Oh how I wish it was as easy as you make it sound. 
thanks. I spent 1 hour on the phone with Jude in tech support. He helped some but after we got off the phone, I charged the MIFi2200, put a new battery in and tried to use it. It works OK for about 10 minutes, the green service light slows down, and then goes into a regular slow blink. I know from past experience that this means my MacBook Pro will think the internet connection is gone and will shortly tell me. Well, it did. The blink stopped to a constant blink. One thin I think could be an issue is another customer rep replied to an email about all my troubles and told me when I update to the latest VZAccess Manager, connect the MIFI to the Mac, and follow the instructions on the display. She said there have been so many changes since I last did this in early 2010. I forgot to ask Jude about this so I tried it. It did not show any instructions when I opened VZAccess, but id did do some things that I have never seen the MIFI do, I guess because I never used it plugged into my Mac via the USB cable. It did do some kind of resetting but I now need a tech support to help me go through this reactivation to reset the MIFI to all the changes that have occurred since I last did something like this. I think the customer rep is on to something. I did push a clip into the back of the MIFI as Jude told me to when we hang up to reset and I was on the webpage http://192.132.1.1/ (numbers changed just in case), and when I pushed the pin in the back of the MIFi all the numbers in this admin setting website went to all 0'2 and waited a few minutes, they all reset, and the MiFI seemed to work better after that. I was reluctant to do that and finish it because I need tech support but there was something positive that happened. I think the reactivation the customer support lady told me to do will help but when I plugged the MIFI into the computer via the USB cable and opened VZAcess Manager, no instructions came up but I was able to get the "Old" data window that used to come up about a year ago with that version that tells me how much data I have used. I wondered what happened to that and it is unfortunate I have to plug the MiFI into the computer to get that data use window up. Without something that tells me how much I have used, it has been a pain, but actually I have been wasting about $60/mo because the MIFI has not worked long enough to let me use it for anything. The service lights just go OK and download for awhile but slow down, do a regular slow blink and stop but the service light stays on.
So I got some help but still I need more. I wish the email addy I send the email to, the way I got Jude, they would forward my email to Jude so he could follow up with me. I do not want to go through another tech support person because it really never works well, trying to use another person after I have done so much with Jude.
The MiFI was cool when I first got it about 5 years ago but worked for about 6 months (out on the porch) and then all these problems.
I do have 2 New Every Two and was thinking about a Droid X I think it is called but I have to use the $50 on a data device so I was looking at the 4G USB devices. But one map shows no 4G in Salt Lake City and one map shows a different shade of burgundy which someone on here told me means there is 4G in my area. The map that just has the red and white does not show 4G by the large circle with a yellow ring but one map Verizon uses has completely different colors.
If you can get Jude in the Internet Response Team to contact me, it would be great.
So what do I do use the $50 for the Droid X, (does the Droid X have Apps?) I think the phone is called or the $35 on a cell phone? The one Droid x phone gets great reviews (I hope I am using the right name for the device because it really has great reviews except the battery) and I was thinking seriously about getting one. I do not think I have to use the 4G if indeed it does have 4G or if I should go with the 3G iPhone that is new to Verizon.
