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I was actually thinking of this recently. People have: * unlimited minutes, * limited mobile data, * many don't use their home phone, and * their home inter

by jolmg 8y ago

I was actually thinking of this recently. People have: * unlimited minutes, * limited mobile data, * many don't use their home phone, and * their home internet is rate limited instead of data limited So, what's stopping anyone (besides know-how) from getting unlimited (albeit slow) data by making a call to one's home computer, and using it as a proxy to get access to one's home internet service from anywhere? All one needs is something to hookup their home computer to a phone-line.

zozbot123 8y ago
The data is so slow in modern-day terms that it wouldn't make a dent in their mobile-data cap anyway. We're talking 9600 baud, or 9.6kbps, for data over the mobile voice channel. Now, SSH'ing (or RDP'ing, for that matter) to their home pc over mobile data and doing data-intensive tasks through that channel is something that should be a lot more common than it is.
cr0sh 8y ago
Hmm - I just recently picked up a couple of TRS-80 Model 100 machines... ...and I am pretty certain I still have one or two old MultiTechs. I need another project like I need a hole in my head.
Arbalest 8y ago
Fair use agreements usually. You'd probably have someone asking "Are you using your personal plan for business use" or similar.
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago
  Are they listening to the content of my phone calls? Because if not, I'm just a guy who has talks on the phone a lot. I know people who talk on the phone for hours and hours. Doing so should be well within the realm of normal consumer use!
- jolmg 8y ago
  I can't think this would be very useful business-wise. The more likely uses I'm thinking of are when you need something from the internet in an emergency and you don't have anymore data for the month, or when your internet-needs can be satisfied with a terminal and you want to save those extra bucks every month.
wolrah 8y ago
Back in college I did exactly this. It was 2004, I couldn't afford a data plan, but my school had a dialup service for resnet and I had free nights+weekends on my cell phone. I spent a lot of family RV trips in the passenger seat with my laptop using my cell phone as an analog modem over Bluetooth, getting free internet access at 9600 bits per second (nominally, slower in reality) browsing with images disabled because otherwise it was just unusable.

by jolmg 8y ago

zozbot123 8y ago

The data is so slow in modern-day terms that it wouldn't make a dent in their mobile-data cap anyway. We're talking 9600 baud, or 9.6kbps, for data over the mobile voice channel. Now, SSH'ing (or RDP'ing, for that matter) to their home pc over mobile data and doing data-intensive tasks through that channel is something that should be a lot more common than it is.

cr0sh 8y ago

Hmm - I just recently picked up a couple of TRS-80 Model 100 machines... ...and I am pretty certain I still have one or two old MultiTechs. I need another project like I need a hole in my head.

Arbalest 8y ago

Fair use agreements usually. You'd probably have someone asking "Are you using your personal plan for business use" or similar.

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
Are they listening to the content of my phone calls? Because if not, I'm just a guy who has talks on the phone a lot. I know people who talk on the phone for hours and hours. Doing so should be well within the realm of normal consumer use!
jolmg 8y ago
I can't think this would be very useful business-wise. The more likely uses I'm thinking of are when you need something from the internet in an emergency and you don't have anymore data for the month, or when your internet-needs can be satisfied with a terminal and you want to save those extra bucks every month.

wolrah 8y ago

Back in college I did exactly this. It was 2004, I couldn't afford a data plan, but my school had a dialup service for resnet and I had free nights+weekends on my cell phone. I spent a lot of family RV trips in the passenger seat with my laptop using my cell phone as an analog modem over Bluetooth, getting free internet access at 9600 bits per second (nominally, slower in reality) browsing with images disabled because otherwise it was just unusable.