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[ohiofarmer 3,265]

 Ok, guys, so here's the deal. I am a flip phone guy.I was driving an 8 year old military grade Verizon that the battery would last forever.  Daughter drops her Smart Phone off the bridge and no, it is not a Timex watch.  [Old guys will get it]     The long story short is our two phones arrived without sim cards because the sim cards would be needed where our daughter is [allegedly]  She got her phone set up with a temporary number because her phone was broken. Meanwhile , the train was coming down the track in that we NEEDED those cards in order to get our stuff done to switch carriers and avoid another month of billing.  We used to have 4 devices --3 phones and a hotspot. Now we can use the phones as a hotspot, and that is how my communications with Redsquare is now happening. 

  When my daughter forgot or neglected to confirm she had sent the cards, I about blew a gasket. Pretty sure the wife made sure I had no opportunity to tell my daughter what I thought about all this. These kids think that everything works easily on the internet. I knew better. As it was, we had to visit the phone store 3 times and she had to visit at her end 3 times.  We also spent an hour with tech support of our own phone company  because they never changed our old E-mail account to the new address.  It would have been less stressful to go to Michigan and do it all at one location. It took at least a half hour with two people at her end to set the proper strength password after following all of their previous instructions to the letter. So if this all works  We will be able to stream netflix free and have more [unlimited] data at less cost

 

 Anyway, if you are reading this, it Means it is working. I hate surfing on the phone. without a keyboard and a mouse and big screen, just forget it.  i cannot post replies from my phone anyway,  because it has a new E-mail address to keep Mrs Farmers and my stuff separate. Also, an android phone on Google makes it almost impossible to get where I want to go. it seems that they just want to say no to drudge and mis-direct away from that site. I have cracked the code somewhat, but it still takes a lot of steps..

Edited February 7, 2019 by ohiofarmer

[ebinmaine 67,271]

I'm reading it. You made it.

 

4 minutes ago, ohiofarmer said:

surfing on the phone. without a keyboard and a mouse and big screen....

 

I feel your pain there. I made a conscious decision back almost a year ago to get rid of my home hard-wired internet because it was costing me $86 per month for something I was barely using.

We had already had no cable for quite a while before that.

 

I switched to Verizon and I was very happy with the changeover. I now have the capability of tethering my PC to this phone every once in awhile when I need to see something on a bigger screen.

 

There was definitely a. Of adjustment in not looking at the big screen every day or two for surfing. Probably took me three or four months I would say before I was comfortable with it.

 

If I could get my home internet back in play for something in the range of 50 ish then I probably would do it but I'm okay with the way things are for the most part.

 

 

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

I'm reading it. You made it.

 

 

I feel your pain there. I made a conscious decision back almost a year ago to get rid of my home hard-wired internet because it was costing me $86 per month for something I was barely using.

We had already had no cable for quite a while before that.

 

I switched to Verizon and I was very happy with the changeover. I now have the capability of tethering my PC to this phone every once in awhile when I need to see something on a bigger screen.

 

There was definitely a. Of adjustment in not looking at the big screen every day or two for surfing. Probably took me three or four months I would say before I was comfortable with it.

 

If I could get my home internet back in play for something in the range of 50 ish then I probably would do it but I'm okay with the way things are for the most part.

 

 

 

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

well, this is T-mobile and about 140 for three phones and unlimited internet. I think the only way netflix would work is to down load the movies and then watch them because of cell tower coverage. We will see