cell phone booster

Crusty · 05-09-2017, 02:14 PM

wifi,

The WiFi at my home is protected via WPA2. The phone asked me for the access key the first time I tried to use it and again whenever I change it. Otherwise it remembers. I have also entered the access keys of several relatives' and friends' WiFi routers. as well as the name of an unprotected network at one friend's home (I've urged him to add a password).

The caveat on their website may refer to connecting to public hot-spots. The phone can't connect to a protected one unless you know the password. Also, a lot of public hot-spots will run without a password, but require you to click an acknowledgement that you won't do anything illegal, nor sue them.

They have added a lot of detail to their website since I signed up. I plan to spend some time there out of curiosity. There are a lot of neat things about this phone I haven't discovered yet.

Hope this is useful,
Crusty

wifi · 05-09-2017, 06:51 PM

That makes a lot more sense, basically, I can cover myself at home and work and many other places I have the security key.

One other question, if you buy some gig(s) of data and add a second phone to the account, is the data shared, or is it per phone ?

Crusty · 05-10-2017, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by wifi

One other question, if you buy some gig(s) of data and add a second phone to the account, is the data shared, or is it per phone ?

They didn't have a group plan when I signed up. Investigating, I find that I can consolidate the family's phones into a single account with a shared data pool. They also knock off $5 / month for the 2nd through 6th phone.

Except for billing convenience (and the $5 discount), there's not much advantage. You establish your "data budget" (say 3 gigabytes) and prepay for that amount. At the end of the month, they either bill you for any excess you use (@ $10 / gigabyte) or refund any amount you didn't use. Whether individual plans or a group plan, it's a wash; You pay for the amount of data used.

One nice feature of the group plan though, as the "owner" you can restrict usage by the sub-accounts.

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05-09-2017, 02:14 PM	#1
Crusty Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Columbus OH / Smiths Pt Posts: 128 Thanks: 175 Thanked 158 Times in 57 Posts	wifi, The WiFi at my home is protected via WPA2. The phone asked me for the access key the first time I tried to use it and again whenever I change it. Otherwise it remembers. I have also entered the access keys of several relatives' and friends' WiFi routers. as well as the name of an unprotected network at one friend's home (I've urged him to add a password). The caveat on their website may refer to connecting to public hot-spots. The phone can't connect to a protected one unless you know the password. Also, a lot of public hot-spots will run without a password, but require you to click an acknowledgement that you won't do anything illegal, nor sue them. They have added a lot of detail to their website since I signed up. I plan to spend some time there out of curiosity. There are a lot of neat things about this phone I haven't discovered yet. Hope this is useful, Crusty

05-09-2017, 06:51 PM	#2
wifi Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Lakes Region Posts: 1,321 Thanks: 282 Thanked 287 Times in 169 Posts	That makes a lot more sense, basically, I can cover myself at home and work and many other places I have the security key. One other question, if you buy some gig(s) of data and add a second phone to the account, is the data shared, or is it per phone ?