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Originally Posted by brk-lnt
Do you not have a TV at home you can try the HDMI connection with?
You'll probably get a decent enough image on a 22" screen. The 3G coverage at the lake is very sporadic, in my experience over the last 6 years with a Verizon 3G card and various smart phones.
Also, your unlimited 3G isn't *really* unlimited. You WILL get hassled if you start going over 5GB/month regularly, which can include them throttling your download speed (sure, you can still download "unlimited" amounts of data, you're just doing it a dial-up speeds). For example, this past weekend was HORRIBLE for me with Verizon (my iPhone4, wife's 4S and my 3G/4G USB card all got horrible throughput all weekend).
It might be easier to look into getting TV shows via torrents or whatever and just watching TV that way.
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I have tried the HDMI connection to a larger TV. It works well with some content (youtube, Crackle, etc.), but I don't own a slingbox yet. I hear great things about slingbox when you have a wifi connection, but I'm told they lower the image quality with the lower bandwidth (3G) connections. So not knowing when (or if ever) Verizon will bring 4G LTE to the lake, I'd like to know how a slingbox will do over a 3G connection when connected to a larger screen.
Thanks for reminding me that Verizon will throttle people. I'm sure they will be more aggressive about this now that they are trying to get people to give up their unlimited data plans.
