Background: My father-in-law is seriously ill. He lives 520 miles away. They don’t have Internet. I have a Verizon cell phone and null modem cable so I could use it as a modem, but the battery dies after 2 hours and I can’t talk on it when I’m using it as a modem, but it’s free after 9 PM and on weekends. We go up Fri afternoon and I can’t work in the car until we’re almost there, unless I want to waste my plan minutes. So I got a Verizon modem for my tablet pc and now I can get some work done during the 8 to 9 hour car rides. It’s really nice and well worth the $60 a month I’m paying for the service because I can earn it back working Fri afternoons.
My daughter came over from Ohio with her toddler and husband to visit her grandfather and we all left Sunday afternoon. My daughter called my cell phone when we were a couple of hundred miles into VA on I81. They were about 90 miles inside Ohio (I80) and needed the phone number of a Chinese restaurant near their home so they could order take out. While I googled it, her husband called his brother to look it up in the phone book. I found it first – while flying down the highway at 75 MPH. Mucho cool.