhere in the country. Can't do that with the DSL stuff. It's so small, just a normal dongle. They have a new one, will work 5 devices in the house, but I've been told that it wouldn't work at my home, so going to stick with this one. 5 gbs a month for $59, comes to about $70 with taxes. I leave it on all day and use the heck out of it. Have never gone over the 5 gigs. Grand daughter does every month. Verizon can check your exact location and tell you if you can get the signal. Visit a store or call them. I can't tell you how much I like this thing. Highly recommend it.

I have HughesNet and I agree it is not very good but is the only thing available to us. It is 45 dollars a month for 200 MB per day, which is not very much considering how graphic intensive web sites are today. I can say we have never lost our HughesNet signal even during terrible snow storms. We are in a dead zone and do not receive a strong cell phone signal so that is out for us. HughesNet is expensive and the data limit is frustrating but it is a very strong signal. We have had it for 3 years now and by watching our data limit, we have only gone over a few times and then we can still work online, just slower.

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by danababes 28 Apr 2011

My parents have wireless internet too and were limited to 300M per MONTH. Like you say, sites are graphics intensive and as they use Vista which seems to update too often (lol) they were constantly running out of internet megs. They just dont understand how small 300/mth is. The provider now allows one gig per month, and they still went over (due to him buying and DL'g MS office - so perhaps a once-off over-usage for them from now on).

by barba 29 Apr 2011

HughesNet does offer 1 complimentary token each month so if you do go over one day, you can use the token and get back up to speed. YES, the updates are what has always put us over! They offer unlimited between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. (I think)but I do not leave my computer on all the time and am not up then. 200 MB per day is 6 GB per month which is okay but the unlimited broadbands are much better. LOL

Hughes Net is a bad plan.... I'll send you a PM because my answer was WAY too long!!

In short - we use our cell phones with a piece of software that cost $30. If anyone else wants to know what we do, please let me know and I'll send the answer to you as well.... It was just way too long to post here.

K

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by mary51 28 Apr 2011

Thank you!!! What I understood you use your phone line to get internet? Our problem is we do not have phone line, it is wireless too.

This site has information that might help you. Hughes.net when I checked it a couple years ago was very expensive.

Many people use Hughesnet for wireless service. You might try checking with them or other carriers to see if it would be better for you.

Marcelle

Sorry I do not have an answer to your problem and hope you get it sorted out. What I want to know is how do Google know so fast what is being posted and then post the adds on the right to correspond with our questions? That baffles me!

Looks like Shirlene may have your answer! Not surprised! Hope all does work out for you!
Dawn

I really don't know how to help you - but I see an ad right next to this posting - wifi-link.com - maybe that could be something to look into.

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by mary51 28 Apr 2011

Thank you!