You have several options: Get an ipad with built in LTE Have a phone with LTE capabilities already and use this as hotspot I personally have an iPad with built in LTE/4G. It works wonderfully. In reality, you can make your smartphone a hotspot and share the mobile signal when you are in an area where wifi is not available. Although the iPad with LTE is about $100 more expensive than the same iPad without, the cell providers like AT&T make it just as expensive to use your smart phone as a hotspot as to activate the LTE service on your ipad. If you want two units that allow you to browse the internet anywhere, get an iPad with LTE. You should be able to add service to the unit from the cell phone carrier that you only pay for when you use it. Mine is part of the mobile share plan for my cell phone so apart from the activation fee, it does not cost me more to use. The iPad with LTE does have an addition functionality which is the upgraded GPS capability so that you can use it as a GPS more accurately. Regarding Android versus Apple, Android is more susceptible to virus because of its open source nature and the fact its Android app store is more prevalent. There are more android users than apple users. Having said that, I think you should go to a best buy or somewhere like that where you can look at both machines and determine which ones work for you. Usability is a huge factor for me. Let money be a secondary consideration. I agree with Rococogurl about the future compatibility of the tablet you pick. Androids don't update much of the Operating System where Apple products are compatible, based on previous history, for about 4 major releases of the OS. This translates to about 3years of support on the existing hardware. I work in IT and implement technologies that use both Android and Apple ecosystems. Good luck!

I'm going to try Bugspop1's suggestions. I have Xfinity1 and ATT routers, so it may be perilous and require calling them again for help. Also both routers have been replaced in the past 2 weeks because of other problems: The ATT router suddenly and mysteriously stopped allowing any telephone caller ID and calling features...the technician who replaced the router said he didn't know why this happened or what caused it. ATT provides 3 mbps speed, which is (from my experience) not fast enough for Amazon video, so we use ATT mainly when Xfinity isn't working. We have just one phone connected to ATT. The Xfinity/Comcast router was replaced last week because of tv issues. I got fed up with the poor service on the last cable boxes. All channels not HD were stretched to fit the format of our HD tvs. So all the people on tv look like they weigh 500 lbs. Comcast refused for months to provide info to change this in the setup menu of the cable box. So after hours on the phone to them and several trips to their store, we now have tv that shows HD and SD in the proper formats. I also had to accept yet another phone line from Comcast, their bundle, to save money. Their internet/tv bill was $270. The new bill including phone is now supposed to be $190. The stupid downside to this is the Comcast rep said I have to call Comcast on the phone number they provide, otherwise they won't provide any support. I already have 4 phone numbers so this is very annoying to me. After the cable boxes were replaced the internet router was reset by Comcast when they set up the cable boxes. That evening I logged in to the xfinity web site and saw that some videos would play and others wouldn't. CNN wouldn't play anything at all (though accessing the site outside of the xfinity portal allows some videos to play). So I called up Xfinity support who weren't helpful at all. They actually said they don't support video playback help issues on their own site! So their support is less than adequate imho. I tried the suggestions about changing video quality...Amazon works ok in SD. In HD videos start off in very poor quality and gradually get better. I don't use amazon streaming when I'm out of town because the site only streams in HD and would quickly use up my data allowance. Windows Defender is up to date. Nvidia has automatically updated it's drivers several times since I got the MSI laptop. The MSI also did the update where it installed a new version of Win10 (It took about 17 hours). There isn't any software in common on the two laptops. I tried a system restore on the MSI. It didn't help, but it didn't hurt. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe flash several times. If I can get inside the router setup menus is it easy to figure out if the routers are allowing adobe flash video? I'll keep working on this....

In the case of the ransomware if you have your backup drive or device connected to the computer then the backup gets infected also. That has been the case for many. I suggest that you disconnect from the computer or network your backup device when not actively doing a backup. It is not just porn sites these days that was true years ago, the hackers and malware writers have progressed much beyond that. It's never a good idea to think it can never happen to me. Zero day exploits happen all the time on all kinds of places and before our protection software has been able to add definitions to the program to protect us. It happens every day to people who do have knowledge and protection. Spend some time on the help sites and you quickly realize that it can and does happen to anyone. Including Apple products. And also but rarely some versions of Linux.

@bengz6westmd "I was prb'ly visiting it on Windows" If I understand correctly, the sites had their databases (on their computers) broken into. Nothing you, an AV, or a browser could have done to prevent that. (just use reasonably complex passwords and don't reuse them on other sites, especially your bank, eBay, Amazon, etc.) I assume they used a mysql injection attack? At Houzz (and probably the same at the mint forum), the passwords were well encrypted and "salted" (to make them unique) so it would likely take an unreasonably long time to crack any but the simplest passwords. I've never tried to hack, ethically or otherwise so I don't fully understand, so may not be getting it totally correct. I run mysql (and apache2 and php) in Linux for my own use. Is it vulnerable? Maybe. It's kept up-to-date but I'm not a security minded coder, just an amateur, so possibly my code has holes. But it's not exposed to the web. Not that anyone would care to dump my movie database anyway. :-) Off topic but... If you're adventurous and/or bored and have php-cli:Output looks something like this: Not exactly what I use but taken from it. Don't pass a length and get 32 characters. Pass it a length and get that many characters. Characters are taken from the "chars" array which can be modified to include only characters that most sites accept.