It's not totally out of the question but from what I can see it would be prohibitively expensive after a while, whereas an upfront cost for some low-cost networking hardware that would then get its Internet connection from my home router would be much cheaper in the long run. I think.

I bought a huawei 4g mobile wifi device off ebay for about 25 quid earlier this year, and have a 3 sim card (the huawei device is branded 3 anyway, but they don't lock them) with 20Gb/mo data for 15/mo but you can get cheaper contracts since you don't need that much data. I run it from 12v, pretty sure you could mount it on an electric weelchair..

curious how much you are paying for 15GB / month? just wanted to compare with Canada.

sorry I forgot the pound sign don't show on HN ..its 15 pounds sterling per month for 20GB

ah no worries...just wanted to see how much we are behind the rest of the world.

so 15 pounds in CAD is ~ $25

so 15 pounds for 500mb/month in Canada...

You can pick up three sim cards prepaid with 12gb data for about £23 on occasional sales which last 12 months if you don't use the data.

If you're not using a lot of data a mobile phone is a great way to do it. Low end Android phones are cheap and surprisingly powerful. Prepaid phone plans are inexpensive.

ee pay as you go offers 100mb for 30 days for £3.

Gonna be hard to beat that, cost-wise, with anything reliable and covering a large area.

Cost-wise Three.co.uk/datareward is pretty good. 200mb free every month.