Millenicom

I've been traveling so much, and so spontaneously, lately that I finally had to break down and get a wireless service that we could take with us.   After a lot of research, mostly reading comments by truckers in the forums they use to fill each other in, I concluded that Millencom was the best one to try.  Although it didn't work at all in Kingman, Arizona, most of the places we've hit throughout California have good coverage.

I like the little white USB "dongle" thingee which blinks blue when the signal is there, but has sort of a rainbow color that flashes when the signal is really really good.  It is fast down here in the Inland Empire. 

I bought the thingee because the whole trip about having to return it intact if discontinuing the service was too scary.  It cost half as much to buy as to lose.  I lose things.  Then when I find them later, which is inevitable, it is too late.  Like my 2nd to last TracFone, for instance.  You all know I use a Helio (now Virgin) Ocean Smart Phone for just about everything, but they say in their ad not to call it a phone, and although the signal and voice quality are really good, in truth, for yacking on the phone, I'd rather have my sleek little Motorola flip phone in my pocket than the beloved but clunky Ocean.  It feels more like a phone.  It doesn't take as good pictures, but my camera of choice is still the Canon Powershot Digital Elph.  So I lost the TracFone and bought a replacement and then came down here and guess what?  No signal.