I doubt I can help. I have tried Skype over 3G and it wasn't very good.
I just got a
www.clear.com device off of ebay and I was considering that as a back-up pay as you go service. Connections to Clear's website (free) seemed pretty fast. I could do that without signing up. They offer day and hourly passes, but I don't know the cost. They also offer limited and unlimited bandwidth and some home/on the go options. I'm not on the go often, but tit would be nice. I can tether to my phone using PDANET and my cell phone provider. Lost the unlimited.
I'd like to be able to have a WIMAX internet backup, but for now tethering to the cell or using the cell will work in an emergency. I just wouldn't have access to printing.
I have Verizon DSL at 3 Mb/s down/ 760 kb/s up. Usually it's good and pristine. Tonight, not so good, but I've been messing with my wiring. Just hope they weren't messing with theirs. I wonder if I got downgraded. Verizon has been screwing up lately anyway.
i can check easy enough. I can't complain until I go to a minimalist connection.
I am using a splitter rather than filters and who knows, maybe Sandy got my speed accidently lowered. It could possibly be wiring issues. I flunk the large packet ping. Not good.
Do you know that you can get DSL on a line without dial tone. Maybe that's an option.
Now you can also get routers that can fail over or aggregate bandwidth and have 3G backup.