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I've been living the #vanlife for the past year and though this would be great for my MacBook, cellular Hotspot data plan caps (50GB usually) will need to be up
by russellbeattie 3y ago
I've been living the #vanlife for the past year and though this would be great for my MacBook, cellular Hotspot data plan caps (50GB usually) will need to be updated. I actually have two SIMs/phones to serve as hotspots because of this. If Apple does launch this feature, I would bet it comes with some special carrier announcements as well.
5G is truly like living in the future, but there's nothing like forgetting to disconnect and having your Mac think it's on real WiFi and happily download some massive update in the background using up a sizeable chunk of data, leading to the dreaded over the limit text message. Same for Office, Chrome and a bunch of other stuff I've tried to track down, but something always seems to slip through.
Here's a pro tip: Non-hotspot cellular data on AT&T is actually really unlimited without slowdown after 50GB, and doesn't contribute to the hotspot data cap. My 5G Samsung can cast its screen to laptops or a Samsung tablet (which I also have). I thus realized when I'm streaming movies at night, I can just do it on my phone using cellular data and cast the result to the larger tablet screen in full HD (like you can to a TV) and not worry about the data caps.
(BTW, there are Android hacks which try to get around the carrier hotspot flag/detection to avoid the caps, but the carriers seem to be packet sniffing so they don't really work.)