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krispos42

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14. You can do that but there's a data limit, I think

Reply to marble falls (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 26, 2017, 08:46 AM

Nov 2017

Might a well see what the cell phone companies can do for you. They might have a 4G router, for example. So you can have Wi-Fi in your house but it connects to the cell network instead of a cable modem.

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You can do that but there's a data limit, I think krispos42 Nov 2017 #14

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