Complete wifi network

[Perfecting Sin]

My aunt lives out in the country. She uses a Verizon Jetpack to network her house. It works pretty good. She is using 20GB data a month, and sometime she goes over her limit. It is my understanding that any data transfer across the jetpack is charged as data usage. To transfer pics from phone to tablet. Printing and so on... My thought was to use a range extender with a ethernet out and plug it in as an internet source into another router and set up a completely different in home wireless system that wouldn't cost her anything to transfer data from place to place in-house. Would this work and is there a better way?

 

[USAFRet]

It is my understanding that any data transfer across the jetpack is charged as data usage.

No, it should not be like that.
The only data that should count against the 20GB cap is data into and out of the house. Not internally.

Verify, in the contract, what the actual deal is.

 

[Perfecting Sin]

I have tried to verify. No one knows for sure. Including Verizon sales and tech support. I will have to look at the contract I guess. The only definitive answer I have received was that it charges.

 

[USAFRet]

I have tried to verify. No one knows for sure. Including Verizon sales and tech support. I will have to look at the contract I guess. The only definitive answer I have received was that it charges.

I don't see how they could count internal data from one device to another.

If that were the case, I'd be WAY over that limit in the first day of every month at 2AM. My system does an automated backup every morning at 2AM, of the C drive to another PC on the LAN. Full or differential, depending on day of the week. That all goes through the router.

 

[Perfecting Sin]

I just want to make sure we are on the same page. The network she uses is a cel phone, iPad and a printer all connected through the jetpack. There is no router there are no cables. It is a completely wi-fi network. As I understand it, the jetpack is just a hot spot. I'm guessing the the router part of it works through Verizon's system somehow which is why all the data across it gets counted as data usage. If I'm wrong that's fine. No one has been able to explain this to me though.

 

[USAFRet]

I just want to make sure we are on the same page. The network she uses is a cel phone, iPad and a printer all connected through the jetpack. There is no router there are no cables. It is a completely wi-fi network. As I understand it, the jetpack is just a hot spot. I'm guessing the the router part of it works through Verizon's system somehow which is why all the data across it gets counted as data usage. If I'm wrong that's fine. No one has been able to explain this to me though.

Right. In this scenario, the jetpack IS the 'router'. It serves up internal addresses to the printer, iPad, etc.
Correct, I think?

Anyway, read through this:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/814971

It should NOT treat data from one internal device to another (printing) as 'billable data'.
You need to find someone in the Verizon chain who can actually verify this. And have them provide that info to you in writing, yea or nay.

 

[Perfecting Sin]

What we have is not a router. It is a hotspot. The Verizon Jetpack mobile hotspot. Which charges every bit of data that touches it. As per Verizon. What we should have is the Verizon 4G LTE Broadband router. Which is a router that creates an internal network and only charges internet usage when you are sending things over the internet. While the hotspot is capable of networking things together that is not it's original design. Also as per Verizon. Thanks for all your help.