The carrier who’s paying for your traffic. You’re most likely going to use a lot more data on a computer than actually on your phone.
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mp3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Which is bullshit. Who cares if you download something at full speed on your phone or through the hotpot? A bit is a bit, doesn’t matter where it ends up when received by the phone’s modem.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uranium3006@kbin.social 11 months ago
The carrier who’s paying for your traffic.
soooo...... what's with the monthly bill then?
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean let’s be real, it’s incredibly complex and amazing technology. Borderline magic. And depending on where you are, yeah consistently using large amounts of bandwidth can and will impact other users.
So a policy like this makes sense, to a point. It’s when they auto charge you for hitting a “limit” that grinds my gears.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And I’m sure we can all acknowledge what would happen to prices if there were zero restrictions. A top budget blogger tip would be “stop paying for your expensive broadband service! Plug your phone in and tap “hotspot” in settings to save $50-$100 a month.“
Normies (grandmas using Facebook, not WFHers/gamers) would be frivolous to pay for two “equivalent” Internet services.
(Before you think me a corporate lobbyist, know I submitted a complaint to the FCC when Comcast first implemented broadband bandwidth caps in the USA. Saw that BS in Canada.)
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Less than it would be if they expected you to go full ham 24/7.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Username checks out.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a sneaky way of having a bandwidth cap without having a bandwidth cap. Mobile devices have smaller storage, so you’re less likely to use as much bandwidth compared to a laptop. Also a single device going to use less data than multiple devices sharing a hotspot.
mp3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Jokes on them, I have a 512GB micrSD card and I use Termux to archive videos through YT-DLP.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Was just going to say… my phone has 512GB storage and can do direct WiFi file transfer to my computer without a hotspot. All without using the mobile hotspot feature.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You can burn through a huge amount of data streaming 4K video on your phone without using any storage. You can also plug a 20TB USB hard drive into your phone, connect to a VPN and torrent away.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But most users don’t.