@Tfmonkey

There used to be a way to plug in a USB into your computer & it would get internet connection anywhere that a cell phone would work

This was years ago

It would not involve paying to install stuff into your house

I do not know about the level of privacy or speed

Maybe you could get it as a back up internet connection or see if it is more reliable then the internet connection that involves installing stuff in your house

You could buy the device for very cheap at a cell phone store

they removed that feature.

I had this years ago. Port is gone.

@DMA @Tfmonkey

If I remember correctly it was much simpler it was a little tiny USB with nothing connected and it was cricket and you just stuck the USB in the computer then the internet would work

No big device like in your picture

It would use a cell phone signal and you paid for the device and it was not a cell phone and I am not talking about using your cell phone connection to access the internet

A lot of people told me cricket spied on people and that was how their prices were cheap

it plugged in usb. rest is a head set. radio shack sold it in 1999-2003

@DMA @Tfmonkey

The whole device was only a USB and nothing else the way I remember it or only shaped like a USB with no extra cords or wires or anything else

This might have been somewhere around 2008-2010 when I saw this thing

LAN usb?