We buried Skyroam...

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 for service from AT&T through Millenicom. 

Why thru Millenicom? Cuz it costs less than going direct to AT&T. We will have unlimited and unthrottled 4G internet access (includes 3G for what it's worth). Well... unlimited & unthrottled to the extent the towers don't get over-loaded with users accessing the AT&T wireless service for the same reason we are. No, it's not 5G- that will have to be a later change. But this will get us through a summer of travel and another winter season of over-whelmed WiFi service from the park.

If we could travel with it we would have tried to sign up with StarLink. StarLink is Elon Musk's version of internet access for remote locations. Unfortunately that service doesn't allow movement away from your initial location... no roaming. If we decide to have no travel RV, StarLink may well be a viable choice.

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