Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I still feel like I should be able to sue AT&T for claiming my hotspot is “unlimited,” but after 15 gb it drops to double digit kbps. Seems like that’s a pretty hard limit

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  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      And some douchebag could come in and say “um, actually, it’s always going to be limited because the internet speed isn’t infinite” as if the 3TB my mobile data is capable of downloading at full speed is at all comparable to the 0.05TB I can get after they rate limit me

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yep, lack of broadband in this AirBnB I’m staying in is the only reason I was using it as a hotspot in the first place. The speed here is about the speed they’d throttle it at. I kind of had to fork over the $15 or deal with slow internet one way or the other.

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  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, I didn’t pick it. My mother is paying. And when I asked my mother if she looked to see on the AirBnB ad if this place had high speed internet, she said, “other ads did, but this one didn’t.” Sigh.

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