What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    6 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.

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      6 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.

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        Jokes on them, I have a 512GB micrSD card and I use Termux to archive videos through YT-DLP.

        • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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          6 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
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        6 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.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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.