Getting Back Out There
Topic 33546 | Page 1
Welcome to the club Matt!
I found a website that offers the big three for cheaper than I can get with my current cell package so I'm excited about that.
Pardon if I'm a bit confused, but Big three? I'm presuming you are referring to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon?
I'm not much of a gamer, but I have used the hot spot function on my cell phone to connect my tablet and laptop all over the country with pretty good success. I use it for online classes, video conferencing, and watching video content. Oh, I have T-Mobile service with unlimited hot spot tethering and don't have any sort of signal boosters, etc. I can count on one hand how many times I've been stopped and needed Internet but insufficient signal for what I needed.
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I used my phone and a tablet in the past as well but I chewed through the data on both my Verizon and Sprint plan in like a week and that was without gaming. I OTR for 2 to 3 months at a time so being stuck watching a show on my phone is less than ideal. Is that your truck in your profile pic? if so BRAVO!
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Is that your truck in your profile pic? if so BRAVO!
My truck? I wish 
I created it playing with the AI image generator built into the Microsoft Edge browser.
I can understand what you mean by maxing out your data plan. That's why I specifically went with plan I have on T-Mobile. It gives me unlimited wi-fi data "tethering" In the recent past, I've had my tablet, a laptop, my x-box 1, and my 49" tv all connected at the simultaneously. I think my highest usage month so far in the past couple of years was just over 100GB with no problems whatsoever. I would surf the web and do work/online classes on my laptop while playing Netflix on the TV.
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Greetings Ladies and gentlemen, I have been off the road for far too long and have that itch to see the Midwest and West Coast. The company I will be driving for doesn't provide internet but is OK with me mounting an antenna and whatnot. I like to game on the road during downtime or when stuck at a Walmart distro(I'm sure that hasn't changed..) I found a website that offers the big three for cheaper than I can get with my current cell package so I'm excited about that. (still digging to make sure it's my best option) To my fellow OTR geeks who like spending an evening running and gunning in various FPS, my question to you all is. Gaming on the road, how has your experience been? Any install suggestions, I would like to be able to pull I have seen the RV community mention things like NAT issues and blah blah,(Pretty sure T-mobile has a static IP) Maybe you have some suggestions and so on. I am so not spending 2500 on a device with all these features I will never use, I have heard good stuff about Nighthawk and Inseego devices.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.