I want some coffee!

Pretty much as expected, the AT&T service was easy-peasey and worked well. That is to say it worked as advertised. The box from Millenicom containing the router arrived about 2:30 Monday (note to Millenicom: a package isn't shipped till you actually get it shipped!). It was up and running by 2:32. I opened the box, found & installed the SIM card, plugged in the router's power adapter to the outlet and without doing a single thing it was connected to AT&T. Beginning to end was about 2 minutes. Setup effort was zero. Nada. So... 3 cheers for Millenicom and AT&T!! And most important we made it through two 51-minute episodes of Poirot without buffering one time. It just... worked!   Which wasn't a surprise as I had run Speedtest a few times to confirm all was well- Latency = 70 msec Download = > 20 MBps Upload = 1.1 MBps (terrible! may be a router-location issue) Next test will be to find a safe location on the Vegas and see how it does outside the park. An...

I loved the Skyroam concept but the implementation fell short of the miracle (!) it promised. So on 30 Apr I asked Millenicom, the Oregon-based service that re-sells Skyroam's world-wide internet access, to cancel the subscription before we hit another 30 day cycle.  Our experience was that we would be disconnected regularly- about 5 pm on Wednesday. Seemed to be the weekly anniversary of when we first activated the service. I'd call Millenicom and they would call Skyroam, then Skyroam would reconnect us. My sense of it was that Skyroam felt they were doing us a favor by reconnecting our router. Enough. And the support tech mentioned we weren't the only ones that had suffered regular disconnects. Our park-provided internet access here in Benson is still limited in bandwidth even with the significant drop in snowbirds who have left for their summer homes... whatever we're watching will have to buffer a few times before the episode/video is over. So I have now signed up f...