Internet access via a cell phone on a laptop

Know what ya mean about the air card, mine was as slow as dialup.

Wow Dan 25 dollars a month is pretty nice! Is that with all the tax included? I might wanna switch my cell service over?

I just got one of the Majicjacks for plugging a phone into a computer. Its the other way around. What it does is for 20 dollars a year unlimited calling, even long distance and a year later just pay'em 20 more dollars. It uses a computers existing internet connection to plug a home/house phone into and provides a nifty usb adapter thingy to plug the phone into. Windows 7 automatically loaded the program and the drivers!

Been loving it so far the calls are surprisingly clear can't complain any. I am on day two right now with it tho.

I just bought a cheep cordless phone set the Vtech DECT6.0 and the Mj. My buddy let me try his MJ kit for a couple of days. Trusting fellow lol Ha It works flawlessly here on my internet connection. So I took the plunge! Was just now registering this one I read Internationale calls are extra. For me no biggie. No more loosing track of my cell minutes anymore!


Here is a thought was just wondering if your phone will chain the whole darn thing together? Ha Ha

How fast was your internet connection through that phone? Will it play You tube fluently?

Well with seeing that video. I will be off to go fishing soon lol. That is a beautiful place wish I could get out there sometime.

I did more reading about the M.J. Easy way to use magicJack without usb dongle... | magicJack and MagicJack Plus Unofficial Support Have not made it through all the reading yet. You don't even have to plug in the usb dongle with it there is a sweat hack that will put it onto the computer you are using.

Then just use a head set or plug a mike into the said computers mic port running the comp speakers. Wala! no phone and no dongle! Don't even have to carry it with you. These folks said they put it on there spare computers and it worked.

The Vtech DECT6.0 phone was to quite at times speaker phone or normal and I got good hearing. Gonna return it was disappointing. I had a normal wired home phone to compare it to. No comparison the wired did way better. I am using for ten bucks more and have to phones hand sets. Plus the Ni cad batteries are just normal two AAA rechargeables Panasonic KX TG6512B DECT 60 Plus Digital 2 Handset Cordless Phone BlackSilver by Office Depot

This one is much better. I have not found any problems with it yet. Sorta a his and hers phone can keep them nicely across the house. The sound quality is more stable too all though the speaker phone could be better. Its Solid like the Lan wired old school one tho.

I am pretty savvy with these comps lately. More especially after doing a lot of linux study for the last couple of years .

I bought the M.J. they gave me the first year of membership free! So this ditty could have done around 50 dollars total for me if I really had to and ran it until July 4 2012. Pretty Kewl.

Funny you said cartoons lol lol lol I tried to get a custome Phone # Looked for an hour too ''THE TICK'' but it was already taking

YouTube - ‪The Tick - Pilot‬‏

I use my sprint phone for my internet and voice calls. On 4G I get 3.89 Mbps with the wifi connection. About 1.10 Mbps on the 3G through the wifi. I pay $110 a month. $69 for the everything data plan with 400 minutes talk but all calls to any cell phone on any carrier is not charged against the 400 minutes and I have nights and weekends. No limit on the data downloaded. I pay an extra $30 a month to use my phone as a wireless hotspot so I can connect up to 5 computers to it. Not too bad.

Be careful if You have verizon... They just dumped the unlimited Data and itll cost you more for 4 hours of surfing via your cell phone then two china girl kits

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Not having a disk drive on this mini laptop and not being able to get Ubuntu on a usb drive, was about to give up. Had already downloaded it onto here. But then tried to look up how to load it on a memory card. I had one in the new cell phone. Could not get it to "drag and drop" in the file. (Ubuntu can not be directly downloaded and installed)

So then tried "Copy and Paste" IT WORKED! Took less then an hr to set up and laptop is working great. Now duel boots with either Windows 7 or Ubuntu.

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Man that's really Kewl Dan. Some of this OS stuff is a pain in the butt to set up. Which version distro are you running? For the Adobe Flash and other codecs. Go to the console ''located at drop down menu accessories terminal'' It is simple Just Type ''sudo apt-get update'' first then enter wait after type '' sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras '' Put this in your console hit enter type your personal pass word if it asks then wait. It is very interesting watch that screen will be very busy! After it does it's thing You Tube, Hulu and a pretty big list of codecs will start working perfectly! https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

If there is a agree to choice that shows up during the update on some net books and lap tops the button with the old school windows flag insignia is the tab button. Hit tab hit enter. You can also find Restricted extras in the software center. I like the console better.

I use VideoLAN - VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! on Windows and linux it will play just about every video codec there is.


Also check here http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/ubuntu-software-center It is in your menu drop down list tons of stuff here from open source.

Unfortunately when ever I Google for a tutorial for you they want to tell a guy to install some program. You can manually clean out that windows 7 and make it run really good. As fast as the Ubuntu me thinks. This link sorta say's what I mean but a guy can definitely mess things up here big time if they don't know what they are doing. How to Clean the Registry Manually | An Waray Blogger

I would recommend every bloatware spam program they stuck from the factory you are not using to consider uninstalling. After that perhaps use a program like Malwarebytes : Free anti-malware, anti-virus and spyware removal download it takes it about an hour to do a full scan. For best odds run it in safe mode.

I just remembered something else VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY if you are on a new distro of Windows even 7 it will try to update Windows in the back ground and you may not even know it is happening at the time. It's times like these that a Windows OS will run very sluggish especially at the internet browser. Sometimes with a Windows OS it is just good to walk away from it and let it run when this happens.


When Ubuntu updates you can set it to go automatically or manually. You will notice that computer OS is never sluggish like the other during this process. That's the way it has been for me anyway.

I had a normal version phone plan with the data plan. But the data was for a very small amount, half a gig a month. So I upgraded to the unlimited data plan and began downloading patches and mods for a game I play. It was about 25 gigs worth. It worked way faster than my home line or the download speed at work.

Then I got my phone bill. Some how the two departments had a failure to communicate. I was still on my old plan of 500mb. They charge $.25 per mb over that limit. My phone bill was for $5,800.00 . They fixed it, but dang be careful when tethering your laptop, and beware what plan you have before you begin.