John Hilley
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We will be in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Czech Republic for three weeks in April and May. We are looking for a data SIM or hotspot for 4G Internet. Are there any proven suggestions?
VallAndMo said:Howdy John,
It's been a long time, but FWIW in 2011 we toured Germany with a pair of SIMcards from Blau.de; we ordered them from a seller in the german eBay (eBay.de) and had them delivered to the company we picked our rental motorhome from (McRent). It all worked out perfectly.
Hope this helps,
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Vall.
John Hilley said:We rented a Globe Bus from McRent in2007. We were the first to rent it and it only had 7km on it. It was a great experience.
I had an Android phone at the time (a TMobile G2) and it already supported hotspot mode (as I believe all phones support today), so I put the simcard on it and shared its internet with our laptops. Wife also had a Blau simcard on her phone to operate as a backup and just so we could call each other in case we got separated. Her phone at the time was a simple feature phone so no hotspot mode, but after the gigabytes were used on my card we swapped and then used up hers.did you put the SIM in a phone or HotSpot?
If you have a Pixel you will love Fi. My bill last month was $23. Next month will be even cheaper since someone signed up and gave me a referral. If you sign up with a referral you save $20 and so does the referrer. Great system.John Hilley said:Thanks for all the replies. Last year we went to Italy. I have Verizon and did do the $10/day plan. Last year I had a Motorola Turbo 2. this year I have a Pixel 2 XL so will look into FI.
I ordered a GlocalMe HotSpot from Amazon. I will give it a try. I can always use the Verizon $10/day plan. i usually use my Tablet. I used the B&B WiFi quite a bit.
OBX said:You don't say who your current provider is. T-Mobile has great options for customers to where you may not need a different SIM... The other providers may as well. I'm a T-Mobile customer and had good luck in Germany a few years ago. My daughter did well in Spain. Research your service provider first. You may be able to pay for some additional services if necessary. We used mostly text and data.