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people very often need to setup their own WAP because cellular providers sell metered connections on the order of GB/month, whereas comcast (the most prevalent
by kbar13 6y ago
people very often need to setup their own WAP because cellular providers sell metered connections on the order of GB/month, whereas comcast (the most prevalent ISP in america) meters at TB/month. in addition, not every device currently has the radio / components necessary to receive cellular data
also there's the limitation that cellular providers often don't allow tethering (or more generally data access outside of the device the sim card is slotted in)
- abestic9 6y agoWhat I was getting at but forgot to include in my comment. Unfortunately it’s still a distant dream of mine that all carriers, fixed or mobile, would simply provide a dumb pipe billed based on max throughput and nothing more.