Hi Richard. I faced a similar situation although a bit differently a few months ago. The only WISP in the area announced they were shutting down the present service which ran at 512 kbps and would offer upgrades to a new service that runs 10 Mbps. Fine, but what they did not say officially was that anyone outside of five miles from the towers they would implement the new service on would be out of range and thus no service.
My remaining choices for the network here at the farm were satellite or cellular. Our phones are with US Cellular and the other options were Verizon or AT&T. After speaking with the USCC agent I opted for their 20 GB/mo shared service between the two cell phones and an LTE router for the farm office head end. While the data plan is $140/mo, the agent used loyalty discounts to arrive at a price of about $200/mo for four devices (two smart phones, the LTE router, and a plain flip phone) which was equivalent to our old cell plan plus the former WISP charge per month. With the shared data plan our smart phones now have hotspot capability enabled and I have had no issues using my Motorola Electrify M as a USB tether with Debian 8. Network manager picks it right up and away I go with 'Net access where I don't have access to WiFi. The phone is running Android Kit Kat. I have also used an ipad mini (supplied by my employer) as a USB tether as well. If you don't use Network manager you may need to do some manual network configuration, but just be sure that the plan you go with allows USB (and probably WiFi) tethering and you should be good to go. Perhaps even try it in the store to be sure. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150617213841.gb14...@n0nb.us
