My dad is 90, wheel chair bound, but still has enough dexterity to use his computer keyboard/mouse and remote control for TVs. That's about it. So, these two things are his way outside his facility. I have been teaching him to use more audio controlled features of his chromebook, as well as his FireTV remote, and his Alexa. This seems to be working for him. He has 100% mental capacities.
The issue is internet capabilities. There is no internet service from a major provider in these facilities because they assume nobody has any brains left. There is Guest wifi but it is atrocious, unstable and cannot sustain video (2-3 up/2-3 down)
Getting the facility to work with a Spectrum or whomever else is darn near impossible to formally obtain service in a specific room.
I got him an ATT mobile hotspot, 50GB plan to see how it would go. It is not a 5g one, so the speed is not great but doing ok for him now. The killer is - after 2-3 weeks he is already at 60+GB usage. He watches about 4-5 hours of TV per day (sometimes all streaming versus the OTA signals he gets), and he does have Alexa playing music a lot, but that is it. Hard to imagine he is using that much data, but here we are. We can move to the 100GB plan but that is trending like it won't be enough. The overages are killer.
Anyone have any recommendations here? Seems like most major wireless carriers want everything tied to a phone, which he doesn't need.
The issue is internet capabilities. There is no internet service from a major provider in these facilities because they assume nobody has any brains left. There is Guest wifi but it is atrocious, unstable and cannot sustain video (2-3 up/2-3 down)
Getting the facility to work with a Spectrum or whomever else is darn near impossible to formally obtain service in a specific room.
I got him an ATT mobile hotspot, 50GB plan to see how it would go. It is not a 5g one, so the speed is not great but doing ok for him now. The killer is - after 2-3 weeks he is already at 60+GB usage. He watches about 4-5 hours of TV per day (sometimes all streaming versus the OTA signals he gets), and he does have Alexa playing music a lot, but that is it. Hard to imagine he is using that much data, but here we are. We can move to the 100GB plan but that is trending like it won't be enough. The overages are killer.
Anyone have any recommendations here? Seems like most major wireless carriers want everything tied to a phone, which he doesn't need.
