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.
Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt’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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But most users don’t.
mp3@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Jokes on them, I have a 512GB micrSD card and I use Termux to archive videos through YT-DLP.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 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.