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Originally Posted by Karen2012
Does anyone know of a reasonable wifi provider? We have a part time home, not willing to do a bundle with tv and phone. Too expensive for the months we aren't there. We have only basic tv and basic land line phone . Don't want dial up from villages.net
When we visit I use a 3G toggle for my laptop and pay as we go service
from Virgin Mobile which works very well for us. They tell me they don't provide 4G for our area. A month of service runs $30. But we have an issue.....someone who wants to rent our villa doesn't have a laptop - wants to use their tablet (IPOD) and the tablets don't have
a port to install the toggle or we would provide one for them (They run $20)
so I can see us losing our ability to rent the unit for the one month we rent it out all year now and in the future as folks bring tablets instead of laptops with them. I would like to find a wifi provider that you can get a good signal from for no more than $10-$15 a month. Thanks.
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I have NO idea if this would work. If a neighbor has internet would they allow you to pay for a wireless router to be placed as close as possible to your home. You would select the password only to be used by your renters. You would also pay them a fee for hosting to offset the electric cost and space used and that it might (I have no idea) slow down their own system. How well such a device would work would depend on the exact location of the user. I think you would have the option of installing a stronger or directional antenna on the router and a repeater within your unit to increase the range of the signal. I also have no idea if this would violate any agreement the neighbor has with the internet provider.