[Cialug] OT: Cheapest Internet

Scott Yates Scott at yatesframe.com
Mon Oct 20 12:39:13 CDT 2014


Whoops, Tim is correct.  I miss-remembered the free amount per month.
 200MB.

Thanks for the correction!

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure about the 500MB amount, but my 14 inch HP Chromebook had 200MB per
> month of T-Mobile 4g data for free.  Here's one for $230
>
> http://www.amazon.com/HP-14-Q039wm-Turquoise-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B00KTHV9UY/ref=psdc1_t1_B00FGOTBQO_B00KTHV9UY
>
> Ankeny has pretty good t-mobile 4g coverage.
>
> Tim Champion
> timchampion at gmail.com
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > You can find chromebooks with 500mb free per month, and pay as you go
> with
> > reasonable rates.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, my wife’s grandmother, in her mid-80’s, is getting upgraded. She
> has
> > > an old tower Windows 98 or ME computer with giant CRT. We just moved
> her
> > > into a small condo in Ankeny and I’m giving her a laptop.
> > >
> > > She’s been fine for over 80 years without the Internet, but she did say
> > > she’d like to try it sometime. Really, she just uses the computer to
> play
> > > card games. I was thinking that if she had the Internet she could play
> > more
> > > games and maybe even do other things like check the news and try out
> > social
> > > media.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any suggestions on super cheap Internet that doesn’t
> require
> > a
> > > long commitment?
> > >
> > > Yes, I checked, none of her neighbors has wifi, so I can’t offer them a
> > > little money to piggy back off of their Internet.
> > > --
> > > Matthew Nuzum
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> > >
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> > >
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