I want to get one of those routers you can put the sim card in. They are like 699 on amazon but im imagining or lets you take your snap cell phone card out and use it as a network router
Mostly i wanna know can you use your cell phone sim card to network your house?
Your SNAP cell account likely wonât support this use.
Doesnât your phone have a hotspot setting? Can a WiFi extender help?
I googled it apparently it works
Your phone has data
Turn on WiFi hotspot
Get a WiFi extender
Connect it to your phones hotspot
Internet for the whole house
I may be wrong but Google said itâs possible
I use my phone for internet hotspot. Im looking to buy a wall mounted tablet to become a home phone and wifi hotspot. My cell will work on wifi only.
It depends on if the account for the SNAP SIM card supports that kind of data use.
Yea thatâs true. Some cellphones canât do the whole hotspot thing esp if theyâre the value brand. My old provider didnât.
Thereâs also the fact that SNAP plans are likely basic plans with very limited data. One Windows update would wipe out your data for a month.
USB internet Tethering is also an option,
Connect your phone to your laptop and select USB internet tethering and use the laptop as hotspot.
Great point dude!
I mostly needed to have a router to hook up to my comcast and ring doorbell a nintendo switch. I think you can hook those up without internet
I have 5G home internet. More reliable than cable.
This might suit your needs better. It is a federal program to get free wireless internet into homes that need it.
@PikaTchu What are you trying to accomplish by having such a router?
If you can get landline connections then that may be a better choice.
I live out in the country and have a Netgear MR 1100, and it works well for my home internet. I can share what I have learned about the process if you want to know more.
If you have a smart phone with a internet access plan you could use that as well as a wifi hotspot with internet access. Some mobile plans come with less âshared hotspot dataâ as a limitation to your overall plan when you connect to outside devices. Say you have 25 GB of overall data, but only 5 GB of shared hotspot data, so when you use any of your data outside of the main cellular device it will be limited to just that 5 GB of the main 25 GBs that you can use on the plan overall for the main device.
You can use a application like âPDA net+â to circumvent the data restriction in these sort of plans, but it may require you to use a cable instead of using wifi to connect the other devices to your internet connection.
If you want to use your connection for peer to peer connections, such as online multiplayer games, then you would have to plan the connection for that. For example I found that At&T will block the peer to peer connections on mobile plans through their own means, resulting in a NAT type D, which will stop those connections in online games.
I never cease to be amazed at the computer knowledge of my fellow forumers.
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