IWFA-40 new customer and service

If you're in a fringe area it most likely won't work well anyway, you need a good strong signal for them to work reliably. As far as plans this is a customer-based forum so we wouldn't have any plan information that's not online. 

Thanks for the reply.  Is there anything unique to the IWFA-40 that would be different from other hotspot plans indicted online?  Just hoping for basic indoor phone service paired with limited data and getting different answers.

Just the added phone service. There are others you can look at. Do you know if another carrier would give you a better signal? You could get just a hotspot but AT&T no longer sells wireless home phone only, others do.

We'd be more than happy to help explore plan options for mobile hotspot, comptech5218.

Special thanks to our ACE, spoom2, for their quick response.

Our first recommendation would be to view our PREPAID page for mobile hotspot. With PREPAID, you do have an option of getting 20 GB of data for $25 a month, since you're only doing lite data usage.

Our second recommendation would be to set up your mobile hotspot. 

Check your current plan

1. Do one of the following:
   • From att.com/myatt, select View my plan.
   • From att.com/prepaid, select Plans.
2. Choose See plan details or Plan details.
3. Look for Mobile hotspot:
   • Is it there? Great! You're good to go.
   • Don’t see it? Your current plan doesn’t support hotspots. Close Plan details and look for plans that do. Have AT&T PREPAID? Go to Add-Ons to check.

Our third recommendation would be review data only plans. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!  This really helps. 

It appears I have 3gb of hotspot data included on my current line/plan.  In order to check if the IFWA40 (or any other solution) is going to work at my rural location can I use the sim from my phone and place it in the device for testing?  

I'm pretty sure you have to activate it with the SIM that came with it.

See this topic for ways to activate your device. Here's the AT&T link

Let us give you the road map to setting up your IFWA-40 hotspot device, comptech5218.

That's a great question. As previously mentioned by our ACE, spoom2, you would just use the SIM that comes with the wireless hotspot device, once you purchase it. 

We recommend viewing our device support resource for setting up your IFWA-40 device. 

Before setting up your device, make sure you have completed the online activation process. Please see Activate phone, SIM card, or other device for more information.

1. TURN ON: From the back of the device, press the ON/OFF button.

2. CONNECT TO AT&T WIRELESS INTERNET: Connect your computer to the Wi-Fi network listed under Network Name on the bottom of the device.

3. Enter the password listed under Wi-Fi Password on the back of the device.

4. To manage your device after setup, go to http://attwirelessinternet. Enter the Login listed on the bottom of the device, then select LOGIN.

5. CONNECT PHONE: From the back of the device insert the phone cable into either of the PHONE ports.

Please let us know if you need further assistance, and we will kindly reach back out. Thanks again for contacting AT&T Community Forums!

Nelson, AT&T Community Specialist