Re: Newsgroups With Air Card?
- From: Larry <noone@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:43:34 +0000
"Bob & Nan" <doubleday@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:oeXNi.18371$ya1.11338@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Thinking about getting an Air Card and dropping the old landline
connection because of the amount of traveling we do. Know I'll have
to keep some kind of service for the email addresses etc. How do you
access these newsgroups when using an Air Card and direct connecting??
Thanks for any info provided.
Although it's done all over, accessing an NNTP server over VZW's crappy
Aircards is against their user agreement. The agreement, quoted under
this message because they make it so hard to find on their webpages, says
you may look at spam web pages, do email and connect to a company
intranet, if you have one, ONLY! All other uses are SPECIFICALLY
forbidden by the agreement. No uploading, downloading, streaming radio
or TV, and, obviously, no Skype or other VoIP to bypass Verizon's awful
charges.
"Unlimited", a nebulous term that means something TOTALLY different to
buyers/customer and company bureaucrats, means 5GB/month OR ELSE we cut
you off for a year and expect you to pay the termination fees. **it
happens.
Notice the curious statement that forbids you to use VZW's Broadband as a
replacement for traditional broadband internet service, at home for
instance. You're supposed to NOT use what you paid $60/month for any
place you can connect your laptop to wifi or Ethernet...or where you have
in the past.
It's all about kilobytes. Sellular used to sell data by the kilobyte and
has never gotten over people wanting gigabytes, much less megabytes.
I threw a wrench into the gears the other day. I'm a paying subscriber
to AT&T's MobiTV for PC broadband TV. (http://att.mobitv.com/) It says
I can download songs I buy that are legally acquired, but doesn't say I
can download TV signals I legally pay for. "Can I watch MobiTV on a
Verizon Aircard from a service I subscribe to?" Alltel didn't care as
long as I bought their $25/mo unlimited data link to my Moto E815
bluetooth phone I could connect the laptop to. Verizon wouldn't
answer....(c; I take that as a "NO!"
Larry
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Here's a copy for you:
"UNLIMITED DATA PLANS AND FEATURES
Unlimited Data Plans and Features (such as NationalAccess,
BroadbandAccess, Push to Talk, and certain VZEmail services) may ONLY be
used with wireless devices for the following purposes: (i) Internet
browsing; (ii) email; and (iii) intranet access (including access to
corporate intranets, email, and individual productivity applications like
customer relationship management, sales force, and field service
automation). (ALL ENCOMPASSING STATEMENT)>>>>>The Unlimited Data Plans
and Features MAY NOT be used for any other purpose.<<<<<< Examples of
prohibited uses include, without limitation, the following: (i)
continuous uploading, downloading or streaming of audio or video
programming or games; (ii) server devices or host computer applications,
including, but not limited to, Web camera posts or broadcasts, automatic
data feeds, automated machine?to?machine connections or peer?to?peer
(P2P) file sharing;
*****************************NO SUBSTITUTING**************************
or (iii) as a substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated data
connections.
**********************************************************************
This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the
Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate
intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing
services and/or redirecting television signals for viewing on laptops is
prohibited. A person engaged in prohibited uses, continuously for one
hour, could typically use 100 to 200 MBs, or, if engaged in prohibited
uses for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, could use more than 5 GBs in a
month.
For individual use only and not for resale. We reserve the right to
protect our network from harm, which may impact legitimate data flows. We
reserve the right to limit throughput or amount of data transferred, and
to deny or terminate service, without notice, to anyone we believe is
using an Unlimited Data Plan or Feature in any manner prohibited above or
whose usage adversely impacts our network or service levels. Anyone using
more than 5 GB per line in a given month is presumed to be using the
service in a manner prohibited above, and we reserve the right to
immediately terminate the service of any such person without notice. We
also reserve the right to terminate service upon expiration of Customer
Agreement term..."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This aside, VZW's aircard does work great with MobiTV's broadband TV and
Skype on a laptop...(c; Hey! MobiTV's broadband runs in FIREFOX!
That's a BROWSER!
.
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